Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 September 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

The whole point of the financial statements is to give a true-up of one's trading position in a year. The board is signing off and declaring that it has been in a deficit position in a particular year. The whole point of the financial statements exercise is that one does know what one's position is at the end of any period.