Preface

If you were building a house, would you hire an architect, give her some money and say, “Build me a house?” If you did, the house might end up on the front cover of an architectural magazine, but it might not be a house you would want to live in. I suggest you might benefit from learning a bit about architecture before building a house so that you could work with the architect to build the house you want to live in. Similarly, if a surgeon (who is paid to cut people open, who enjoys cutting people open, and who honestly believes she can best cure people by cutting them open) suggests an operation, you would be smart to learn about your illness and get a second opinion before having the surgery.

Accounting is no different, and it is much ...

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