Looking back over the last couple of years or so, are you aware that there has been a great deal of adverse coverage of the accountancy profession?

From mid-2001 onwards the mass media has been full of stories about alleged accounting ‘scandals’. So it is not surprising that the accountancy profession has taken some hard knocks during this period. However, it will perhaps surprise many accountants that their profession appears to be less highly regarded than estate agents and telecom companies.