All accountants are greedy, cash obsessed pond life. Discuss.*

[Brighton TID]

I know a few accountants and all they ever seem to talk about is money, how much they earn, how much they could earn, how much their directors earn, how much everyone else earns in comparison. They seem to be linked by a common obsession with trying to outdo their work buddies by buying bigger and more expensive material things before boasting about how much they cost and how big their houses are and how fast their landrovers go and which golf clubs they play at. Maybe I am tarring accountants with the same brush but surely amoebas have more layers to them?

 

[Lincoln Imp]

Absurd generalisation. We might not have a football club if it wasn't for the tireless unpaid work over 16 years of a chartered accountant.

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

Absurd generalisation. We might not have a football club if it wasn't for the tireless unpaid work over 16 years of a chartered accountant.

Agreed. Not forgetting Paul Welch as well as Mr. Samrah.

 

[16 bit 44.1]

My accountant is a really nice guy and never discusses any of that stuff. He is also half the price of everyone else. Guess I got lucky!

 

[bravohotelalpha]

Absurd generalisation. We might not have a football club if it wasn't for the tireless unpaid work over 16 years of a chartered accountant.

Absolutely !

 

[El Presidente]

I know a few accountants and all they ever seem to talk about is money, how much they earn, how much they could earn, how much their directors earn, how much everyone else earns in comparison. They seem to be linked by a common obsession with trying to outdo their work buddies by buying bigger and more expensive material things before boasting about how much they cost and how big their houses are and how fast their landrovers go and which golf clubs they play at. Maybe I am tarring accountants with the same brush but surely amoebas have more layers to them?

I'm a chartered accountant and all I talk about is PORN.

 

[TottonSeagull]

I know a few accountants and all they ever seem to talk about is money, how much they earn, how much they could earn, how much their directors earn, how much everyone else earns in comparison. They seem to be linked by a common obsession with trying to outdo their work buddies by buying bigger and more expensive material things before boasting about how much they cost and how big their houses are and how fast their landrovers go and which golf clubs they play at. Maybe I am tarring accountants with the same brush but surely amoebas have more layers to them?

What a total cock you are. I am not an accountant but employ one that saves me alot a money of year. Maybe if you get some life experience instead of being a key board warrior you could form a proper opinion. Grow up sonny!

 

[itszamora]

I've got a couple of friends who are accountants, and whilst I'm aware that they earn a fair bit more than I do, they're not flashy about it at all.

 

[matt]

Absurd generalisation. We might not have a football club if it wasn't for the tireless unpaid work over 16 years of a chartered accountant.

Agree 100% less tax.

 

[Eggmundo]

Well my Daughter passed her degree in accountancy last week so i'll tell you in a few years

 

[halbpro]

Well my grandad's an accountant, and never talks about money. Has interesting stories about his clients from when he was much younger, but never mentions the money.

 

[Norman Potting]

Why is it that everyone had to make sweeping assertions about everyone else?

 

[Kaiser_Soze]

Just to balance things up a little bit, I have a mate I've know since school who works for PwC at Gatwick and is VERY much in the mould the OP has described. Obviously not ALL accountants are that way inclined, but there are certainly a few!!

 

[Brighton TID]

What a total cock you are. I am not an accountant but employ one that saves me alot a money of year. Maybe if you get some life experience instead of being a key board warrior you could form a proper opinion. Grow up sonny!

Haha, you sound a bit like my dad telling me off when I was a kid back in the 80s (b4 proper computers).

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I haven't got a big house, or landrover (ludicrous tractor) and nor do I play golf (stupid game).

I haven't got any money either.

Lawyers are definitely strange beasts though.

 

[Bruntburger]

I'm an accountant and I am skint!

 

[Gazwag]

I know a few accountants and all they ever seem to talk about is money, how much they earn, how much they could earn, how much their directors earn, how much everyone else earns in comparison. They seem to be linked by a common obsession with trying to outdo their work buddies by buying bigger and more expensive material things before boasting about how much they cost and how big their houses are and how fast their landrovers go and which golf clubs they play at. Maybe I am tarring accountants with the same brush but surely amoebas have more layers to them?

So what do you do for a living then before I enter the discussion

 

[perseus]

 

[Jerryatric]

Why is it that everyone had to make sweeping assertions about everyone else?

I see what you did there!

 

[happypig]

Why Accountancy Is Not Boring

By Mr. A. Putty, from Monty Python's Big Red Book


First let me say how very pleased I was to be asked on the 4th inst. to write an article on why accountancy is not boring. I feel very very strongly that there are many people who may think that accountancy is boring, but they would be wrong, for it is not at all boring, as I hope to show you in this article, which is, as I intimated earlier, a pleasure to write.

I think I can do little worse than begin this article by describing why accountancy is not boring as far as I am concerned, and then, perhaps, go on to a more general discussion of why accountancy as a whole is not boring. As soon as I awake in the morning it is not boring. I get up at 7.16, and my wife Irene, an ex-schoolteacher, gets up shortly afterwards at 7.22. Breakfast is far from boring and soon I am ready to leave the house. Irene, a keen Rotarian, hands me my briefcase and rolled umbrella at 7.53, and I leave the house seconds later. It is a short walk to Sutton station, but by no means a boring one. There is so much to see, including Mr Edgeworth, who also works at Robinson Partners. Mr Edgeworth is an extremely interesting man, and was in Uxbridge during the war. Then there is a train journey of 2 2 minutes to London Bridge, one of British Rail's main London terminal, where we accountants mingle for a moment with stockbrokers and other accountants from all walks of life. I think that many of the people to whom accountancy appears boring think that all accountants are the same. Nothing could be further from the truth. Some accountants are chartered, but very many others are certified. I am a certified accountant, as indeed is Mr Edgeworth, whom I told you about earlier. However, in the next office to mine is a Mr Manners, who is a chartered accountant, and, incidentally, a keen Rotarian. However, Mr Edgeworth and I get on extremely well with Mr Manners, despite the slight prestige superiority of his position. Mr Edgeworth, in fact, gets on with Mr Manners extremely well, and if there are two spaces at lunch it is more than likely he will sit with Mr Manners. So far, as you can see, accoun- tancy is not boring. During the morning there are a hundred and one things to do. A secretary may pop in with details of an urgent audit. This happened in 1967 and again last year. On the other hand, the phone may ring, or there may be details of a new superannuation scheme to mull over. The time flies by in this not at all boring way, and it is soon ,when there is only 1 hour to go before Mrs Jackson brings round the tea urn. Mrs Jackson is just one of the many people involved in accountancy who give the lie to those who say it is a boring profession. Even a solicitor or a surveyor would find Mrs Jackson a most interesting person. At 10.00am, having drunk an interesting cup of tea, I put my cup on the tray and then...( 18 pages deleted here - Ed .) .. and once the light is turned out by Irene, a very keen Rotarian, I am left to think about how extremely un-boring my day has been, being an accountant. Finally may I say how extremely grateful I am to your book for so generously allowing me so much space. (Sorry, Putey ! - Ed.)