It's tough to argue with you, and it's part of my message as well. For anybody to make a good decision, one needs to have good quality information. That's why I think accrual accounting is good, because it gives you better-quality information. This decision itself I think needs to have that same high-quality information that will allow you to be able to make the decision. You need to have that information before you can make the decision.
Having said that, there are advantages, however, in being able to say you can understand the benefits. The benefits are more difficult to actually get a tangible handle on usually, but if there was some support for saying we can see that better-quality information will come out eventually, at least the direction is given. Then it's a question of saying, now we need a detailed plan that needs to be fully costed before we can make a final decision, but some encouragement one way or the other might help.