BRITISH ACCOUNTANCY

Evening Star, Issue 22086, 20 July 1935, Page 6

BRITISH ACCOUNTANCY

TRIBUTES FROM UNITED STATES Generous tribute to the high standards achieved and consistently maintained by the accountancy profession in Great Britain was paid by Mr I. Graham Pattinson, as representative of the American Institute of Accountants, at the golden jubilee banquet of the British Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors. He remarked that the accountants of America generally looked to Great Britain as the cradle of their profession, and, whilst they might have struck out on some lines of their own, nevertheless their roots went down into the society’s fertile soil, and from it they had drawn not only training, but inspiration to maintain the traditions and attempt to improve the standard established in Britain in order that business men the world over might have faith in a profession which could be of such service to them. No profession could be of genuine and universal service without a central orrrjjnlscd body to establish standards and maintain discipline, and in that body must be the men of public spirit who were willing to devote their time freely without financial reward—men who would command the respect not only of the business world, but also of their own professional brethren, particularly the younger element. Taking such a creed as a measure, he felt that the business world owed a debt of gratitude to the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors. They had wrought well in the cause, and as they contemplated what they had accomplished and considered their sons who were carrying the responsibility throughout the world —arid in this he spoke from experience—they had just cause for the pride which he knew they must feel, and which members of the profession throughout the world all shared with them.