Accountancy has come along a way since 1875 when a judge in Bristol famously referred to accountants as an 'ignorant set of men'. Not long after, the Liverpool Courier compared accountancy to a 'refuge for the destitute' with accountants as maids-of-all-work to the commercial community. Worse, they had no special training and in many cases were 'absolutely incompetent for the work they profess to discharge'.
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