[Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

Mon Nov 22 23:29:27 UTC 2010

I started this thread to discuss Wikimedia's CSR. Unfortunately, people are now debating salaries for the major part of this thread...

~Abbas.

> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:53:32 -0500
> From: nawrich at gmail.com
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility
> 
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:42 PM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> > In a message dated 11/22/2010 2:10:05 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> > wikipedia at frontier.com writes:
> >
> >
> > > They aren't - as a
> > > member of the audit committee, I have full confidence that the Wikimedia
> > > Foundation's tax reports are using the appropriate categories for
> > > expenses.
> >
> >
> > So auditing is now about confidence ?
> > Something seems wrong with an audit committee who is trusting who they are
> > auditing.  Isn't the very point of auditing, to not have trust and blind
> > faith?
> >
> >
> I think you misunderstood his point, even though it did not seem unclear.
> It's perfectly reasonable for someone to have confidence in their own work,
> which in this case is the work of the audit committee to determine the
> completeness, accuracy and legal sufficiency of financial reporting.
> 
> Nathan
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