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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Envizi - ESG Suite
Categories Base Platform
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 14, 2025

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Add accrual method for last same month with available data

We would like an accrual method that merges the functionality of "Use data from the same month of last year" and "Use data of last available month prior to the missing period", i.e. that indefinitely carries forward the last available data record for a given month. 

The "Use data from the same month of last year" method only accrues data for a 12 month period after the last data capture and then accrues zeros going forward (i.e. is not accruing accruals). We have a use case where we descoped locations from reporting but would like to use the automated accruals feature to populate accounts for those sites with the last available, seasonal (i.e. by month) data record.

For example, a consumption of 100 was captured in October 2023, and 80 in November 2023 as last available actuals, we would then like the method to accrue 100 and 80 into October and November 2024 as well as into October and November 2025 etc, respectively.

We would like this method to be implemented by Q2/2026 when the current accrual method "Use data from the same month of last year" stops working for our purpose.
 
 

Idea priority Medium
Needed By Quarter
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  • Guest
    Dec 4, 2025

    Hi Jan and Eugene, 

    I believe Eugene is referring to the bottom of the page regarding the Weighted Average Method - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/envizi-esg-suite?topic=methodologies-weighted-average - where it states:

    "If data is not available for any of the four months, then the algorithm uses the last available month, that is, the latest month that has actual data, to generate accruals. This typically happens for accounts that are missing data for more than 12 months of a period."

    From my interpretation Jan, this would meet your requirement of "Use data of last available month prior to the missing period" - Does that make sense?

    It would mean swapping from"Use data from the same month of last year" to the Average Weight method to enable this functionality, which would change how accruals work for your datasets where data is consistently present, so would be something for you to discuss internally.

    Thanks,

    Ross

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  • Guest
    Dec 1, 2025

    Thanks for following up on this. From reading the documentation of the Weighted Average Method, I don't think that this will be applicable in our use case as it states that "If actual data is not available in the relevant month, then both the daily average and the weight are treated as having a value of 0 for that month. The calculation of the accruals is based on actual data only and are not based on any other accruals."

    What we are looking for is continued accruals from the last available data for a given calendar month. E.g. (and to stick with my original example) if the last recorded actual consumption for an account was 100 in October 2023, then the method should accrue the same 100 value into October 2024, October 2025, October 2026, October 2027, ...

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    Eugene Yu
    Nov 27, 2025

    Thanks fo raising the enhancement request.

    To accrue indefinitely, you can consider to use the 'Weighted Average' method. It is similar to the 'Same Month Last Year' method with seasonal considerations, i.e., it uses same period of last year with a weightage of 1, togeter with the same season of this year with a weightage of 3.

    See this page for more details on the Weighted Average Method:

    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/envizi-esg-suite?topic=methodologies-weighted-average

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