BA
Of course, and they do exactly that: go to www.bbc.co.uk/annualreport and you'll find full sets of accounts for the BBC (within the annual reports) from 97/98 up to 2002/03.
OK, they don't give details of individual programme budgets, but no company's accounts ever go into that much detail - apart from anything else, it would be commercially sensitive information. You will find detailed breakdowns of programme costs by genre etc though.
The report for 2003/04 is due to be published on July 13th.
cwathen posted:
I'd like to see the BBC's accounts published yearly on the internet so that the interested viewer can see just how much they spend on what. Since we *directly* fund them, we should have a right to see where that funding is going.
Of course, and they do exactly that: go to www.bbc.co.uk/annualreport and you'll find full sets of accounts for the BBC (within the annual reports) from 97/98 up to 2002/03.
OK, they don't give details of individual programme budgets, but no company's accounts ever go into that much detail - apart from anything else, it would be commercially sensitive information. You will find detailed breakdowns of programme costs by genre etc though.
The report for 2003/04 is due to be published on July 13th.
MS
Naturally its utterly pointless, bu then that's the nature of these things. If there were such a figure, it would be meaningless unless there was a mandatory, and static, accounting standard for calculating the stated cost. Then it could be as honest as say..... an APR percentage!
Seriously though, there should be a requirement on commercial broadcasters that a set of accounts be produced in a specific form for each licence, this would give information to viewers (to inform the process), regulators and independents. This would of-course be additional to the annual company accounts, broadcasting accounts would however be published in a comparative form by OfCom.
And yes, they should still have to declare the bit-rate per service.
BBC LDN posted:
Utterly useless proposal.
For those that are interested, and who will understand the information being presented to them, this information should have course be made available online or in free booklet form from the BBC. .........
For those that are interested, and who will understand the information being presented to them, this information should have course be made available online or in free booklet form from the BBC. .........
Naturally its utterly pointless, bu then that's the nature of these things. If there were such a figure, it would be meaningless unless there was a mandatory, and static, accounting standard for calculating the stated cost. Then it could be as honest as say..... an APR percentage!
Seriously though, there should be a requirement on commercial broadcasters that a set of accounts be produced in a specific form for each licence, this would give information to viewers (to inform the process), regulators and independents. This would of-course be additional to the annual company accounts, broadcasting accounts would however be published in a comparative form by OfCom.
And yes, they should still have to declare the bit-rate per service.