This is very important in startups (probably all size companies, but I've never worked at a xx,xxx person scale company to say). Everyone wants to know this in

This is very important in startups (probably all size companies, but I've never worked at a xx,xxx person scale company to say). Everyone wants to know this info and so if you don't share it explicitly someone has to construct an excel sheet or something every couple of weeks to send to the team. Why pay someone to do that when your interested coworkers can do it themselves? Also, it makes things like giving everyone a company credit card much easier to manage - if Bob can see what Alice is buying on her card (and vice versa) it keeps everyone honest.