Paper work

Every finance guy experienced one strange feeling: the old financial year has just been finished and now you need to close it. During that year you probably had hundreds, thousands or hundreds of thousands transactions, hundreds and hundreds documents, names, claims, accounting sheets, numbers, checks, bills, invoices etc. and now you need to get it arranged, printed, sealed, punched, stapled, put in one folder and found a place in the bookkeeping case, wardrobe or whatever.

Today I had those very thoughts when I was preparing R&K accounting. But also I tried to imagine all those millions of people in the whole world who do that job in their day-to-day work.


Who are they? I imagined Russian accountants. Most probably they look like these:


Most of them are women. I met a lot of them in my work up to now (about one third wears eye-glasses and old-fashioned but very comfortable clothes):


I saw big Accounting Departments with hundreds accountants and their young assistants and small counting-houses of two or even one part-time workers:


Starting from the fifteenth century these people, accountants, use double-entry bookkeeping which was invented by Luka Pachelli. Many people consider double-entry bookkeeping as something strange, cheating or even faking. That's so funny! :)
And of course the most famous and powerful accountants were Jewish (as in Schindler's list). Even now we sometimes regard them as sly and treacherous - such a prejudice! Isn't it funny! :))

These thoughts made me laugh and I went on my endless and maybe needless work bending over bookkeeping stuff:



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