I work for a Big 4 chartered accountants and having checked with our HR department this afternoon they have confirmed that we neither currently employ, nor have we ever employed, a chicken (or to that matter any other form of poultry). After some pressing they also suggested that it would be extremely unlikely that any major accountancy firm would be able to satisfy itself that the chicken would have the attributes to get it through the chartered accountancy exams, to cope with the technical demands of the profession and to stand round the coffee machine gossiping and yet still charge the time to clients. I therefore also have to conclude that this story appears to be nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt at attention seeking. My suspicion is that it was created by a member of the executive board of the club to divert attention away from the glaring hole in the left side of our defense.
This thread just gets better and better