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The Definitive Guide to Business Finance: What smart managers do with the numbers, Second Edition
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The Definitive Guide to Business Finance: What smart managers do with the numbers, Second Edition

by Richard Stutely
July 2008
Beginner
432 pages
11h 40m
English
Pearson
Content preview from The Definitive Guide to Business Finance: What smart managers do with the numbers, Second Edition

The second oldest profession?

No doubt you have seen pictures of those ancient cave paintings where a bunch of woolly savages are chasing a woolly mammoth off a cliff. You probably noticed that the stick figure at the back was an accountant.

The first written use of the term bean counter was in a 1975 Forbes magazine article which referred to ‘a smart, tight-fisted and austere “bean counter” accountant from rural Kentucky’.

As soon as there were things to count, there were beanies. They went by other names back then, given that the first in their trade were probably preoccupied with divvying up woolly mammoth steaks, or counting bushels of grain going into storage for leaner days. All that tallying and remembering was tricky and prone to later ...

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