15 shocking things found among clients' paperwork

Accountants have long reported finding the most unexpected items in among the papers that clients send them to prepare accounts and tax returns.

Here's a selection of the 15 most shocking things we have ever heard about:

1. A piece of paper with a username & password for an online dating website and also details about flight times and days he could go to Bangkok.
   
2. The odd maggot or worm stuck to a receipt and a few more live wrigglers at the bottom of the box from a fishing tackle shop.
   
3. A pregnancy test (negative).
   
4. An HIV test result (also negative).
5. A client's topless holiday photos on the same memory stick as her accounting records.
   
6. A set of dentures.
7. Chewing gum (well chewed!)
8. A credit card still attached to the letter and pin number which had never been used.
   
9. A fishmonger's purchase invoices that were covered in fish skin and blood.
10. A flowery card with illegible writing and £50. Not for me as it turned out but the client’s birthday card from his granny.
    
11. A barbie doll's head, nothing else, just the head.  [Transpired it was used as a gear stick topper in the client's car]
12. A used teabag.
13. Some hard porn films in the bottom of a female client’s bag of papers. [Accountant was unsure whether to mention them to the client or not, as they suspected her husband hid them in there!]
    
14. False (finger) nails.
15. Receipts for adult toys and gentlemen's clubs of ill repute.