They were the first ones who needed a report. Yet, while one may imagine social assessment developing in a similar way to the tradition of financial auditing, there are a few problems with the idea. First, it took around 150 years for the generally-accepted, unwritten standards of financial accounting practices to evolve into the written, standardized, and externally validated practices we have today. In the case of social assessment, the need for such formalized practices is immediate, and the precedent is limited to a few decades of small studies. And therefore you have to expose your subjectivity, you have to be open about it, as opposed to presuming otherwise.
Money is a reductionist system, and social is synthetic.
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