Emissions reporting isn’t a one-time task—it’s an ongoing commitment. Regularly monitoring your emissions allows you to track progress, identify areas for improvement, and ensure compliance with regulations. It also helps you detect anomalies, such as unexpected spikes in energy use or waste generation, which could signal inefficiencies or costly issues within your operations. By establishing a system for consistent data collection, analysis, and review, you can maintain transparency, address problems early, and adapt to future changes in regulations or business needs, keeping sustainability at the core of your strategy.

Tips: 

• Have clear goals: Define why you're reporting (e.g. compliance, tracking progress, saving money, improving efficiency) to focus your efforts on collecting relevant data
• Use established frameworks: Use the NGA Factors workbook and review annually for the yearly updates. You can get the current and historical emission factors here: National Greenhouse Accounts Factors - DCCEEW
• Automate data collection: This is a good one if you have lots of electricity accounts, assets or vehicles in your fleet. Investing in software or a reporting compony that automates data tracking will reduce the manual effort and minimize errors 
• Organise the data: Set up system for tracking emissions-related data regularly. Monthly or quarterly tracking is more manageable than an annual scramble
• Focus on Scope 1 and 2 emission sources first: Prioritize areas that you are directly responsible for, before accounting for your scope 3 emission
• Integrate reporting into your existing business processes: Embed emissions tracking into your regular operations, such as into procurement, accounts payable or operations. 
• Use templates for collecting data: Spend some time up front in creating a template for collecting the data, so each quarter all you have to do is enter in the usage values from your bills (See the sample below):