Richard Brooks
Bean Counters
Figures in the US are undeclared, because the firms are registered in Delaware and don’t have to publish accounts, (Location 225)
KPMG starred in the ultimate ‘nothing succeeds like failure’ story. (Location 250)
one quarter of chief executives of the FTSE100 largest UK companies are chartered accountants. (Location 324)
‘technocratism’, (Location 332)
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‘Double-entry bookkeeping was born out of the same spirits as the systems of Galileo and Newton, as the theories of modern physics and chemistry’; it ‘discloses to us the cosmos of the economic world’.5 (Location 427)
‘The Great Masters of the Medici Bank used accounting to create a financial machine that allowed them to dominate their age, both culturally and politically, like no family before them.’ (Location 502)
‘The proverb says: frequent accounting makes for long friendships.’ (Location 608)
‘When the tide goes out, you discover who’s been swimming naked.’ (Location 1055)
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