Data quality crucial for SASB metrics to be decision-useful?

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Data quality crucial for SASB metrics to be decision-useful?

Data quality is what makes SASB metrics useful for decision-making. When data are accurate, complete, timely, and comparable, investors can assess which sustainability issues are material to the company's financial performance and benchmark performance against peers and over time. Poor data erode credibility, obscure trends, and make it hard to compare companies, defeating the purpose of providing decision-useful information. Saying data quality is optional or limited to internal reporting misses the point that SASB metrics are aimed at external decision-makers who rely on reliable, quantitative, comparable data. Relying only on qualitative disclosures ignores the need for measurable metrics that allow apples-to-apples comparisons and risk assessment.

Data quality is what makes SASB metrics useful for decision-making. When data are accurate, complete, timely, and comparable, investors can assess which sustainability issues are material to the company's financial performance and benchmark performance against peers and over time. Poor data erode credibility, obscure trends, and make it hard to compare companies, defeating the purpose of providing decision-useful information.

Saying data quality is optional or limited to internal reporting misses the point that SASB metrics are aimed at external decision-makers who rely on reliable, quantitative, comparable data. Relying only on qualitative disclosures ignores the need for measurable metrics that allow apples-to-apples comparisons and risk assessment.

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