Yesterday a publisher asked me to consider writing a book about the current state of accounting.
I mentioned this to me elder soon last night as we were walking the dog. He groaned. “Not another smutty title, please” was his request.
“How about ‘Debit, Credit, F**kit'?” was my response.
The stars are at his request. He might be 18 today, but he still thinks there are some words his father should not know.
I happen to think the title encapsulates an argument remarkably well. It quite succinctly expresses the indifference of the profession to those it is meant to serve.
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Not in front of the dog!
Hahaha,,,,, I know exactly how he feels. My father is 97 and suffers from dementia. He comes away with things that I would not believe possible – and a son should not have to hear his father say such things. I am 65.
My father took to swearing in his last two years
He said it was the last freedom he had left to him
Accountancy gets a bad rap when, IMO, the problems really stem from placing profit first and treating economic ‘thoughts’ as hard science, despite lack of evidence. My choice of title would be:-
Greed is Natural My A**E
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It’s the book title of the year, maybe the decade… GOTTA be done!
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If it were up to me you would be taxed (no pun intended) with using your book The Joy of Tax as a basis for writing a course about taxation that would be part of a new citizen’s curriculum in our schools and colleges.
I think that Atul Shah and your colleague Prem S. have the accountancy literature covered Richard.
There is still a lot of re-education and redevelopment of tax theory and policy to be done urgently in this wreck of a country. I still believe your work on tax is extremely salient although I appreciate that it is always interesting for you personally to delve into other financial matters and also helps you to link tax reform and practice into a wider system.
Just my thoughts – you are of course a free agent.
Interesting
But actually, I am not sure what else to say and MMT is a mess to write about at present
And campaigning needs a new front to be opened now – and that us accountancy.
Fair enough.
But the public understanding and attitude to taxation is still very poor in my view.
And you are right about MMT that’s for sure.