You tell this to all donors.....hey! your donation, only 10% or 5% goes to charity, the rest goes to my salary and operating cost....overnight I guarantee you donation drop!
For profit organisation, buyer or consumer buy the products for the benefits or how it solve their problems. Donation, they do not expect anything in return, maybe just some feel good moment.
You don't try hide behind donation use to pay high salary for CEO......back to basic, what is the purpose of people donating? What are the donors intention? To pay the salary of CEO who is competent? If the CEO so competent, why don't he or she go to for profit organisation and work and earn for shareholders who are more than willing to pay him or her top dollar for their skills, because any reasonable shareholders will understand the competent CEO can earn back for them many fold?
Since you want to talk accounting, let me talk accounting with you. Revenue and sales both exist in charity and for profit organisation. That's the only similarity. Next, for profit organisation, revenue is generated via transaction between willing buyer and willing seller, where the buyer expect something in return, in exchange in buyer cash. Charity, yes, revenue still captured, but, there is no exchange of goods and services, the donors, just give money away he or she believe on the cause.
And, since the donors does not expect anything in return, don't you think it is morally right that the charity organisation be transparent on how they utilised the money?
Or. do you mean you would also agree with the previous BN Langkawi MP statement, you tax paid is already paid to the government, therefore, it is up to the government how they want to spend it?
I suggest you read through the charter of any charity organisation, what is the purpose they setup their charity organisation, and determine if their action of paying majority of their source of funds into operation cost, instead of meeting the goal of their charter.
Registered charity organizations have account books that you can request and look into. these financial documents are audited no different to a public company. You can look all these information on your own, don't let your inability to look for information or your reliance on spoon-feeding stop you from learning. My point stands, they still have their operating costs that they need to pay for, including hiring competent people to run the show. I am not defending their high CEO salaries, but I am defending against ignorance.
There are also plenty of platforms of charity organizations that you can read on to gauge how transparent, accountable, and fiscally responsible the different charities are. Since you seem to rely on others to help you with information gathering, here is one platform that you can look at: