Pssst. Heard about the new professional accounting and tax body - ACEWITACACCAAIMA? - (Yes, accounting and tax rolled up into just the one body!)
It will cost just £100 per annum, fixed for the next 10 years. (Yes, just £100 per annum!!!).
For that you get free, unlimited accounting and tax software which actually works!
You also get free quality CPD accounting and tax seminars at least four times a year within 30 miles of your home address. They will be taken by speakers who actually know what they are talking about.
And finally, they will oversee your AML compliance and training using plain English and without boring the pants off you, all for free.
Just wondering if there will be any takers?
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What will the members' designatory letters be and will they vary in the usual manner, A(ssociate) or F(ellow)
Brilliant! Now where do we sign?
Cheshire PBIA&T and RBIA&T (just because I like the colours) and grade 8 tap dancing.
Differentiating using colour is discriminatory and just not appropriate, in fact general grading using a hierarchy seems plain wrong as some accountants will feel slighted; all need to be viewed as equals just with some more equal than others.
Your system also sidelines Man in Pub who may know absolutely nothing about accountancy and tax but is so stupid that this message has yet to percolate his brain, in this proud profession of ours surely he deserves a belt. (I could have used his/her there but was then in danger of sounding like Sean)
I personally think an Institute with more rituals is probably the way to go, for years accountants have had the boring label appended so introducing a few ceremonies with aprons, rolled up trouser legs , dodgy handshakes (that are now a no no ), playing about with goat entrails and taking oaths regarding the mystery of the craft might capture the imagination of youth and lead to accountancy becoming a "fun" profession.
Once you sort all the designatory letters etc you then possibly ought to consider an Institute song.
01:52 am, had the rose wine really kicked in by then, hence the colour of your post, and a clue to my designatory letters below.
Regards
A Putey AIAWJABITW
"I'll protect you from the Hooded Claw, keep the vampires from your door", even Holly Johnson remembered Wacky Races. (I think Whacky Races may have been the X rated version)
Penelope Pitstop, the glamour gal of the gas pedal. (These days considered a very non environmentally friendly programme)
And, more to the point, will we each receive a certificate to hang on our walls alongside our birth certificates / college diplomas / marriage licences / decree absolutes / fishing permits?
Is it not a fishing licence you all need to have down south, up here we have no such requirement.
I think the challenge is to actually say something meaningful (with all the letters), so maybe see if perming say ICAS in helps, or other professional (and not so professional) bodies.