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ATLANTA BALTIMORE BOSTON BUFFALO CHICAGO CINCINNATI CLEVELAND DALLAS DENVER DETROIT KANSAS CITY LOS ANGELES MINNEAPOLIS NEWARK NEW ORLEANS HASKINS & SELLS CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS BULLETIN EXECUTIVE OFFICES HASKINS & SELLS BUILDING 37 WEST 39TH ST., NEW YORK NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA PITTSBURGH PORTLAND SAINT LOUIS SALT LAKE CITY SAN FRANCISCO SEATTLE TULSA WATERTOWN HAVANA LONDON PARIS SHANGHAI VOL. V NEW YORK, OCTOBER 15, 1922 No. 10 The Accountant Who Walks Alone SELF-RELIANCE is an admirable trait. Resourcefulness and courage have won many a battle. Only original thought will solve certain problems. But the accountant who is so independent that he refuses to take counsel; who is so short-sighted that he is annoyed by advice; and who, most of all, resents criticism, is headed for anything but complete success. Success, obviously, is a relative term. Any attempt to define it, except in a flippant manner, meets with a problem which is at once perplexing and discouraging. What would fit the condition of one individual is far from applicable to the next. Some men measure success in dollars; others in satisfactory accomplishment. To some it means position and social standing, or a goodly portion of creature comforts. However one might be disposed to quibble over definitions it would probably be admitted that progress is an element of success. He who plods along, year after year, without elevation in rank or increase in compensation, may rightly be adjudged lacking in progress. Such cases, if analyzed, would probably show as the causes, extreme diffidence, apathy toward study or improvement of the mind, and false concepts of independence founded on conceit and ignorance. There are accountants who have attained some measure of success when judged by comparison with a former state. In the light of comparison with other men who started out with them on an equal footing they are rank failures. In no field as in accountancy, perhaps, are there such striking contrasts of success and failure among men. Those in one group have improved every opportunity of increasing their fund of knowledge. Taking the ten talents entrusted to them they have gained ten more. Unceasing study, developing the power of absorbing and classifying information, and learning to apply their knowledge to each new problem, have made them increasingly valuable. The other group contains the men who are content to function in a mechanical fashion, figuratively speaking, posting the blue tickets to the left-hand side of the ledger; the red ones to the right. They have neglected the precious chance of learning and of developing mentally. Pride has kept them from accepting suggestions as to their work or plan of professional life.
Object Description
Title |
Accountant who walks alone |
Author |
Anonymous |
Subject |
Accounting as a profession |
Citation |
Haskins & Sells Bulletin, Vol. 05, no. 10 (1922 October 15), p. 73-74 |
Date-Issued | 1922 |
Source | Originally published by: Haskins & Sells |
Type | Text |
Collection | Deloitte Digital Collection |
Digital Publisher | University of Mississippi Libraries. Accounting Collection |
Date-Digitally Created | 2009 |
Identifier | HS Bulletin 5-p73 |