Concept & Values

This section provides a brief introduction to the tools the Sustainable Value Limited uses and the values that underpin its work.

Whilst driven by practicality and ensuring timely delivery, sound technical and intellectual understanding underpins all advice and support.

Equally values and ethical principles inform the judgements made and go beyond simple compliance to create trust in all our dealings.

Sustainability is a broad concept that includes environmental, economic and social factors.

When applied to business, sustainable activities, decisions and policies not only deliver current goods and services effectively but enhance, or at least do not dimmish, future capacity, resources and, or capability.

And the sustainability of a business is greater where the impact of that business sustains the wider environment, economy and society in which it operates (and on which it ultimately depends).

Valuation is the process of assessing the worth of an asset, tangible or intangible, and including a company, business, "a right" or an activity.

It can be used to price the transfer or sale of an asset or to support business decisions by helping to understand the impact of a course of action on value.

The current or present value is generally assessed as the aggregate of all future net income or benefits having regard to the cost of capital, risk and when costs and income or benefits occur.

Sustainability is about the continuation of capacity and value into the future and thus, valuation techniques are a key tool in making sustainable decisions, for example in the creation of sustainable value.

They also help to express sustainable value in the rigorous terms that investors and public authorities developing business cases often use in making investment decisions.