Accounting and financial reporting standards

The pollution produced by companies which operate in less developed countries in ways they could never do at home, in those countries in which they raise their capital: We note that often the businesses that operate this way are multinationals. They do here what they would never do in developed countries or the so-called first world.  Pope Francis

Yesterday marked the fifth anniversary of the “Accountability Watch” column. The first article, entitled “Understanding Corruption”, was carried on 4 June 2012. To date, a total of 257 articles on various topics relating to governance, transparency and accountability have been published, of which 181 were reproduced in book form in two volumes: “Accountability at the Crossroads: The Guyana Experience” and “Governance, Transparency and Accountability”.

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