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unusual facts about accountant


Vocational Guidance Counsellor

The counsellor reveals that Anchovy had done an aptitude test, and that the results showed that the career Anchovy is most suited to is chartered accountancy.


Achmea

Then the Frisian accountant, Ulbe Piers Draisma, founds the "Onderlinge Brand Assurantie Sociëteit (Achlum)" in Achlum, Frisia, the Netherlands

Airdrieonians F.C.

Accountant and Airdrieonians fan Jim Ballantyne attempted, with the help of others, to gain entry with a club called "Airdrie United" who were essentially to be a reincarnation of Airdrieonians.

Alfredo Ripstein

Ripstein first worked as an accountant and then was hired by Simon Wishnack's Filmex company as a production manager and executive producer.

Ameresekere

Nihal Sri Ameresekere (born 1947), SriLankan accountant and public-interest activist

Auguste Strobl

The daughter of a royal chief accountant, she also appeared in the Gallery of Beauties gathered by Ludwig I of Bavaria.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Raised in North Platte, Nebraska, she graduated in April 2001 from Brigham Young University with a degree in Community Health, and went to work as a secretary, teacher, and accountant at an alternative high school in Provo.

Charlier

Joseph Charlier (1816–1896), Belgian self-described jurist, writer, accountant, and merchant

Cleve Cartmill

Before embarking on his career as a writer for pulp magazines, Cartmill had a wide number of jobs including newspaperman, radio operator and accountant, as well as, ironically, a short spell at the American Radium Products Company.

Columbus Destroyers

The Destroyers were sold to John H. McConnell, founder of Worthington Industries and majority owner of the Blue Jackets, and accountant Jim Renacci.

Crossing Hennessy

Loy's mother finally marries her accountant at the Cotton Tree Drive Marriage Registry to everyone's delight.

Drobný

Sheldon Drobny, American accountant and successful investor, formed the company that later became Air America Radio

Ed Stotsenberg

Originally the accountant for movie star Mary Pickford during the last 20 years of her life, Stotsenberg was one of the trustees of Mary Pickford Foundation established in the 1970s at the wishes of the star.

Fred J. Broomfield

Before coming to Sydney in the 1880s, where he gained employment as an accountant, Broomfield worked for the Kyneton (Victoria) Guardian and as a correspondent for the Melbourne Age.

Fritz Mühlenweg

There, Mühlenweg began to work as an accountant for Deutsche Luft Hansa, a newly formed airline company.

Gangoobai

She makes the trip to Mumbai to Ardra, which at that time is having financial difficulties, and there meets Daksha (Mita Vashisht), the manager, Waman Ponkshe (Purab Kohli), an accountant, Monisha (Nidhi Sunil), a model, the designer Rohan (Rajendranath Zutshi) and Jamshyd Mistry (Behram Rana), a rich elderly person.

Gary Rodríguez

In 1996, he was part of an internship with Jansen Pharmaceuticals, a division of Johnson & Johnson, working as an auditor and accountant in their factories in Puerto Rico and New Jersey.

Guru Nanak

His father was a patwari (accountant) for crop revenue in the village of Talwandi, employed by a Muslim landlord of that area, Rai Bular Bhatti.

Henry Grubstick

Henry is an accountant on the 3rd floor for Meade Publications who catches Betty's eye.

Hugh Henry

He has worked as an accountant with IBM UK Ltd, as a teacher and as a welfare rights officer with Strathclyde Regional Council.

James David Marwick

His wife, Lady Marwick, was a daughter of James B. Watt, solicitor, Edinburgh, with whom he had a son James Marwick, an accountant who founded one of the predecessor firms of KPMG.

James Macharia

James Wainaina Macharia (born 1959), Kenyan accountant and Cabinet Secretary for Health

Jan Pieterszoon Coen

On the second trip he acquitted himself so well of his commission, and made himself so remarkable by the success of his practice of commerce, that in October 1613 was appointed accountant-general of all VOC offices in East Indies and president of the head office in Bantam and of Jacatra (Jayakarta).

Japan Professional Bowling Association

Professional bowling in Japan is a licensed profession, very much like passing the bar exam for attorneys or getting a CPA to become an accountant.

Jeremy Doner

He wrote the adapted screenplay after working as a location accountant on the set of White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild, produced by Julie Corman, who he showed his experimental short scripts.

Jo Danville

She has revealed that she is a fan of the Alabama Crimson Tide college football team during a case involving stolen jewelry; and once worked for a burlesque club at college, but only as an accountant, much to the intrigue and later the disappointment of Mac.

John Minshull-Ford

In 1912 he married Dorothy Harmood-Banner, a daughter of the Liverpool accountant and M.P., Sir John Sutherland Harmood-Banner.

John Sleightholme

In March 2009, Sleightholme gave evidence in the court case against Jeremy Keith, Murdo Mackay, Derby County's former finance director Andrew MacKenzie, accountant Mark Waters and solicitor David Lowe who were all charged in relation to a fraud allegation centred on a loan from a Panama-based company that effectively saved Derby County after their relegation from the Premiership.

Jordan Routledge

After leaving school with three GCSEs at Grade C and above, Routledge became a trainee accountant at Batley based accountancy firm BC.

Karen MacInerney

Karen MacInerney (born 1970) is an American novelist who writes two genre book series - one a cozy mystery series about a bed and breakfast owner in an island community off the coast of Maine, the other a paranormal series with a strong streak of humour, about an accountant trying to ignore the werewolf gene she has inherited from her father.

Mateo Rosas de Oquendo

Notarial documentation shows him as engaged in the conquest of Tucumán, where he is named Accountant of Royal Finances and founds the city of La Rioja.

Mike Heron

He attended George Heriot's School, where his father was a teacher, and spent a year at Edinburgh University before leaving to start training as an accountant.

Moneymaker effect

The term was created after Chris Moneymaker, a 27-year-old accountant and amateur poker player from Tennessee, United States, outlasted 838 other players to win the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, thereby winning the US$2.5 million prize and the title of World Champion.

National College of Business and Arts

She migrated to the U.S. and worked as staff accountant at Avon Products, Inc. in New York, then went to California and worked as accounting and HR manager for Alcatel.

Participants in the Madoff investment scandal

Madoff's "listed" accountant, David G. Friehling, 49, the sole practitioner at Friehling & Horowitz CPAs, waived indictment and pleaded not guilty to criminal charges on July 10, 2009.

Patrick Spens, 1st Baron Spens

Spens was the eldest of the six children of Nathaniel Spens, a chartered accountant and managing director of state liquidation, born in Glasgow and of Frimley, Surrey, and Emily Jessie Connal.

Paul Szabo

He worked as an accountant for Price Waterhouse in Toronto from 1970 to 1974, and received certification from the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1973.

Philip Latham

In the late 1960s/early 1970s he was well known to British TV viewers for his portrayal of chief accountant Willy Izard, the "conscience" to hard-nosed oil company industrialist Brian Stead (played by Geoffrey Keen) in the BBC series The Troubleshooters (1965–72).

PN Saxena

He then shifted to Dehradun at an early age of 6–7 years to take admission in the first standard as his father was posted already in Dehradun as ‘Accountant’ in the Department of Irrigation.

Rameesh Kailasam

Mr. Ramesh Kailasam is a FCMA - Fellow Cost & Management Accountant from Institute of Cost Accountants of India and holds various certifications from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Indian Institute of Management and Asian Development Bank Institute, Japan.

Robert Shirley, 14th Earl Ferrers

He was educated at Ampleforth College, Ampleforth, Yorkshire, England, and then became a chartered accountant.

Ruth Gilligan

Gilligan's father is an accountant and her mother a speech therapist, her brother David is ten years her senior, and the family live in Blackrock.

Shakti Chattopadhyay

He passed Matriculation Examination in 1951 and got admitted to the City College to study commerce as his maternal uncle, who was a businessman and also his guardian, promised him a job of an accountant.

Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

The charity's patrons include Michael Palin and England Cricketer Michael Vaughan (his wife, Nichola Shannon, works as a management accountant for the Sheffield Children's Trust).

Skaggs family

1938 Joe Albertson, a district manager for Safeway, enters into partnership with L.S. Skaggs and the latter’s accountant, Tom Cuthbert, and opens first store in Boise, Idaho.

St George, Queensland

It gained national attention with the election of local accountant Barnaby Joyce to the Australian Senate following the 2004 federal election.

Thomas Petrolati

An investigation by the State Attorney General's office found that Petrolati was the main person Richard Vitale, House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi's accountant, relied on during his illegal campaign to lobby for legislation benefiting ticket brokers.

UFE

Uniform Evaluation, an examination towards Chartered Accountant designation

Walter Geraghty

Born at Hunters Hill to builder Martin Joseph Geraghty and Lilian Frederika Roberts, he attended school locally and became an audit clerk and accountant, although he lost his job during the Great Depression.


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