You can understand why artists are so different from accountants.

But as an entrepreneur you don't do accounting, you hire accountants.

And they're starting to dominate lots of professions doctors, lawyers, bankers, accountants.

I realize what I needed was accountants without borders, to follow that money.

But the market is saying, no, no, I don't necessarily believe those accountants.

So once again, this is kind of the offices, the accountants, the bookkeepers.

Overhead the accountants and the people cleaning the factory and et cetera, et cetera.

And you take out the liabilities, this is what the assets are worth according to the accountants.

The book value of the assets, or what the accountants within the company are saying the assets are worth.

And some of you accountants out there are like, oh, well, no, that's not just the money that they give you.

The more polite ones said, Well, you know, Indians make good software programmers and accountants, but they can't do the creative stuff.

Then they His servants are returned to Allah, their true Lord. Unquestionably, His is the judgement, and He is the swiftest of accountants.

It turns out to be the worse business decision of the 21st Century, because it was made by accountants and not by engineers.

So if you believe what the accountants or the bank management has said about their assets, if you wanted to just liquidate everything.

And I'm delighted that the Institute of Chartered Accountants in the U.K. has already set up a coalition to do this, an international coalition.

And when I say book value, that's just a fancy way of saying this is what our accountants say that we paid for the stuff.

So that's literally to pay the electric bills, to have people sitting there ready to make cupcakes, and I have accountants and all the rest.

But the paradox is, when a lot of these people slip into the policy making mode, that social awareness vanishes and they start talking like accountants.

One of my senior colleagues told me, when I was a youngster in this profession, rather proudly, that statisticians were people who liked figures but didn't have the personality skills to become accountants.

Sometimes you have to pay salespeople, so you might have sales expense, and then the stuff like the corporate office and the CEO's salary, and you have to hire auditors and accountants and all of that.