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“Publish and be damned”

Well in our case it was more like: “Publish and damn the economy”.

As each month we wrote another chapter of Accrual World it started to worry us just how much we were prophesising the world economy and events. Here’s hoping there’s an Alan Gold out there to find a resolution, as Accrual World is now available in all its printed glory.

There are 500 free copies available for accountants, just email accrualworld@wolterskluwer.co.uk with your name, company and contact details and we’ll drop it in the post.

Alternatively download the PDF here

New to Accrual World?

Welcome to a place where accountants have been banned and are forced to go underground to help impoverished businesses survive the resulting chaos.

This is the premise of the new sci-fi novel commissioned by CCH Software. Written for accountants by acclaimed author Andy Blackford, this year-long project is a wry look at an Orwellian world.

The story so far…

A vicious down-turn in the economic cycle brought wide-spread hardship and ruin to the small business community. The big banks were widely regarded as the villains of the piece – a notion exploited by the Britannic Party and their opportunistic leader Jack Wright.

As the economic infrastructure of the country creaked, Jack Wright’s Albion Party fanned the flames of unrest, whipping up public antagonism against the banks and the accountancy profession, depicting them as co-conspirators and the enemies of small business.

With the government’s tax revenues dried up & public services collapsed, the Britannic Party ‘came to the rescue’, forming local militia to provide make-shift contingencies. Wright’s plot culminates in a bloodless coup d’etat and the Britannic Party assumes unlimited powers on the pretext of saving the country from anarchy and ruin.

Amidst the economic meltdown and political madness Alan Gold, a North London accountant, becomes the leader of The Irreconciled - a small, underground cell that tries to preserve the principles of financial order and probity.