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SCA ACCOUNTING INFORMATION, MISINFORMATION & DISINFORMATION
By Robert Stern
Who are you to believe? Who do you trust? Does it really matter?
A great technique for disinformation and misinformation is to flood the reader with purely factual quotes from documents and then slip in the falsehoods. The trusting reader is then “had”. That could be said of anyone including me, so the reader has to become informed to figure out whom to trust.
I will suggest that the GATEKEEPER is an expert at the technique as his purpose is to defend management and so he writes as if he is the authority speaking for management and the board. And trusting readers “buy it” and get “had” with the misinformation.
Already supporting my positions on accounting principles, and reporting that I have been a respected former board member /Treasure and an independent CPA who I don’t know. That should offer some assurance. I maintain we are in this restaurant financial situation because of such misinformation and disinformation and the community was “had”. But does it matter? Yes and NO!
The disinformation just presented by the GATEKEEPER is slick. Ask yourself. Will there be monthly accounting on the restaurant prepared by SCA staff that account for everything including utilities, legal, insurance and administrative overhead, that does include some allocation of those costs, such as the Communications Director that are spending time on supporting the restaurant?
And that is separate and beyond the WHG accountings, right? That’s what’s needed. That’s appropriate.
Will this monthly accounting be all inclusive of SCA’s true costs?
Will the Community be fully informed monthly with numbers and explanations you can trust?
You decide. And you also decide if it matters. These early challenges may force staff to get it right. We shall see.
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