From Lickspittle Shite-a-bed comes this very funny “history” of auditors, including this gem: Stock­taking is a strange version of foreplay perculiar to auditors. The audit pack will arrive at an indus­trial premises at 6am in the morning and demand to know how many widgets they have. The auditors will then spend many happy hours counting the […]

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The Accounting Observer has invented a new term: Sarbitching. I love it!

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Sometimes when you search Technorati blog posts for the term “auditor” you get some inter­esting results. Highlights from a post on a MySpace blog by a guy who worked on the Enron audit with Arthur Andersen simply titled “Chuck Norris — Auditor”: Chuck Norris does not accrue for expenses. He accrues for pain. Chuck Norris not […]

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There have been scant refer­ences in the best animated comedies of our time — The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park — to accoun­tants. One that stands out was in the episode of The Simpsons when the April 15^th tax deadline rolled around. Ned Flanders did his taxes on January 1^st and mailed them out the […]

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