This goes without saying, but accountants are not allowed to trade on insider info.<\/em><\/p>\nAnother form of confidential records is an employee’s file. An accountant may perform procedures in the payroll process and go through the resume of someone they work with day to day and despise. This often leads to playing the game called, ‘How much does this person make?’ Accountants love reading this stuff and feeling privileged.<\/p>\n
“You said you were a manager at XYZ firm?”<\/p>\n
“Yeah, that was a while ago.”<\/p>\n
“Well your resume says you only worked there for 2 years.”<\/p>\n
“Wait, how do you -”<\/p>\n
“Oh, um, just kidding, since I would never read up on that stuff. It’s personal and needs to remain private.”<\/p>\n
“Right …”<\/p>\n
With all the things that suck with the job (think 99%), reading confidential records is one of the few occasions where an accountant can say with a straight face that they don’t hate their job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Though you’ll be hard pressed to find one who openly admits it, accountants love reading this stuff. Stock grants, board minutes, commission payouts, employee resumes, ADP wages, and so on. Accountants love reading confidential records when they think nobody is watching over them.<\/p>\n