Yeah I know social media is the pits but im getting more than a little [***] off with people claiming to be chartered accountants when they are not.
I checked two today and neither were chartered nor certified. At best one of them had a bookkeeping qualification.
And it's these scumbags who shout the loudest giving [***] "advice" which make us all look like [***] idiots.
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Classy. Id tell your representing body as they tend to go in quite hard, but only if they know about it......
I'm quite impressed as to how you managed to get the sweary words past the swearbot.
Definitely worth informing the relevant body(s)
FWIW it's actually a neat (double) trick:
1. Add characters to the 'bad' word so that it's incorporated within a bigger 'word' (that appears not to be recognised by the oh-so-clever AI); and
2. Make those additional characters out of anything but normal text characters so that the human reader doesn't struggle to recognise the 'bad' word on its own.
For additional cheeky points, you can ensure those additional characters look like a censored string (like sticking two-fingers up at the not-so intelligent software)!
And yet your bastardised version has been 'translated' into an email address ... just because the software has an inflexible 'rule' regarding the @ character appearing anywhere within a string of text!
I wonder why so many people aren't fervent believers in the infallibility of artificial intelligence (let alone the Gadarene rush towards digital Armageddon)?
FWIW it's actually a neat (double) trick:
1. Add characters to the 'bad' word so that it's incorporated within a bigger 'word' (that appears not to be recognised by the oh-so-clever AI); and
2. Make those additional characters out of anything but normal text characters so that the human reader doesn't struggle to recognise the 'bad' word on its own.
For additional cheeky points, you can ensure those additional characters look like a censored string (like sticking two-fingers up at the not-so intelligent software)!
I don't know whether it still works but years ago you could use an ASCII character that acted as a space but in text it appeared as the full word, but bypassed the swearbot.
I'm more annoyed at the quoted “Accountants” as someone QBE, with more than 32 years experience, and more professional ethics than many who post on here have.
Exactly. Insurers offer professional indemnity for QBE so you can be an accountant without quotation marks. Chartered, not, of course.
To be fair to the OP, someone that is going to claim a qualification they don't have is not likely to be the good sort of unqualified.
But I quite agree. A decent QBE will beat a qualified person that has only done the exams every time. It's how you apply the knowledge, not how you acquired it, that matters.
I've come across one or two who display an "ACCA Approved Employer" badge that would fool most buyers. I have a sneaking suspicion I've come across a similar raft of would-be AAT members in practice, not dissimilar in style over substance.
The ICAEW used to have a link to a list of people masquerading as members, circa 2012, which I'm unable to locate immediately from my kitchen. It was on my work desktop recently when D.P. was doing the rounds here, pretending to be all sorts of Hell's Angels and things.
The ICAEW used to have a link to a list of people masquerading as members, circa 2012, which I'm unable to locate immediately from my kitchen.
Misdescribers list:
https://www.icaew.com/about-icaew/find-a-chartered-accountant/beware-of-...
Interestingly Crunch are on there - off to add this info to the relevant thread
Crunch appears as a firm who signed an undertaking
Yet they keep getting nominated for awards?
Crunch appears as a firm who signed an undertaking
Yet they keep getting nominated for awards?
The might be great for all i know. For all i know they might also have been ICAEW before, changed structure, etc and genuinely forgotten to take a logo off of a single page of their website. I just thought it topical that they were on the list when i looked for it.
99% of "Accountants" with or without the qualifications are completely fuching useless, IMO, any way.
They hand these qualifications out with the hundredth purchase of packets of cocoa pops. So, it's really not worth getting sweaty about.
I'm more concerned about all the qualified/chartered accountants plying their trade on internet sites such as people per hour and fivvr who don't have practising certificates nor insurance. They're typically employees of accountancy practices doing moonlighting on the side for ridiculously cheap fees.
Have you been in the depths of TikTok? Because you know, they are not (making a wild assumption here) in the same profession as most of us here. They are "accountants". Rather than accountants.
If a person goes to TikTok to find an 'accountant' then they get what they deserve. Not the kind of client I am looking for.
Frankly given how spelling and punctuation are both departing the 21st century (I got told this morning that neither matters anymore) just refer to yourself as a Chattered Accountant, 95% of readers will be none the wiser.
I seem to recall that, many moons ago, a firm I worked for signed an audit report off as [Firm Name] Chartered Accucunts or similar. Another firm used the phrase "Profit/(loss) arising on disposal of fixed assets". One might see that the omission of the first 'i' in 'arising' could cause some mirth. Unfortunately it happened all too often.