I challenge the best accountant in the colonies to detect a false footing, or a doubtful entry, in any book I have, from the Memorandum to the Leger.

On quitting this foundation he became a junior clerk in the South Sea House under his Elder Brother who died accountant there some years since....

"What a pretty girl your daughter Reine is!" said Mathieu, in the hope of drawing the accountant from his haunting remorse.

One beginner whom we know is seriously thinking of employing a chartered accountant for this purpose.

"What! is he being brought up here to me?" exclaimed Constance turning pale, and her involuntary cry would have sufficed to enlighten the accountant had he needed it.

In this particular case detailed above, if the heir's circumstances had been rigidly reduced to figuresif a professional accountant had examined themit would have been found that, although in possession of a large farm, he had not got one scrap of capital.

She found the accountant in his little office, seated in his wonted place, and leaning over the everlasting ledger which was open before him.

If he said 'I have invited twenty-five chartered accountants to tea,' everyone would see the humour of so simple a classification.

And Marianne watched over the farmyard, the dairy, the poultry, and showed herself a first-class accountant, keeping the books, and receiving and paying money.

He "thought an accountant the greatest character in the world, and himself the greatest accountant in it."

It was more particularly since she had suspected the latter of bad management, blunders and debts, that she endeavored to turn the accountant into a confidant, even a spy, who might aid her to secure as much control of the business as possible.