The system is highly run by accountants there's not enough, or any, food knowledgeable people in the business.

New professions that were obliged to report suspicious financial transactions were accountants, lawyers and dealers in high value goods.

Instead, America s favorable borrowing terms attest to the power of misleading government accounting.

But the paradox is, when a lot of these people slip into the policy making mode, that social awareness vanishes and they start talking like accountants.

If we cannot rely on the best auditors, can we continue to trust chartered accountants?

For commodity items that one cannot track individually, accountants must choose a method that fits the nature of the sale.

Good practices were elaborated with the Accountants and Tax Consultants Association (VLB) and the umbrella organisation for notaries in the Netherlands, Notaries' Network', for use in practice.

Narrator Computers, once the unwieldy tools of accountants and other geeks, escaped the backrooms to enter the media fracas.

During the reporting period, the secretariat worked closely with the Eastern, Central and Southern African Federation of Accountants (ECSAFA), the African Institute of Corporate Citizenship and various national accountancy bodies in Africa.

Current assets Current assets are cash and other assets expected to be converted to cash or consumed either in a year or in the operating cycle (whichever is longer), without disturbing the normal operations of a business.