Are chartered accountants farmers, hunters or herdsmen (without AK-47)?
Bashorun J.K. Randle
Published 17 May 2021
On the eve of the 2003/2004 conference, I was ambushed by the press and chartered accountants who were mostly partners of small and medium sized firms.
First, they alleged that President Olusegun Obasanjo had been making more serious accusations against chartered accountants along with disparaging remarks about our role in the management (or mismanagement)of the Nigerian economy. Hence, we should be ready for hellfire and brimstone when he would deliver his address to about 5,000 Chartered Accountants at the International Conference Centre.
What was of even greater concern to the small firms was that they were very angry that KPMG along with the other “Big 4” accountancy firms were about to launch a programme tagged, “Graduate Training”, ostensibly to train staff of small firms for six months and expose them to a different environment as well as skills se