The engineering underneath the numbers
I am an FCMA — a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, and it took me a great many years to get there. I’m proud of it. People assume that accounting is the dry part of my life and the rest of this site is the interesting part. They have it slightly wrong. What I love about accounting is the engineering: the systems underneath the numbers, the way information moves through a business, and the fact that a…