Opaque pay structures, involving vast bonuses, make that easier.
They will want to know whether they intend to repay any of their vast bonuses.
You bet it's a problem when failed executives who have driven their companies and their shareholders to ruin pocket vast bonuses.
The vast bonuses result from a scheme linked to the housebuilder's share price, which soared thanks to the taxpayer-backed help-to-buy programme.
When he denounced the scandal of "closed circle" of remuneration committees awarding each other vast bonuses, this obvious clap line was simply ignored.
If we're prepared to put up with vast bonuses, perhaps the least we can ask is that banks pay a full whack of tax – within the spirit of the law, rather than the letter.
Friday's outcome may have little meaning in sporting terms, but it will reverberate in the minds of those who relish seeing footballers giving their all when vast bonuses and salaries are not on offer.
Low and middle-income families are warned that it will take another decade for living standards to return to pre-recession levels, yet wealthy financiers in the City continue to grab vast bonuses despite being responsible for not just the economic shocks that shook the world, but a succession of subsequent scandals.
The French felt, not unreasonably, that their jobs and savings were being put at risk through no fault of their own, while bankers pocketed vast bonuses as their bank profits collapsed.But Mr Sarkozy, a live wire, warmed so fast to his new theme, bashing hedge funds and blaming tax havens, that it has become hard to make out what part is gesture politics and what part genuine conviction.
The rest have taken their place in the gallery of historical figures who created the legend that gives the Scuderia Ferrari the right to claim a place as first among equals at the modern Formula One table, enjoying enormous advantages, including vast financial bonuses and a veto on new technical regulations.
