About the Rating

The Accountability Rating is a tool for measuring the extent to which companies have built responsible practices into the way they do business and their impact on the economies, societies and environments in which they operate. The Rating was developed by leading CSR consultancy csrnetwork and international think-tank AccountAbility, and first applied in 2004.

The global Accountability Rating

Every year, we apply the Rating to the world’s largest companies (the Fortune Global 100, or ‘G100’), and the headline results are published in Fortune magazine.

The Rating draws on information companies put into their public reporting, as well as data on their actual social and environmental performance. It rates companies on four ‘domains’: strategic intent, governance and management, engagement and operational performance. Their scores are out of a maximum of 100.

Country rankings

We also publish Accountability Rating country rankings. In 2008, there were rankings for the largest companies in eight countries: Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Russia, South Korea and Turkey.