accountant
also referred to as: accountants
2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 21, 2024 by Rory Sutherland · across every show →
Everything said about accountant, oldest first
Jul 21, 2024 negative
Sutherland: Corporate culture forces creative ideas through rational review, but never vice versa
“There's this fundamental asymmetry, which is creative. People have to present their ideas to rational people for approval. Okay, fine. Don't mind that never happens the other way around. You never get engineers or accountants saying, well, I think the answer i…”
May 31, 2026
Evans: Accounting employment has consistently grown despite multiple waves of automation
“There's two charts in the presentation of the number of people employed as accountants, which went up right the way through the 20th century, and has gone up again since the beginning of the 21st century. So you have adding machines, and punch cards, and mainf…”