And so right now I'm in the process of applying for mortgages for various things and having to get bank statements and tax returns and like, you know, company, house documents.
Just three government agencies will handle all of the donated funds, and high-ranking officials will track spending and publish accounting reports online.
For example, NBCUniversal made about half a billion dollars more in revenue from the 2016 Summer Olympics than it did from the 2014 Winter Olympics, according to the company's financial statements.
In 2003, Italian dairy food giant Parmalat went bankrupt after it was found to have fabricated a 4 billion dollar bank account and falsified financial statements to hide the fact that its subsidiaries had been losing money.
But when they're used in the wrong context, like if your boss came into your office and said " I need that report finished by the end of the day" don't say " Fat chance! "
At tax time, I found myself seated across from him, watching as he slowly tapped his pen on the charitable giving line of my tax return with this look of, like, poorly concealed disapproval.
If you were to look at a financial statement in a business and you wanted the business to make a million dollars, you wouldn't go to the expense line and just start cutting all of the expenses.