Sumday is providing Xero customers with 12 months free access to Sumday's powerful carbon accounting tools, empowering them to understand their environmental impact and take steps towards a more sustainable future. Eligibility and terms apply.

This offering also provides small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping partners with valuable training, templates and resources to enhance their carbon accounting skills.

Bridget Snelling, Country Manager at Xero Aotearoa New Zealand said: “For small businesses today, being able to measure and report on their carbon footprint gives them a competitive advantage when tendering for business with large organisations. Many of these organisations in New Zealand are now required to report their carbon usage, and that of their suppliers. This partnership makes it easy for Xero customers to determine and share this information. It’s another step we’re taking to back small businesses in a rapidly changing world.”

Jessica Richmond, CEO and Co-founder of Sumday said: “By making carbon accounting as routine and accessible as financial accounting, we're empowering small businesses to account for their impact beyond dollars and cents. Having been a small business owner myself, I understand the challenges these businesses face in making time to get across a new area.

"Our tools are making it easy for small businesses to understand their impact at a high level, before going deeper and helping improve the quality of their carbon accounting. Sometimes small businesses just need help and we've always believed that accountants would play a key role in that.

"Through this partnership with Xero, we're putting powerful carbon accounting tools in the hands of those who understand the business and want to deliver auditable accounting that generates meaningful insights as well.”