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An accountant is just the brains behind the bean-counting. The big delineation between an accountant and a bookkeeper is that a bookkeeper can and will soon be replaced wholly by computers/software.

An accountant actually...thinks. Reasons. Applies creative optimization models not easily modeled by computers to the huge elements of tracking company progress from myriad perspectives, simultaneously.

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Finance a la shmoop what is hiding written complaints? all right remember

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when you were a kid and your teacher sent home a note to your parents and not [Teacher gives boy a note]

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a good one you knew you were in big-time trouble so you know why not just hide

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the note what your parents don't see can't hurt you right? while hiding

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written complaints on Wall Street is kind of like that if an investment rep

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receives a written complaint from a client they are legally obligated to

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pass it along to their employer and their boss who has to add it to the reps

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[Submarine appears] U4 which is not a military submarine but a form that the rep has to

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use when registering with the stay you know for their license hiding written

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complaints is illegal and can get the rep in deep you know what and like in

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the real world it gets a lot worse than being grounded and you know having your [Person picks up Xbox console]

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xbox taken away for a week yeah good luck with that

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