They will know your social graph and habitual patterns and, increasingly, like any good executive assistant, make helpful suggestions. ("Do you want me to invite your accountant to this meeting?
"Although I've never worked for a bank before, I feel quite at home there because I used to work for an accountant and I'm used to dealing with figures. "
Coincidentally, as I read those words, I was sitting in a house in Shanghai with a copy of that very book which my landlord, a respectable accountant, had just lent me.
They are indispensable tools for any management accountant but, as Irecently found, they can also be applied to situations that are far removed from the world of work.
With just four big accounting firms remaining, and none of the next tier big enough to take up the slack, the corporate world cannot easily handle another accounting-firm failure.