Item Detail
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26575
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English
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The Present, Past, and Future of LDS Financial Transparency
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Spring 2015
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48
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1
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Cambridge, MA
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Dialogue Foundation
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1-44
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) has not always been so guarded about its finances. At times in the past, the Church's books were apparently "open for the inspection of the Saints." And since its beginnings, the LDS Church has provided members with occasional public accountings of how it has spent its money. For the first eighty-five years of the Church's history, it made these public accountings irregularly. Brunson looks at the LDS Church's forty-five-year detailed annual financial disclosures that the disclosure advocates seem to prefer. He also discusses the current and future state of Mormon financial disclosure.