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ATLANTA BALTIMORE BIRMINGHAM HASKINS & SELLS PHILADELPHIA PITTSBURGH PORTLAND BOSTON BUFFALO CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS PROVIDENCE SAINT LOUIS CHICAGO SALT LAKE CITY CINCINNATI SAN DIEGO CLEVELAND BULLETIN SAN FRANCISCO DALLAS SEATTLE DENVER TULSA DETROIT WATERTOWN KANSAS CITY LOS ANGELES MINNEAPOLIS HAVANA NEWARK LONDON NEW ORLEANS E X E C U T I V E OFFICES PARIS NEW YORK HASKINS & SELLS BUILDING 37 WEST 39TH ST., NEW YORK SHANGHAI VOL. VI NEW YORK, DECEMBER, 1923 No. 12 Professional Ambition A DESIRE for progress is undoubtedly the motive for all individual human endeavor. Progress is a relative term. It consists in getting some place where one isn't, being something which one hasn't been, or having something not heretofore enjoyed; the desire for all of which, from the viewpoint of a human being, is perfectly natural. Desire for progress is the sort of thing which makes the farmer's son aspire to a city job; the chauffeur's daughter want to go to college; and hundreds of thousands of business men seek opportunities for financial reward which bring greater economic ease; in a word, "ambition." It is not inconceivable that ambition might be the actuating motive for a widespread accountancy organization. The value to business of genuine accountancy service needs no argument. Could the natural resources of the country have been developed and America brought to the present economic forefront without far-reaching organizations of capital and business talent? Could an individual accountancy practitioner alone audit the accounts of one of the great industrials or the huge financial institutions? Could the accountancy organization of average size establish audit control simu-taneously in twenty-five offices of a business concern spread over the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific? Does not big business organization invite large scale accountancy service? Is there any reason, therefore, why the individual proclivity of ambition may not find justifiable expression in a desire on the part of a group of professional accountants to serve business, no matter how large, how ramified, or how complicated the affairs of any business organization may be? No! Granting the accountants are morally sound, technically competent, and render efficient professional service in the true sense of the word.
Object Description
Title |
Professional ambition |
Author |
Anonymous |
Subject |
Ambition |
Citation |
Haskins & Sells Bulletin, Vol. 06, no. 12 (1923 December), p. 89-90 |
Date-Issued | 1923 |
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 6-p89 |