Apparently, it's true.
The best April Fools joke that was (attempted to be) perpetrated on or by accountants in the media realm appears to have been in Accountancy Age from the UK. Among the obvious clues that this was bogus was the line:
‘There is a really challenging scene where one auditor sharpens a pencil for almost eight minutes. It’s electric. Almost as good as Omar Sharif’s entry on a camel in Lawrence of Arabia.'
The premise is that Jason Statham (Transporter, Italian Job) plays an audit partner in a drug and drink fueled romp through the high stress world of attestation.
Nobody enjoys good satire more than me - but this was useless. If this is the best that accountants can do at mocking themsleves then it is a doomed profession!
I hope that somebody out there has better examples.
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