But investors also need some assurance that companies' financial statements and forecasts bear some resemblance to reality.
It could publish an ongoing list of statements and forecasts made by those anointed to do so, judge the size and grotesqueness of their errors, exaggerations and assorted musings, and hold occasional public events where particularly dramatic offenders are invited to speak about the precise financial and scientific metrics they utilized to achieve their discredited conclusions.
Balls's remarks came ahead of this week's autumn statement and growth forecasts, which are expected to show the economy improving.
To explore these issues we will source data from both companies, their joint statement, and industry forecasts.
E.g. exercise the agency response to an eruptive episode, including the various responding monitoring teams within this organisation, such as: geochemistry, geophysics, geodesy, and social sciences, as well as those responsible for issuing monitoring statements, developing forecasts, and providing impact and warning advice to the public and key decision makers.
The Office for Budget Responsibility OBRR) lifted its forecast for GDP growth in 2014 to 2.7%, from the 2.4% predicted in December's autumn statement and 1.8% forecast at the time of last year's budget.
These same skill sets are easily transferrable to researching financial statements, organizational budgeting and forecasting.
Resolve the definitive treatment as early as you can, so it can be incorporated into all aspects of the process including go-public audits, statements, forecasts, and just overall accounting.
To a potential investor it is a statement of intent and full of massaged numbers and forecasts.
A statement of the form: "Given the input variables used in this energy model, the results and forecast statements from it are uncertain by at least 89 %.
New Zealand announces goals and forecasts.
