WHY ACCOUNTANCY IS NOT BORING by Mr, A, Putey...
From Monty Python's Big Red Book

First let me say how very pleased I was to be asked on the 4th inst. to write
an article on why accountancy is not boring. I feel very very strongly that
there are many people who may think that accountancy is boring, but they
would be wrong, for it is not at all boring, as I hope to show you in this
article, which is, as I intimated earlier, a pleasure to write.

I think I can do little worse than begin this article by describing why
accountancy is not boring as far as I am concerned, and then, perhaps, go on
to a more general discussion of why accountancy as a whole is not boring. As
soon as I awake in the morning it is not boring. I get up at 7.16, and my
wife Irene, an ex-schoolteacher, gets up shortly afterwards at 7.22.
Breakfast is far from boring and soon I am ready to leave the house. Irene,
a keen Rotarian, hands me my briefcase and rolled umbrella at 7.53, and I
leave the house seconds later. It is a short walk to Sutton station, but by
no means a boring one. There is so much to see, including Mr Edgeworth, who
also works at Robinson Partners. Mr Edgeworth is an extremely interesting
man, and was in Uxbridge during the war. Then there is a train journey of
2 minutes to London Bridge, one of British Rail's main London terminal, where
we accountants mingle for a moment with stockbrokers and other accountants
from all walks of life. I think that many of the people to whom accountancy
appears boring think that all accountants are the same. Nothing could be
further from the truth. Some accountants are chartered, but very many others
are certified. I am a certified accountant, as indeed is Mr Edgeworth, whom
I told you about earlier. However, in the next office to mine is a Mr
Manners, who is a chartered accountant, and, incidentally, a keen Rotarian.
However, Mr Edgeworth and I get on extremely well with Mr Manners, despite
the slight prestige superiority of his position. Mr Edgeworth, in fact, gets
on with Mr Manners extremely well, and if there are two spaces at lunch it
is more than likely he will sit with Mr Manners. So far, as you can see,
accountancy is not boring. During the morning there are a hundred and one
things to do. A secretary may pop in with details of an urgent audit. This
happened in 1967 and again last year. On the other hand, the phone may ring,
or there may be details of a new superannuation scheme to mull over. The
time flies by in this not at all boring way, and it is soon ,when there is
only 1 hour to go before Mrs Jackson brings round the tea urn. Mrs Jackson
is just one of the many people involved in accountancy who give the lie to
those who say it is a boring profession. Even a solicitor or a surveyor would
find Mrs Jackson a most interesting person. At 10.00am, having drunk an
interesting cup of tea, I put my cup on the tray and then...( 18 pages
deleted here - Ed .) .. and once the light is turned out by Irene, a very
keen Rotarian, I am left to think about how extremely un-boring my day has
been, being an accountant. Finally may I say how extremely grateful I am to
your book for so generously allowing me so much space. (Sorry, Putey ! - Ed.)

Classic!