Financial statements for almost any organiz on look pretty much the same. But next to the line item entitled collections, that is to say, the millions of unimaginably rare and precious art objects owned by the museum, there is no dollar figure,. It's blank. All it says is, see note a o. The value of the museums collections has been excluded from the statement of financial position. Excluded. This is a multi billion dollar organization with us. Billions and billions of dollars in art, and it's none of it is listed on their in the financial statement. I don't even understand how that star, i was just wondering if thay could be gogled up here
Dragons hoard treasure, deep in their lairs. They don’t show it off to their neighbors. Revisionist History applies dragon psychology to the strange world of art museums, with help from Andy Warhol, J.R.R. Tolkien, a handful of accountants and the world’s leading hoarding expert.
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