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Friday, January 05, 2024
Punny accountant and their clients
Friday, February 18, 2022
Ten more puns for accountants
- Immature accountants don’t act their wage.
- Accountants don’t retire, they just close the books.
- Accountants are like gymnasts as they need to be good at finding their balance.
- Stoic accountants have good internal controls.
- Accountants like working in glass offices because transparency is important.
- My accountant's pre-tax income is gross.
- Accountants quit when they lose interest.
- Accounting can be accrual profession.
- Some accountants have great figures.
- Every accountant counts.
Friday, January 28, 2022
Ten accounting puns
- Be audit you can be.
- It’s accrual world.
- Make every day account.
- Mind the GAAP!
- Excel at everything.
- Accounting is a career for smart assets.
- An accountant’s biggest workout is crunching numbers.
- Don’t hate, depreciate.
- Accountants can be the LIFO the party.
- Stoic accountants have good internal controls.
Friday, January 22, 2021
Tax advice for fisherman in 2021
Following Brexit an accountant approached one his clients who was a fisherman.
I can see you floundering as things are being scaled back. I've been herring rumours you may be taking advice from salmon else. What's the reel fishue?
I know a fintastic plaice to start. Let's close your company down and set you up as a sole trader. I could shoal you why this could be cod for you. It sardinely an op-perch-tuna-ty worth considering.
Notfishstanding the net benefits we don't want HMRC to sea you doing anything fishy.
Why don't you mullet over.
I'm here all week....
Friday, February 20, 2015
A '50 shades of tax' pun
With all due credit to Arnie Haybridge who posted this on twitter
The only two certainties...
Benjamin Franklin famously observed that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. In technology, the two certainties are change an...
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The most obvious answer as to why accountants are sometimes referenced, disparagingly, as 'beancounters' might involve counting the ...
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An auditor is a man who watches the battle from the safety of the hills and then comes down to bayonet the wounded. Sir C...
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My friend doesn't include cash sales in his accounts. Why should I? Why should I have to pay tax, I have private healthcare and the kid...