Attitudes Toward the Accountant A prominent financial analyst, who became very successful with his Wall Street investments, once commented:

“My experience with the accountant is that for him everything has equal importance. He is like the Lord in the Bible, where it is written that ‘a thousand years are in His sight as yesterday’ when it is past—except that it is just the other way around with the accountant: 10 cents in the balance sheet is just as important as a million dollars. The main thing for him is that every figure should be correct.”

Elbert Hubbard, a philosopher popular in the twentieth century, made the following remarks:

“The typical auditor is a man past middle age, spare, wrinkled, intelligent, cold, passive, non-committal, with eyes like a codfish, polite in contact, but at the same time unresponsive, cold; calm and damnably composed as a concrete post or a plaster-of-paris cast; a human petrification with a heart of feldspar and without charm of the friendly germ, minus bowels, passion, or a sense of humour. Happily, they never reproduce and all of them finally go to Hell.”

In general, do you agree with the remarks above? Why?

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