My sons reminded me of a joke last night. I think the original was by Michael McIntyre.<\/p>\n
The joke is about using maps on a mobile phone - and that the first place we always want to find is our home. The same is true of street view, or whatever Google call their service where you can view a road on a map. Home matters to us so much that we want to check it out - even when we're at home.<\/p>\n
But look at a set of multinational corporation\u00a0accounts and you can't do that: home will be noticeable by its absence because country-by-country reporting does not exist within the pages of such a document - and most especially so if home is a developing country in which the MNC trades.<\/p>\n
Those accounts do, as a result, fail to meet a basic human need, which is information on what is happening immediately around us. And even now when the case for\u00a0country-by-country reporting is being won those responsible for the preparation of accounts are fighting back against the provision of that information.<\/p>\n
What are they trying to hide?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"