ACCOUNTANTS CAN BE REBELS WITH A CAUSE, SAYS AUTHOR GLEESON-WHITE
May 22nd, 2015
Best-selling Australian author and accounting historian Jane Gleeson-White sees accountants as potential revolutionaries with the power to save the planet. Now, there’s a thought.They need to be creative, however. And while such tactics are generally associated with the mafia and corporate crooks, laundering the proceeds of drug cartels or squirrelling profits away from the view of the taxman, Gleeson-White, 54, challenges this perception. In her view, accountants need to be creative to trigger “the revolution capitalism has to have”.Of course, the public ...
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