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Why do people hate accountants?

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Question added by Ghada Sameer , Project Manager and media executive , CQA
Date Posted: 2015/08/02
Dan Danescu
by Dan Danescu , Operations Manager , ITAG

The truth seen by accountant could be different than the truth accepted by money owner or the person who is asking capital. But the last one has to accept the accountant statement as being documented with instruments like "1-1=0". No one can fight with this as long as answer is coming from a proven competent accountant.

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by Deleted user

Not all people hate accountants but only the people who work in the same company . Because accountants ask why this amount paid and so on .

FITAH MOHAMED
by FITAH MOHAMED , Financial Manager , FUEL AND ENERGY CO for transportion petroleum materials

please

Upgrade your questions and focus on the goal of the question not the quantity,

specially repetitions questions 

Greetings and best  wishes for success

Mehboob Ali Laghari
by Mehboob Ali Laghari , Social Mobilization Team Incharge , TRDP-European Union

Regardless the importance of question, i would say, No "Professional" dislikes Accountants...

Malik Khalid Mahmood
by Malik Khalid Mahmood , Regional Finance Manager , Leosons International FZ LLC

Because they cannot compete with the accountant who is multi function person

Khaled Abdelrehim ACCA DipIFR CMA
by Khaled Abdelrehim ACCA DipIFR CMA , Financial Analysis Assistant General Manager , Khalda Petroleum Company

Do they?

Accounting is a reporting tool aims to give the proper information for a wide range of users (investors, lenders, employees, management, suppliers, employees unions, etc) so i think that mostly all the others need information from accountants.

Khairy Mohamed Elbanna
by Khairy Mohamed Elbanna , Chief of Accounts , ASASCO.

 

I'm an accountant and I hate telling people what I do for a living - they always immediately assume that I'm boring! I can only guess that because most people don't actually understand what it is that accountants do, they assume it's a boring job, and therefore that the people doing it are boring too! Yes, it is a desk job, and often9-5, but there is an awful lot of brain work involved, not everyone could do it. I have met some boring accountants, but you get boring people in all walks of life. Maybe there is a slightly higher concentration of boring people among accountants than people with more 'exciting' jobs, but those of us who are ordinary people that happen to be accountants do hate being tarred with the 'boring' brush!

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