Beyond Numbers, August 1st, 2003
INTHEPASTYEAR, there's been a wave of books on the accounting profession. One of these books is Unaccountable: How the Accounting Profession Forfeited a Public Trust by Mike Brewster (2003, John Wiley & Sons), which I recently picked up. Unaccountable chronicles the profession's history from early crop recordings in 6500 B.C. through to the present day. It's an interesting read, providing a historical context in a world where all too often we live only in the moment.
The book ends with a forecast for the future of accounting. Acknowledging that the profession is in the midst of rapid, tra...
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