Review your DMA report
Review the report we produce from your assessment, complete the parts that are yours, and leave with an audit-ready file.
Generating the Word report is not a self-serve action in the platform. Once you close data collection, Karomia produces it from your assessment and sends it to you to review and complete. The Excel export you download yourself, at any time.
Introduction
Your DMA produces two deliverables. Both are yours to edit and share.
Side by side: the cover of the Word report and the sheet list of the Excel export.
The Word report
A document of around 40 pages, generated from your assessment once data collection is closed, with:
- Introduction: your company, the scope of the assessment and the documents used.
- Methodology: how the IROs were identified (value chain, AI pre-assessment, generation, selection), how stakeholders were engaged, how scores are calculated, with the weights and thresholds that applied to your assessment. The parameters printed here are the ones your assessment actually ran on, including which methods were used and whether the threshold came from the mean or from the floor of 3.
- Stakeholder engagement: the groups, the methods, the number of participants, the population of each group.
- Results: the matrix, the material topics and subtopics with their scores, the material IROs with the ESRS labels, and the status of every ESRS subtopic (assessed, covered elsewhere, not material with rationale, to be completed). Selected IROs that received no stakeholder scores are listed separately, without a materiality conclusion.
- Analysis per material topic: a qualitative text that explains why the topic is material, built from your documents and the comments of your stakeholders.
- Review of your own reporting: for every IRO, what the documents you uploaded already say about that matter, traced back to the document and the page it came from. It also carries an identified but not scored section, so an IRO that no stakeholder scored is still reported on the documentary record rather than disappearing. This layer is evidence only. It enters no score, no threshold and no verdict; every materiality result in your report comes from stakeholder answers alone.
- Discussion: the subtopics that did not reach the thresholds and the ones that landed in the undecided band, the decisions taken on them after review with you, changes to weights or thresholds, and the sign-off.
The report is about 80% done when you receive it. The remaining 20% is yours: why you chose these stakeholder groups and methods, how you resolved the undecided topics, what the governance body decided. In the draft you receive, these points are highlighted in yellow for you to review and complete.
The report never contains respondent names, email addresses or individual scores. Stakeholder input is reported at group level and in anonymised form.
One-click generation of the Word report from the platform is being built. Until then, we generate it for you within one to two weeks after you close data collection.
The Excel export
Download it from the results page at any time. It contains every step of the calculation:
| Sheet | Content |
|---|---|
| Index & methodology | What each sheet and column means, and the parameters of your assessment |
| All results | One row per respondent, question and IRO, with the score, the breakdown, the comment, the weights and the method |
| Stakeholder aggregation | One score per stakeholder group per IRO |
| IRO aggregation | One score per IRO, with its labels, question and conclusion |
| Subtopic aggregation | Raw and normalized scores per subtopic and IRO type, with the conclusion |
| Topic aggregation | Scores per topic |
| Materiality summary | Impact and financial materiality per subtopic and topic, the thresholds, the matrix data |
Respondent identifiers are in the export because the data is yours. Treat the file accordingly.
Using the results
- Your sustainability report. When you create an ESRS or VSME report in Karomia, link this assessment. The material topics define the scope of the report and the DMA feeds the disclosures on the materiality process (ESRS 2 IRO-1, IRO-2 and SBM-3).
- Your audit. Give the auditor the Word report and the Excel. See How to prepare for the audit for the questions they ask and the evidence that answers each one. Karomia joins the conversation on request to explain the methodology.
- Your strategy. The material IROs are the starting point for policies, actions and targets. The analysis per topic is written so you can reuse it.
- Next year. Keep the assessment. It is the baseline for your next refresh; see Start from a previous DMA.
Output
- A Word DMA report of around 40 pages, about 80% complete, with the parts that are yours highlighted for you to finish.
- An Excel export with every answer and every calculation step, which is what an auditor uses to re-perform a number.
- The material topics that scope your ESRS or VSME report, and the baseline for next year's refresh.
Next: How to prepare for the audit.