Accounting Isn’t Cool Anymore
Also Paramount, CLO insider trading and hacking the transfer agent.
Well I think accounting is cool. Accounting, like tax law or Ancient Greek, has this pleasing constellation of features:
Does that sound appealing to you? Probably most of you are saying “what, no,” and a substantial minority of you are like “yes, that does sound cool, that is pretty much what I do in my job as a [derivatives structurer][distressed credit investor][software engineer][fintech founder][financial fraudster], though I probably get paid more than the accountants,” and a few of you are like “I am an accountant and that doesn’t sound all that much like my day job,” and then one of you is going to email me to be like “I am an accountant at a Big Four national office and thank you for appreciating my art.”