'Any company that wants to publish all its financial statements publicly can technically already do so and could always do so.' What, in PDF? and store them on

'Any company that wants to publish all its financial statements publicly can technically already do so and could always do so.' What, in PDF? and store them on a website or FTP server? Totally discoverable and analysable? And if two different companies publish statements (inevitsbly in slightly dofferent formats) you need a team of analysts working for 6 months to match up the transactions?