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Accountants have a need to follow the rules. It creates order, and life is just simpler when everything goes the way it should.<\/p>\nAccountants have a need to follow the rules. It creates order, and life is just simpler when everything goes the way it should.<\/p>\n
While work never goes the way it should, accountants can at least rely on the established pen color hierarchy. The pen color hierarchy varies company to company, even office to office.<\/p>\n
When followed at the office, it is important that this color code is never, ever broken. Having the pen color rule broken is akin to ghost ticking (tickmarking<\/a> without having done the work).<\/p>\n Accountants will adopt a number of pen colors such as red, green, blue, black, etc. to represent different levels of seniority. At a company, an accountant could start out with a green pen. They would never be allowed by their peers to use any pen whose ink is not green until they get promoted in title. By following this rule consistently, it makes the seniority clear for who worked on a given task.<\/p>\n The pen color, not what is written, defines the accountant. Accountants (as sad as this sounds, it’s true) long for the day when they are allowed to use the next pen color.<\/p>\n