There's always 2 or more sides to everything in life, so there is no middle ground.

Same thing in accounting - it's a system of checks and balances, but it goes beyond that conceptually. The thing with what we do is that as accountants, we have to be conscious of what's happening that you don't see.

We have to be aware and informed about all the risks and issues that you might not know about but can affect your business. And we have to be able to communicate that effectively so that you can make informed decisions.

Accounting forces you to think, what else does this affect? What does this mean for the future? What does this mean for the business? And how do I make sure that the people who are responsible for making decisions understand how their decisions impact the bottom line?

A lot of people think accounting means crunching numbers and doing calculations, but there's so much more involved than that. It is critical thinking; its problem solving; its decision making.