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Old 23rd December 2009 | 22:49
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Whirlygig

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From: Propping up bars in the Lands of D H Lawrence and Bishop Bonner
Allow me please to draw an analogy ...

When I went into accountancy training with a degree in physics, the general consensus amongst the Top 8 firms (with one of whom I trained) was that they specifically did not want trainees who had accountancy degrees; they wanted students who had maths, sciences, English, any but Accountancy, Finance and Business Studies.

The reasoning was that Accountancy degrees offered nothing in relation to real life finance; it was all wacky theories and current concepts - nothing that was actually useful to the real world of Companies Acts and double-entry bookkeeping.

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