The genuine oddness of "The Odd Trump" is scarcely belied by the book itself: an old copy on my shelf, in the drabbest of brown cloth bindings, bears a sly inscription by "The Author," the better to give its accountant-author a moment of peace, before what would prove to be a century of the far more effective anonymity of not being read.
Simon Gray is a chartered accountant and author of Super Secrets of the Successful Jobseeker, giving the inside track on finding a job in difficult times.
Last week, Ms. Blake, 46, an accountant and author of two books on personal finance, was appointed to the board of Avista, a gas and electric utility in Spokane, Wash., where she lives.
Sally Green - former accountant turned author Sally Green has just won the teen category of the Waterstones prize with her 2013 supernatural thriller, Half Bad, about witches living among us in modern-day Britain.
"The special strengths of family firms help tremendously in time of recession," says Peter Leach, a partner at BDO Stoy Hayward, a firm of accountants, and author of "Guide to the Family Business" (Kogan Page, 1999).
Even if the business is too short of cash to pay taxes, it is critical to file every tax document on time so that any penalties are only for paying late, not for filing late, said Martin S. Kaplan, a New York accountant and the author of "What the I.R.S. Doesn't Want You to Know: A C.P.A. Reveals the Tricks of the Trade".
She is a certified public accountant and an author.
Richard Murphy, accountant, tax campaigner and the author of The Joy of Tax, said: "The structure only appears to exist for tax purposes, to try to secure a tax advantage".
State senator Curt Bramble, the law's author, works as an accountant.
An accountant turned rock-club owner, the author of a book about his pornography addiction, Mr. Caton had become a born-again Christian and the founder and sole employee of a fundamentalist group called the Florida Family Association.
He is a miserable, friendless man who appears to differ from his author only in being an accountant at the Ministry of Culture and having a father who is murdered.
