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Re:Do you want to sell sugar water or do you want to change ... by patio11 on Monday August 29, 2011 @05:11AM (#2936516)
You also don't see breathless AccountingCrunch articles about accountants getting $41 million to develop accounting for pets and similarly silly things.

I don't agree with the normative implication here, but strongly suggest you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. It will help expand your worldview vis-a-vis questions like "Is accounting Important?" or "Is $41 million a lot of money?"

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Re:Do you want to sell sugar water or do you want to change ... by code_duck on Monday August 29, 2011 @10:24AM (#2937255)
"Is $41 million a lot of money" is a perspective-less question. Is it a lot of money for an individual? Tell me you don't think so. Is it a lot of money for an investment bank? Doubtlessly not.

Did the person you're responding to somehow say accounting was not important? How will the Wall Street Journal help me understand that further and why do you assume we need that insight based on all of this?

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Re:Do you want to sell sugar water or do you want to change ... by tptacek on Monday August 29, 2011 @12:10PM (#2937646)
All he's saying is that it's not a lot of money for accountants.
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Re:Do you want to sell sugar water or do you want to change ... by code_duck on Monday August 29, 2011 @04:47PM (#2938890)
Not much to take home or own part of, or not much to push around on someone else's behalf? I have yet to understand. The first seems pretty unlikely, unless accounting is a much better career path than I've heard, and the second seems irrelevant.
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Re:Do you want to sell sugar water or do you want to change ... by chc on Monday August 29, 2011 @02:37PM (#2938262)
Since it sounds like I gave the wrong impression, just to clarify: I'm not trying to imply that accounting is unimportant. What I said (jokingly) is that there are probably better uses for accounting knowledge than trying to teach it to pets, and if accountants regularly engaged in such fanciful ventures, you'd probably see similar articles about their profession.
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