ACCOUNTANT'S PLACE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22977, 3 March 1938, Page 12

ACCOUNTANT'S PLACE

INCREASING RECOGNITION ADDRESS TO THE SOCIETY |"by telegraph—OWN correspondent] DTJNEDIN, Wednesday " It is pleasing to notice that more and more recognition is being given to members of our society by whatever Government is in power," said the president of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, Mr. J. Mawson Steward of Christchurch, speaking at the society's annual meeting in Dunedin tonight. "It is seldom that a commission is appointed to-day without the inclusion of some member of our society," he said. "As a late instance of this we have the Mortgage Adjustment Commissions, set up all over the Dominion, with an accountant as one of the three members of each particular commission." Members had good cause to be pleased with the ever-increasing prestige of their profession among the general public. Some unobservant people still regarded accountants as mere "figuremongers" or cogs in the wheels of business, but that attitude lagged far behind the far-ranging constructive achievements of modern accountancy in industry and commerce. The growing complexity of modern business called for increasing assistance from qualified accountants, and their duties required them to make an intelligent study of tho statistical structure of industry and commerce, so that they could offer reliable advice for its management.