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Considering a consultant for AASB S2?
Three ways to run your first reporting cycle, what each one is right for, and a decision tree that settles it in five minutes.
Consultants and technology are partners here, not rivals. Five questions tell you your route.
The short answer
It depends on two things: whether your team can confidently interpret AASB S2, and whether it has the capacity to run the reporting cycle alongside its day job. If you have both, technology alone can carry the process. If you are new to the standard, need workshops facilitated, or want expert help preparing for assurance, bring in a consulting partner.
The two are not competing options. The most common route is hybrid: a consultant guides the judgement calls while Drova carries the process, the evidence and the audit trail. Consultants deliver on the platform, so nothing has to be rebuilt when they leave, and year two runs on what year one captured.
The decision tree below gets you to an answer in four questions.
Your three options, at a glance
Every AASB S2 programme comes down to who supplies the judgement and what carries the work. That gives you three routes.
A consulting partner
Expert judgement through your first cycle: interpreting the standard, facilitating workshops, closing gaps and preparing for assurance.
Hybrid, the most common route
A consultant guides the judgement calls while delivering on Drova, so the process and the evidence stay with you when they leave.
Option 1
Drova technology, for teams that know the standard
You do not need the standard explained; you need the work carried. Ideal for organisations that:
- Have the expertise, but need software to help do the work
- Want technology to suggest relevant risks, opportunities and next steps
- Need guided workflows across assessment, evidence and approvals
- Want a clear audit trail from assessment through to disclosure
- Need a repeatable system for year two and beyond
Option 2
A consulting partner, for expert guidance through year one
When the standard is new to your team, a partner supplies the judgement. Ideal for organisations that:
- Are new to AASB S2 or need additional capacity for their first reporting cycle
- Need executive, board and reporting-team education and engagement
- Want expert support interpreting AASB S2 and applying it to their business
- Need facilitated stakeholder, climate-risk and financial-materiality workshops
- Need specialist support establishing emissions baselines and a practical Scope 3 roadmap
- Want help closing gaps and preparing for external assurance
Option 3
Hybrid: expert guidance on the platform from day one
Consultants use Drova as the delivery platform, so you get their expertise and keep the process. Organisations choose it for:
- Reduced reliance on external help from year two
- A more efficient audit trail, with lower audit costs
- Less pressure on your internal resources
- Internal capability that builds during the engagement instead of leaving with the consultant
The decision tree
Four questions about expertise, capacity and comfort with the assurance process. Answer honestly and the route picks itself.
Download the decision tree (PDF) to work through with your team, or read it here.
Whichever route you choose, start it on the platform.
Evidence captured once, from day one.
If a consultant runs your first cycle on Drova, every workshop output, judgement and piece of evidence lands in the system as the work happens. Nothing is reconstructed at year end, assurance is verification rather than archaeology, and the tasks already set carry the process into year two.
Choosing your AASB S2 route: common questions
Can software replace a consultant for AASB S2?
They do different jobs. Software carries the process: the framework, evidence, approvals and audit trail. A consultant brings judgement: interpreting the standard for your business, facilitating workshops and preparing you for assurance. If your team already has that judgement in-house, technology alone is enough. If not, the answer is both, not either.
When is technology alone enough?
When your team can interpret AASB S2 requirements confidently, has capacity to coordinate climate risks, evidence and disclosures, and is comfortable running materiality assessments, governance documentation and board engagement internally. In that case what you need is a system to do the work in, not advice.
What does a hybrid engagement look like?
The consultant leads interpretation, workshops and gap closure while working inside Drova rather than in separate documents. Your team sees everything as it is built, evidence attaches to disclosures as the work happens, and when the engagement ends the process, the framework and the audit trail stay with you.
If we hire a consultant, do we still need Drova?
The risk with a consultant-only engagement is that the process lives in their spreadsheets and leaves when they do. Running the engagement on Drova means the work is captured once, in your system, and year two starts from the tasks and evidence already in place instead of starting again.
One platform for the framework, the evidence and the audit trail, whoever leads the work
