# Can our chartered accountant prepare our carbon inventory?

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Yes, if they learn the method. No Indian rule says who must prepare a company carbon inventory. A CA is good at tracing figures to invoices, which is most of the work. They need the GHG Protocol rules on scopes and factors. The same person should not also verify it.

## What a CA brings

- Ledgers and invoice trails they already know.
- Discipline on cut-off dates and duplicates.
- Sign-off habits that verifiers like.

## What they need to learn

- Scope 1, 2 and 3 boundaries.
- Activity data in litres, kWh and kg, not only rupees.
- Which emission factors to use and why.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible reads bills, fuel invoices and production records into dated, fingerprinted records, so the figure you send a buyer can be traced to its documents.

- [Who should sign off carbon figures](https://senseible.earth/answers/who-should-sign-off-company-carbon-figures)
- [Who cannot verify](https://senseible.earth/answers/verifier-independence-who-cannot-verify)
- [Excel or software](https://senseible.earth/answers/excel-or-carbon-accounting-software)

Sources: [GHG Protocol Corporate Standard](https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard), [ISO](https://www.iso.org)

Last reviewed 2026-10-23.