do accountants enjoy their job?

acountants cannot do GOOD analysis. if they are such great analysts,why the hell are they working

hedge fund, make milions, retire at age 30.

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Why all this contention??????? Nothing better to do????????

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donstockbauer
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You need to count the convictions.

/BAH

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jmfbahciv

Bob Cain wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@enews3.newsguy.com:

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Reply to
Gary Sokolich

much more than accountants, that's for sure. accountants hardly get started in the low 40Ks at age 30.

Reply to
bird flu shot

the truth is, you guys are the same person and your self-stalking, arent cha?

Reply to
bird flu shot

Now there's an idea. Not a good one, but it's an idea. :-)

Bob

Reply to
Bob Cain

Just like everything else, it is a supply and demand issue.

Reply to
Ron Todd

one day, the demand will collapse and accounting will go the way of architecture.

Reply to
bird flu shot

The demand did collapse somewhere around 1965. Since then there has been an increasing glut of qualified accountants with its commensurate depressive effect on salaries.

I find the comparison with Architects strange. They are active builders and part of the wealth building process. We accountants are just necessary overhead.

Reply to
Ron Todd

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:17:37 GMT, in alt.accounting Ron Todd wrote in :

Computers ruined it, I tell ya.

Reply to
David Jensen

I'm a self-employed accountant. I wear what I want. I work from an office at home. I work when I want and stop work when I want.

I'm happy. You don't seem happy.

Reply to
Peter Saxton

What species of nerd are ice cream and cabbage?

Reply to
Peter Saxton

Counting is easy for must people. It's understanding things that a lot of people find hard to do well.

Reply to
Peter Saxton

That is odd. Here in Canada I find there is a steady demand for accounting types.

Reply to
Joe Canuck

No, computers made the job much easier and allowed more time for analysis.

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Joe Canuck

business management functions are 100% female.

this is because accounting is fundamentally secretarial. Being a male accountant is like being a male nurse or male secretary. Are you gay?

Reply to
bird flu shot

business management functions are 100% female.

One thing is certain, yer a troll.

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Joe Canuck

business management functions are 100% female.

That was established long ago, but then what else is the usenet good for these days. I think everyone who was serious about discussing accounting issues moved to the monitored forums long ago.

Reply to
Ron Todd

Historical note. Back when the Univac price went down enough for the fortune 100 to install them in their accounting departments, the first attrition started. Then something got out of kilder in the early

1960s and demand exceeded supply. The market quickly corrected and then the massive government subsidy of the educational system started to pump the supply up.

I think 1965 was the last year you could walk into a Dennys at lunch, announce yourself as an accountant and get three offers including a free lunch.

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Ron Todd

Yeah, that is the folk tale the computer apologists keep saying. When the main frames came in, the bookkeepers and section accountants were pink slipped out the door. The salary & wage savings more than paid for the computerization. (Probably the last time EDP actually did deliver a positive ROI.)

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Ron Todd

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