The ExIm bank reckons that last year export credit regulated by the OECD guidelines amounted to $120 billion, unregulated credit by OECD countries to $110 billion and lending by Russia, Brazil, India and China to $70 billion.America has been no slouch itself.
But first, one thing that hasn't changed is that the guideline amount is measured in 'units' of alcohol.
These would avoid identifying foods as good or bad with red, amber and green and instead give figures for how much fat, salt and sugar a portion of the product contained as a proportion of a guideline amount, calculated by the industry, which you should eat a day of those nutrients.
But look at the back of a food packet and you'll see a guideline amount for total sugars - including those naturally occurring in fruit and other ingredients.
This is the guideline amount of sleep for the average adult, although everybody's body clock works slightly differently.
About 45% of the population drink above guideline amounts of alcohol, over 1000 people a year die from alcohol in Wales, and there are over 55,000 hospital admissions due to alcohol in Wales per year [ 2].
And Staff Accounting Bulletin 99 also makes it clear that when you intentionally violate accounting guidelines, any amount is material".
As the chief medical officers explain in their new guidelines, any amount of alcohol increases the risk of developing cancer, along with over 60 other illnesses.
Yet, tasks within guidelines usually amount to no more than prescribe antidepressant medications 9 and refer to specialists.
In both cases, the time it took to completely and correctly translate and evaluate the guideline, the amount of human effort needed and the number of errors still present in the computerized guideline will be measured and compared to each other.
