Accounting work is certainly one of the most difficult desk jobs because of the amount of details one has to deal with. In Japan accounting is a highly respected career mainly because the Japanese have made it globally acceptable. The Japan accounting procedures have gone through many changes to get to where it is now. That place is being acceptable under international accountancy standards and accepted worldwide.
However, even accountants in Japan need a break to relax and unwind. Movies are one of the more pleasant activities to consider when you want an accountant to unwind. Here are some of the movies made in the U.S. about money, but not in a direct way so as to remind accountants that there’s work yet to be done. After all, an accountant’s job is never ending as long the something is being bought or sold in the company.
A great new classic is the movie, Christmas with the Kranks starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis. Tim Allen plays an accountant whose sole purpose in the 2004 film is to save money. The film was based on the popular John Grisham book, Skipping Christmas. It’s a delightful family film that ends with the expected holiday cheer.
Accountants will love the fact that Allen’s character equates the holidays with a detailed spreadsheet of all their expenses and decides a better way to spend the funds. Forbes.com had a field day with this film and even put down their personal breakdown last 2005 and said that skipping the holidays and gift giving would mean a savings of about $750.68!
Another amazing movie is Indecent Proposal which is something you can watch more than once. The film headlines Demi Moore, Robert Redford, and Woody Harrelson, and poses the morality of being paid for sex. Accountants are often faced with moral issues about legitimate expenses that can be charged to a business, and paying the right taxes without using a little calculator magic.
Trading Places and Jerry McGuire are also contemporary films about how money can corrupt with good triumphing over evil. But the all-time epic movie about money must be the 1946 film, It’s a Wonderful Life starring Cary Grant. In this movie, he plays George Bailey who defaults on his loan and is facing his savings and loan clients who are in danger of losing everything also. A wonderful miracle happens and he discovers life is worth living and friendship is worth a lot more than just mere pleasantries.
Let your accountant watch any of these movies and you’ll see how relaxed he or she will be after “The End.”
