Whilst sitting in the new Forbes – Chartered Accountants  office in Dunmow, Essex just the other morning,  John Forbes was thinking about how wrongly
some/all  accountants are considered to be boring and dull by the general public and where this theory has come from and why it is thought.

When a child is asked what he or she would like to be when they grow up replies of teacher, police officer, fireman and vet are all greeted with enthusiastic coos. Not many children receive a warm reception to their announcement they want to be an accountant. These number crunchers are perceived as being exceedingly dull and little more. Their ability to work with numbers misleads some into believing that they have no ability to use words adequately, that their level of communication is sub-par.

Accountants are not boring or dull as they are people like any others. They are no less or more interesting than teachers, police officers, firemen or vets even if their job is seen as being less ‘exciting’. However, the job of an accountant is often misunderstood. The image of a grey man stooped over a calculator tirelessly punching in sum after sum is perhaps true of some accountants but by no means all.

The world of finance has changed dramatically, even in just the past three decades. Finance is growing in influence and importance, and accountants help realise that. The need to have a wider understanding of the financial world at large has led to a broadening of expertise, business acumen and even personality. The job of an accountant is multifaceted and accountants need to be multidimensional to keep up.

Perhaps it is not that accountants are boring people but that they get excited over boring things. But accountancy is not just about pounds and pence and plus and minus columns. Accountants help revolutionise businesses, help develop programmes that will improve efficiency and ensure high standards throughout businesses. Financial law can be a significant aspect of an accountant’s job and the law is rarely seen as dull and boring since it is constantly evolving.

Accountants are constantly making financial decisions, the consequences of which go beyond the business or individual they are dealing with. Sensibility and reason are necessary qualities for accountants but that is not the same as being dull or boring.

Well at Forbes Chartered Accountants things are different to other accountants and things aren’t boring and dull. To see this for yourself, why don’t you visit www.forbesca.co.uk to find out exactly how and why John Forbes at Forbes – Chartered Accountants is definitely very different from the rest.

 

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