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Jason, have you any sense of humour?
Radio 4 and having a life are not mutually incompatible. I have a life, thank you, especially since my divorce. A life means being educated and well informed. It means feeling comfortable when people poke fun at one. Radio 4's 'Today' programme is news and comment without puerile jingles and, best of all, without advertising. I have visited 3 republics beginning with the letter I in the last 15 months. You cannot even seem to recognise an incoherent sentence when you have written it yourself. How long will it take you to list three republics beginning with I (that's the one located between U and O), let alone three Shakespeare tragedies? Or are you only playing the fool?
I am so dull
My sincere apologies to Jason for trying to give Samantha an informative and useful answer, perhaps I misunderstood the meaning of this website, and perhaps I am the dullest man on this entire planet and how can I possibly compete in the charisma stakes with someone who uses the word "Sheez"
I'm now off to look this word up in my Concise Oxford English Dictionary that is located in between my Des O'connor LP's and my collection of alphabetically filed accountancy text books.
Now where did I put my pipe and slippers ........
The wrong kind of accountant
Rachel, you obviously went out with the wrong kind of accountant. Are you sure that he wasn't an actuary?
Actuaries are people who rejected a career in accountancy because they were afraid it would have been too exciting.
Some are so dull...
Some are so dull that they keep responding to this topic on Any Answers.
I suppose that includes me!
I've got a really interesting collection of pre-war credit notes, so I can't be dull, can I?
Dull
Personally i do not think we as accountant are born dull, this is what the mindset of public has as accountant are trained to be prudence and conservative. So the answer is why care what people have in their mind of accountant.
Maybe, but some people need us, evidently.
Did anyone hear Bernard Matthews on Radio 4 this morning? He spoke of floating his company 39 years ago in 1971 (sic.), when the rate of tax on dividends was 98%. This meant, according to him, that of a £1m dividend the shareholders received only £20k and the treasury £980k. This is nonsense unless all of his shareholders were 83% taxpayers subject to the investment income surcharge of 15%. I suspect that few of them were. I'd rather be an accurate accountant than a Norfolk turkey farmer.
History
On a serious note, I think a lot of the stigma attached to accountants goes back to the 60's and 70's when most accountants were basically number crunching individuals in grey suits and dull ties, who produced reams and reams of data without supplying any meaningful management information. However more recently there has been a shift in the role of most accountants, particularly management accountants, to become key team players, adding value to an organisation. As the demands of modern commerce intensify good accounts must regularly demonstrate an ability to "Think outside the box"
Never
Entirely depends on the individual.
Happy to say I do not fall into that category, although I know several people who do!
Types of accountants
There are THREE basic types of accountant: - those who can count and those who can't!?!