Accountants - are they really Born Dull?!

Accountants - are they really Born Dull?!

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Why do people think accountants have boring personalities?
Samantha Owens

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By Accounting WEB
18th Nov 2000 01:23

Maybe accountants are dull, but check out those electronic engineers. They are ten time worse.

G Cummins
Cork
Ireland

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By Accounting WEB
04th Nov 2000 10:51

Feuding accountants
Come on, guys, let's kiss and make up - it's only a bit of fun!

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By Accounting WEB
01st Nov 2000 13:52

Samantha, I think the answers below are a good indication
Guys, the ironic replies are ok but some of you, sheez, you give us accountants a bad name...

Trevor, you are either a comedy genius or the dullest man alive...

"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"

and Phil...

"Did anyone hear Bernard Matthews on Radio 4 this morning?"

Radio 4, are you serious??? What was your last sentance you'd rather be an accurate accountant than have a life? Are you really that concerned about be an accurate accountant?

Accountancy is dull, people who talk about accountancy are dull, I'm an accountant, but only during office hours.

I have actually previously dated other accountants and have often been asked if our pillow talk is about double entry... but that's a whole different story.

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By AnonymousUser
01st Nov 2000 17:20

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?

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By AnonymousUser
01st Nov 2000 17:26

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 ........

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By AnonymousUser
31st Oct 2000 11:17

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.

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By Accounting WEB
30th Oct 2000 17:53

Never date an accountant...
I am an accountant and as such have always been convinced that accountants are extremely interesting people. That was until I started dating one. I have never been so bored in my life. I've come to the conclusion that one accountant by their self is usually quite good fun, but put two together and it's a formula for disaster. You soon discover that you cant even sit down to dinner without talking about FRS5. Take my advice - DONT DO IT!!

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By Accounting WEB
28th Oct 2000 05:32

As they are figure jugglers
Upto certain extent this is right that accountants are dull people but in this IT time this is not right. when one had to due all manual work it might made them bore and particular it was true with book keepers but not for management Accountants because they are now very significant members of the board room of the organisation. Now this superstitions has gone, now they ar most learned and professional people and as well as treated fuuny people in the organization.

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By neileg
25th Oct 2000 16:38

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?

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By AnonymousUser
26th Oct 2000 12:41

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.

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By AnonymousUser
26th Oct 2000 09:37

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.

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By AnonymousUser
25th Oct 2000 11:05

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"

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By arandall
25th Oct 2000 16:05

Dull?
Some are born dull, some are made dull and some have dullness thrust upon them!

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By AnonymousUser
25th Oct 2000 18:33

dull = member of ICAEW Council??
or possibly any partner in a big 5 firm ?

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By AnonymousUser
24th Oct 2000 21:18

Never
Entirely depends on the individual.
Happy to say I do not fall into that category, although I know several people who do!

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By jimwatson
25th Oct 2000 00:37

Types of accountants
There are THREE basic types of accountant: - those who can count and those who can't!?!

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