The Things They Say About Accountant’s Are They True
I have been working as an accountant for over 15 years, I have many role’s as an accountant working for many city firms across the London u.k, I am eventually now running my own online business — MBenn&co as an accountant. I believe accountants are important in the forever increasing world of business, other’s may think other wise.
Things they say about accountants — Are they true ?
It was accountants who brought down Chicago crime boss Al Capone. Although believed to be guilty of everything from bootlegging to murder, he was ultimately arrested and convicted of tax evasion.
Never new Mick Jagger was an accountant — Mick Jagger, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin and comedian Eddie Izzard are just a few of the famous names who worked in accounting before their showbiz careers took off.
Accounting has been around for millennia. Tokens dating back 7000 years were discovered in ancient Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq, Turkey and Syria). These are thought to be the earliest documented records of goods received and traded.
Accountants play an important role in the Oscars. Every year since 1935 a team of accountants has spent an average of 1700 hours prior to Oscar night counting the Academy Award ballots by hand.
Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli is regarded as the father of accounting.
He published the first book on double entry accounting in 1494.
Leonardo da Vinci was one of his students.
The Jokes they make about accountant’s
1: What does CPA stand for? Can’t Pass Again.
2: What’s the difference between an accountant and a lawyer? The accountant knows he’s boring.
3: What’s an accountant’s favourite book? 50 Shades of Grey.
4: How does Santa’s accountant value his sleigh? Net Present Value.
5: What did the accountant say when he got a blank check? “My deductions have finally caught up with the salary.”
6: How does an accountant stay out of debt? He learns to act his wage.
7: What do accountants suffer from that ordinary people don’t? Depreciation.
Like most entrepreneurs who started out for the first time, I felt I had a service I’d like to offer to people who found working out tax tricky, so why can’t I start my own online business? I hear that the idea of starting your own business begins with a conversation around the dinner table for me it was having a conversation with an accountant, whilst working at Bloomberg.LP I would like to here from like minded people like yourself about your journey as a new start up accountant’s.
