What's New in Sustainability: Reporting CSRD (2025 release wave 2)

Overview

The video shows how Business Central supports CSRD and other ESG reporting standards. It covers the integration architecture between Business Central and an external ESG reporting Power App, the ESG Aggregation tool setup, the prerequisites, and demos of external tool setup, aggregation configuration, calculation, posting and data sync.

Data posted in Business Central is copied as facts into the matching place in the external tool, based on the chosen standard. The aggregation tool can also be used manually without the Power App, with CSRD preparation reports as a backup. The final export goes to Excel, with documentation for XBRL conversion. The presenter notes that standards are subject to change and that users need to understand what they are doing.

Key points

• The external ESG reporting tool is a Power App that needs at least one Power App license; the presenter says nothing additional has to be paid.
• Setup: connect Business Central to Dataverse (the data connection setup wizard can be used), enable data synchronization in Business Central (stated as mandatory), then enable data integration in Sustainability Setup, which connects and maps the sustainability tables.
• Number series for ESG standard reporting and for posted reporting are prerequisites in Business Central.
• Communication between Business Central and the external tool is bidirectional. Assessments created in the Power App become ESG reporting names, and their requirements become ESG reporting lines in Business Central.
• The ESG Aggregation Reporting page calculates values from several sources, with filters and formulas (multiply, divide, plus, minus, brackets), for example percentages.
• Sustainability ledger entries, including carbon equivalent data, can be mapped to reporting lines, with filters needed to separate scopes 1, 2 and 3. Not all lines are populated from Business Central, so some facts, such as risk assessments, need manual entry.
• The tool can be used without the Power App to prepare data for manual CSRD reporting, with CSRD preparation reports available on posted ESG reports.

Features

AL objects mentioned

As heard in the captions. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.

• table 6216 “Sustainability Ledger Entry” at 10:03
• table “ESG Reporting Name” at 9:12
• page “ESG Aggregation Reporting” at 3:35
• page 6221 “Sustainability Setup” at 4:32
• table “Sustainability Information” at 1:37
• report “CSRD Preparation Reports” at 14:43

Not found in BC28-30: table “ESG Reporting Name”, page “ESG Aggregation Reporting”, table “Sustainability Information”, report “CSRD Preparation Reports”.

Quotes

• 0:40 “the most important is to provide a regulatory compliance so for all companies who are supposed to report csrd or other esg”
• 0:54 “you can see here CSRD, SRS, BR, SR, so many different standards. With this functionality, now you will be a regulatory compliance.”
• 1:57 “we have birectional communication between these two tools”
• 2:32 “you must have power app license uh for this uh tool. So uh you do not need to pay anything additional.”
• 4:32 “Then in a business central you need to enable data synchronization. This is mandatory.”
• 13:01 “if you do not have power apply and if you do not want to use ESG external tool you can still use this functionality”
• 15:40 “everything what is posted there in a busy center will be copied as effects in an appropriate place uh based on a standard we”

Disclaimers in the video

• 3:08 subject-to-change: Of course these standards are subject of changes
• 4:59 other: Please be careful with that. You really need to understand what you’re doing

Presenters (as heard): Alexander Toto.