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Scrooges? Nerds? Not these two. (Janet Marcus; Albert Sproul; Pyramid Accounting Partners) (People)
Scrooges? Nerds? Not these two!
Janet Marcus and Albert Sproul detest the accountant stereotype. Whether CPAs are percieved as Scrooges in green eyeshades, crunching numbers by candlelight, or, in Sproul's terms, "stick-in-the-mud nerds," the two Willoughby-based accountants like to think they're as far removed from such stereotypes as possible.
"I'm so tired of hearing, |You're an accountant? You don't look like an accountant,'" says 27-year-old Sproul, who has been known to wear a full-length black leather biker coat and carry an alligator skin briefcase to work. "I just think clients tend to be more distant when you have that nerdy approach. We want them …
