Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Thursday, Mar 28, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Thursday, Mar 28, 2002 |
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Opinion
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Accountancy Columns - Account Speak Behind bars
WHENEVER there is a congregation of accountants, it becomes necessary perhaps for the speakers to project themselves as espousing a common cause so that they are seen as champions of the profession. One such cause — that I have been coming across bar bar — has been the plight of arrested accountants. Nobody is shocked by the thought of accountants being jailed because after all they are humans and the law, at times, takes its course. However, what could be shocking is that some of the veteran CAs deem it fit to say that the entire fraternity of auditors is behind the ones who are tormented by the cops and the judiciary. But I don't find it amusing to proclaim my fellowship with some crook who happens to be a CA. Somebody who is being dragged to the thana for writing a bouncer of a cheque, misappropriating money or attempting to burn a bride. After all, a CA suffix is not a mystic tantra for solving all life's ills. Professional services are required by everybody, both the straight ones and the others. And if a CA decides to be the adviser of a thug or a bandit, an evader or a politician, for a hefty fee as it usually happens, can he come back to his brethren and show bleeding cuts and black-eyes? Such affected parties have to remember the old saying that the thief bitten by a scorpion just keeps quiet. Gentlemen ethics hold good when fair play prevails. And for those who decide to tread dark alleys and swim in murky waters, there is a different type of company. Those who join the CA ranks are not the followers of a queer cult that might imagine itself to be immune to any danger. So, the next time you hear a speaker at the podium talk of how he had to fly from Delhi to meet the police commissioner and ask for the release of a member, please do not rest assured that your lives are in the safe hands of men of sensibilities. Rather, there is a greater risk that your membership money is being frittered away in pursuing irrelevant things. Hail them not, but...
D. Murali
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