Accounting Objectives

Abstract

So! You think you’re interested in accountancy! You should be warned at this early stage that your interest may have two serious consequences. The first is that you may end up earning a living from it. The second is that people may class you as the Brain of Britain. This latter effect stems from the public at large refusing to have anything whatsoever to do with adding up (let alone taking away!). It was something they could not understand at school, and assumed it could be avoided thereafter. Accountancy appears to them as a closed book. Unfortunately the day does arrive when the closed book is needed, together with an interpreter (and come to that an author as well!).