Comments on: Inaccessible accountants? http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/07/31/inaccessible-accountants/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:01:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: alastair http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/07/31/inaccessible-accountants/comment-page-1/#comment-1511 alastair Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:24:08 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/07/30/inaccessible-accountants/#comment-1511 as well as golf, I used to be into cars (before my kids appeared on the scene) - you are quite right about jeremy, and I stand corrected. Mind you he does have a lot of chips on his shoulders!!! as well as golf, I used to be into cars (before my kids appeared on the scene) – you are quite right about jeremy, and I stand corrected. Mind you he does have a lot of chips on his shoulders!!!

]]> By: Richard Murphy http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/07/31/inaccessible-accountants/comment-page-1/#comment-1510 Richard Murphy Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:35:55 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/07/30/inaccessible-accountants/#comment-1510 Alastair You've never come across a golfist before? You clearly don't watch Top Gear. Jeremy Clarkson makes me look like a positive enthusiast for the game. :-) Richard Alastair

You’ve never come across a golfist before? You clearly don’t watch Top Gear. Jeremy Clarkson makes me look like a positive enthusiast for the game. :-)

Richard

]]> By: alastair http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/07/31/inaccessible-accountants/comment-page-1/#comment-1509 alastair Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:59:47 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/07/30/inaccessible-accountants/#comment-1509 Richard, how about if your passions are golf and accountancy? I know it sounds sad, but it could happen! p.s. I have never stumbled across anyone who is golfist before! Richard, how about if your passions are golf and accountancy? I know it sounds sad, but it could happen!

p.s. I have never stumbled across anyone who is golfist before!

]]> By: John Diffenthal http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/07/31/inaccessible-accountants/comment-page-1/#comment-1508 John Diffenthal Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:12:28 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/07/30/inaccessible-accountants/#comment-1508 Richard Apologies, I was trying to be lighthearted. Mea culpa. Richard

Apologies, I was trying to be lighthearted.

Mea culpa.

]]> By: Richard Murphy http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/07/31/inaccessible-accountants/comment-page-1/#comment-1507 Richard Murphy Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:04:42 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/07/30/inaccessible-accountants/#comment-1507 John Now here's the serious point. It's not just me who doesn't play golf. I know vast numbers of accountants who don't - and most of them have the clients anyone whould want. The myth that business is done in the golf club is based on fact - but what class of business do you want? That run by people who so lack commitment they spend the day hitting little balls into big bunkers of sand, or that run by people whose passion is for what they do? I knew - which was another good reason not to take up golf Richard John

Now here’s the serious point.

It’s not just me who doesn’t play golf. I know vast numbers of accountants who don’t – and most of them have the clients anyone whould want.

The myth that business is done in the golf club is based on fact – but what class of business do you want? That run by people who so lack commitment they spend the day hitting little balls into big bunkers of sand, or that run by people whose passion is for what they do?

I knew – which was another good reason not to take up golf

Richard

]]> By: John Diffenthal http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/07/31/inaccessible-accountants/comment-page-1/#comment-1506 John Diffenthal Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:16:14 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/07/30/inaccessible-accountants/#comment-1506 Richard I can handle ethically dubious - I was employed by both PwC and KPMG. A good friend of mine once told me that golf isn't a game - it's a disease. but it's given me an idea about advertising to accountants using space in Club Houses! I realise that this novel advertising approach would miss you out, so I'll probably have to buy space somewhere in Accman Pro as well. Richard

I can handle ethically dubious – I was employed by both PwC and KPMG.

A good friend of mine once told me that golf isn’t a game – it’s a disease. but it’s given me an idea about advertising to accountants using space in Club Houses! I realise that this novel advertising approach would miss you out, so I’ll probably have to buy space somewhere in Accman Pro as well.

]]> By: Richard Murphy http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/07/31/inaccessible-accountants/comment-page-1/#comment-1505 Richard Murphy Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:04:54 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/07/30/inaccessible-accountants/#comment-1505 John Some of us also dislike both hospitality tents on the grounds that they're ethically dubious and golf because we have bette things to do in life. Which doesn't help you either! <a href="http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/blog/" rel="nofollow">Richard</a> <a href="http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/blog/" rel="nofollow"> http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/blog/</a>. John

Some of us also dislike both hospitality tents on the grounds that they’re ethically dubious and golf because we have bette things to do in life.

Which doesn’t help you either!

Richard
http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/blog/.

]]> By: John Diffenthal http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/07/31/inaccessible-accountants/comment-page-1/#comment-1504 John Diffenthal Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:51:19 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/07/30/inaccessible-accountants/#comment-1504 Gentlemen, if so many of you dislike the journal, why don't you vote with your feet like Stuart Jones? The fact that few of you read it makes my job harder of course - I still need access to the accounting community and this debate has illustrated why that isn't going to be entirely straightforward. I like the idea of meeting you all in hospitality tents, but that's a very slow method of developing any significant level of reach. Gentlemen, if so many of you dislike the journal, why don’t you vote with your feet like Stuart Jones? The fact that few of you read it makes my job harder of course – I still need access to the accounting community and this debate has illustrated why that isn’t going to be entirely straightforward. I like the idea of meeting you all in hospitality tents, but that’s a very slow method of developing any significant level of reach.

]]> By: BusinessMatters http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/07/31/inaccessible-accountants/comment-page-1/#comment-1503 BusinessMatters Tue, 01 Aug 2006 17:09:47 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/07/30/inaccessible-accountants/#comment-1503 <strong>Think about your business...</strong> My colleague Dennis Howlett started an interesting (for chartered accountants) discussion on his blog yesterday. He highlighted a comment made by John Diffenthal about access to accountants. In a nutshell John asked why so many chartered accountants do... Think about your business…

My colleague Dennis Howlett started an interesting (for chartered accountants) discussion on his blog yesterday. He highlighted a comment made by John Diffenthal about access to accountants. In a nutshell John asked why so many chartered accountants do…

]]> By: Stuart Jones http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/07/31/inaccessible-accountants/comment-page-1/#comment-1502 Stuart Jones Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:30:02 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/07/30/inaccessible-accountants/#comment-1502 Thank you everyone for your advice. I have cancelled my subscription today. Thank you everyone for your advice. I have cancelled my subscription today.

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