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Mark E 21 years ago

Hi

We are currently compiling a list (hopefully a top ten) of accountancy related songs and wonder if anyone knows of any in addition to the ones we have listed below.

We currently have mp3s for:

No 1 > SOX-31 (A Sarbanes-Oxley rap)

No 2 > KPMG - Our Vision of Global Strategy (Original)

No 3 > Accountancy Shanty

No 4 > The Accountant Song

No 5 > How Could I Live Without Filing Taxes?

No 6 > Ernst & Young Happy Day

No 7 > KPMG - Our Vision of Global Strategy (Jungle Mix)

No 8 > KPMG - Our Vision of Global Strategy (Hard rock version)

No 9 > KPMG - Our Vision of Global Strategy (Teutonic Master Mix)

As you can see the KPMG song is listed 4 times as there are (suprisingly) four different versions!

If you know of any any additional accountancy, audit or tax songs please lcan you let us know so that we can add them to the list.

To hear any of the above (they play in Windows Media Player) go to

formatting link

and you will see the chart at the bottom of the right hand column.

Many thanks

Mark

To email please send to snipped-for-privacy@accountancyFLUFFstudents.co.uk (remove FLUFF)

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DoobieDo 21 years ago

what happened to the Beatles - Taxman ?

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Paul A Thomas 21 years ago

Dude, Pink Floyd's "Money".

And my favorite lyrics "If it ain't no pencil pusher, it got to be a honkytonk queen" from Lynyrd Skynyrd's One More From The Road album, track called "Workin' for MCA".

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Troy Steadman 21 years ago

Presumably there must be some double-entry songs. Crossposted to uk.sex.mp3

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DW 21 years ago

accountancy

Money/Pink Floyd Tax Man/Beatles Take This Job and Shove it.

9 to 5

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Troy Steadman 21 years ago

Sorry, on a more serious note Goethe called Luca Pacioli's double-entry bookkeeping system "one of the most beautiful inventions of the human spirit" ("Nur Lumpe sinde Bescheiden").

There must be musicians who translated this sentiment into music even if it was only the Bonzo Dog DooDah Band.

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Catherine White 21 years ago

"Mark E" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net:

A friend of mine in Australia wrote new words to an old folk tune for an accountant's convention; he called it "The Dying Accountant". It's quite funny. Look for the cassette "Let's Get Serious" from the Inland Navigator's Bush Band, circa 1986.

Catherine

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DoobieDo 21 years ago

fluff removed....

gordon brown by the stranglers ?

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Ronald Raygun 21 years ago

Would you mind explaining the connection between the two quotes you have given? What has double-entry bookkeeping to do with modesty?

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John Blake 21 years ago

In message id on Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:38:41 GMT, DoobieDo wrote in uk.business.accountancy :

Gordon is a Moron by I can't remember who - covered by Rory Bremner at the weekend.

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John Redman 21 years ago

"John Blake" wrote

Jilted John.

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Elizabeth Smith 21 years ago

Accounting is the link, albeit a bit far fetched:

In "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" describes the double-entry system:

"What a thing it is to see the order which prevails throughout his business! By means of this he can at any time survey the general whole, without needing to perplex himself in the details. What advantages does he derive from the system of book-keeping by double entry! It is among the finest inventions of the human mind; every prudent master of a house should introduce it into his economy."

The other is a quote from a song called "Rechenschaft" Rechenschaft ablegen = to account for

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Ronald Raygun 21 years ago

Oooh, I'm impressed, hen! Far fetched indeed, and not a link I'd expect Troy to have had in mind.

Incidentally, it's not at all clear whether Goethe actually held this view he had young Werner express. It could easily have been tongue in cheek, as it might also have been to decry modesty as a false virtue.

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