The Audit Wheel of Fortune

With all due credit to Liam Higgins Saunders (who is 'Colin') at Accountancy Age's Taking Stock where this cartoon originally appeared.

A real beancounter....

With many thanks to Tony Nedderman in HK for passing this on to me.

Not how it was in my day.....

If accountants featured on the cover of Vogue

Cartoon by Neil Kerber

Not sure how an accountant would do this....

Harold Rosenbaum Chartered Accountant Extreme

This is the first of a five part series. You can find the rest on YouTube if you care..

For some people IFRS could be a good thing

(This cartoon first appeared in Taking Stock on AccountancyAge.com on 3 June 2011 under the heading: Colin: a tricky financial question)

Does this make the 'city accountants' good or bad?

Better late than never. This appeared in the Metro a while back.

What do taxes pay for? (The Simpsons)

Dilbert and the tax sandwich

Scott Adams's take on Google's reported use of the Dutch Sandwich tax scheme

Punk accountants

When you're a magician and Daddy's an accountant

With due credit to Leo Cullum. Published in The New Yorker 10/4/2004

Auditors and banks - according to Alex

Published in the Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 9 November 2010

The client accountants love to hate

"Hello Accounts Lady"
"Nemi?" "I'm busy, what are you doing here?"
I just wanted to say 'Hi'

"And?"
"And that I've brought my accounts for 2009."
"Good"

"Here they are. Must dash!"

Nemi by Lise appears in The Metro. This cartoon published 26 October 2010

Lonely hearts - accountant style

Found on CareersInAudit.com

Why are you looking?

Dilbert goes offshore...

How Private Eye sees the Office for Tax Simplification

Dilbert's take on Income tax enquiries

Superman vs Taxman

Back in 1961 a Superman comic story (#148) was based around how the IRS (US Internal Revenue Service) pursued the Man of Steel for unpaid taxes.

A junior investigator noted that there was no record of Superman ever paying tax. And what with all the reward money he earned for capturing criminals plus all the diamonds he made from coal...

Evidently there was a lot of tax at stake. $1 billion (remember this was 1961). Superman's first defence was that he gave away all his 'earnings'. But the IRS noted that many millionaires give substantial sums to charity. This does not absolve them from a a liability to tax.

Superman spends the rest of the story frantically scrambling for extra cash, only to lose his instant riches through a series of endearingly goofy Silver Age plot twists, such as Bizarro showing up and transforming a collection of priceless ivory into Ivory Soap! At one point, Superman even hits up Aquaman to find him a giant clam containing an equally giant pearl.

Despite the setbacks, Superman managed to collect an impressive cache of rare treasures, only to see them devoured by a matter-eating space monster! This lead to a rare display of temper from the normally even-keeled Superman...as the pressure to meet his taxation deadline caused him to hurl the source of his anxiety into outer space.

Happily, after returning to the IRS, Superman is informed that he's off the hook for the billion-dollar tax bill...though the reasoning behind the clever last-minute reprieve is a bit of a stretch... (Only in America!)