From: Osher Doctorow [log in to unmask], Mon. Sept. 16, 2002 11:37AM
Ray Thomas asks (indirectly via the programme that he is referring to):
> How is it possible for commercial accounting and national
> accounting to arrive at different sets of accounts?
I would suggest as a reference the Anderson Accounting and ENRON Scandals.
While I have the floor (the ceiling?), I want to thank those membes of
RADSTATS who, throughout the current unfortunate political and life-death
crises, have maintained their equilibrium and their balance in a Golden Mean
sense between concrete and abstract, real and unreal or imaginary,
individual and humanity/group, majority and minority, past and present and
future (not just the past or present or future). I also want to thank
those who have maintained Non-Golden-Mean positions of courage and integrity
on the issues of tolerance, tranquility rather than anger/blame against
others, and non-materialism (neither the materialism of money, of power, or
of sensation), knowledge/reason, hope, charity, respect for victims rather
than victimizers, and perhaps faith - even if it is only faith in a
benevolent philosophy of science/mathematics/statistics.
Osher Doctorow
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From: "Ray Thomas" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 7:34 AM
Subject: PUBLIC OR PRIVATE?
> RSS Meeting on Public Sector Classification Issues- Tea at 1630 for
meeting
> at 1700 hrs Monday 23rd September
>
> Robin Lynch and Martin Kellaway, Office for National Statistics.
> "Classifying the Public Sector : Network Rail, a case study".
>
> The guiding principle for classifying institutions as public or private is
> who exerts control. How does this principle apply to Network Rail? How is
> the government support for financing scored - as contingent liabilities?
> What process has the ONS in place to protect its independence and
> integrity? What is the role of international institutions including
> Eurostat in this process? How did the Mobile Phone licence payments debate
> finish?
>
> What other recent cases need the assurance of independence? How do the
> principles relevant for Network Rail apply to other government
> supported investments? What are the issues surrounding the classification
> of tax credits?
>
> Discussant: Jean Shaoul, Department of Accounting, University of
Manchester.
>
>
> How to get the RSS? See:
> http://www.rss.org.uk/about/direction.html
>
>
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