The following are excerpts fromThe Reckoning. "The period between 1946 and 1961 has been called a golden age for accounting, with trust in the industry widespread and robust. Yet something in the culture of accounting had changed since the nineteenth century. It now was a subject only for the expertly informed, inscrutable even to the best educated citizen. Accountants now become synonymous not only with professional success but also with the dehumanizing large-scale number crunching of the mainframe computer age."

What are your reactions to these statements?