Bean Counter Culture

[crawdiddy]

In the interest of frivolous polling, how do RFF'ers feel about Legumes, et les enumerateurs des legumes? Please check all that apply:

 

[newspaperguy]

Como?

Are we missing something?

 

[Gumby]

Are you talking beans in chili versus chili with no beans? There's a wide cultural divide between these two leguminous options.

 

[Al Kaplan]

So that's how some folks get GAS? I always wondered about that.

 

[bean_counter]

HEY!

What do you WANT the answer to be?

 

[vincentbenoit]

I like them too.

Vincent

 

[crawdiddy]

HEY!

What do you WANT the answer to be?

Hello bean_counter,

Please accept my apoligies for the (hopefully) good-natured ribbing. No one doubts that beans must be counted. Still, that does not stop us from a joke or 2 at the expense of the counters.

 

[dmr]

Sarbanes-Oxley? I haven't heard of that one in YEARS!

Nowadays it seems like PCI is the fire-drill du jour!

Q: How many accountants does it take to change a light bulb?

A: How many do you want? They can give you any number you want! 🙂

 

[bean_counter]

Hello bean_counter,

Please accept my apoligies for the (hopefully) good-natured ribbing. No one doubts that beans must be counted. Still, that does not stop us from a joke or 2 at the expense of the counters.

taken in VERY good humor 😀

The "what do you want the answer to be?" is an old, old auditor joke that sadly has become too true too often in recent years. As I am in manufacturing, at a plant, I like to poke a bit of fun at the auditors, too. Call it payback.

regarding beans - I prefer cheese to beans 😛

 

[crawdiddy]

Sarbanes-Oxley? I haven't heard of that one in YEARS!

Nowadays it seems like PCI is the fire-drill du jour!

Q: How many accountants does it take to change a light bulb?

A: How many do you want? They can give you any number you want! 🙂

I guess that's what bean_counter alluded to with his "What do you WANT the answer to be?" reply.

I work for an IT outsource company. Sarbanes-Oxley made a big splash, but the ugly effects remain.

 

[dmr]

I work for an IT outsource company. Sarbanes-Oxley made a big splash, but the ugly effects remain.

Back in the days, if we needed to get Cap. Ex. approved and the Powers That Be balked at it, citing S-O was the magic word that applied the grease. Today, the same can be said for PCI.

Thinking back to around 1999, Y2K was the equivalent command to shake the dollars loose back then. 🙂

 

[f16sunshine]

Is it not true that the word "lens" comes from the Latin word for Lentil.........."len". Maybe there is no irony in that and this thread.
Don't listen to me I'm an Idiot! 😉

 

[crawdiddy]

Is it not true that the word "lens" comes from the Latin word for Lentil.........."len". Maybe there is no irony in that and this thread.
Don't listen to me I'm an Idiot! 😉

I believe you're right, f16. Who knew!

 

[Pete H]

How many beans make five?

 

[Bob Michaels]

The "what do you want the answer to be?" is an old, old auditor joke that sadly has become too true too often in recent years.

Actually not that old to me. The line is from Abramam Briloff's book "Unaccountable Accounting" published in 1972. The line was: when a company was interviewing a new auditing firm and asked "how much is two plus two?" The new chosen auditing firm, identified as "one of the Arthur's"* came up with that reply.

* back in the days of the "Big 8" CPA firms, two of them were Arthur Andersen & Co. and Arthur Young & Co.

 

[rbiemer]

CAMPBELL'S

HEINZ

JOAN OF ARC

Rob

 

[MickH]

How many beans make five?

One bean, two beans, a bean-and-a-half and half-a-bean.

 

[JohnTF]

I believe you're right, f16. Who knew!

From the shape, of the bean, lentils came before people made lenses. ;-)

Leitz is German for Lentil. ;-)

 

[Rick Waldroup]

There should never, ever be beans in a good bowl of chili.....

 

[ruby.monkey]

I love accountants so much that I married one.