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Editor's letter - Battlefield lessons for the institutes.

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Not all accountants are the same. ICAEW chief executive Eric Anstee told us recently that English & Welsh chartered accountants arrive at a decision through a process involving judgement; the typical CIMA accountant will make a decision only after analysing a problem to death. As for CIPFA members, their chief exec Steve Freer tells us that the public sector accountants are particularly well versed in analysing options to be presented to politicians, who make the final decision.

One thing that all the accountants seem to have in common is an undying passion for their profession. That much was clear as we read the hundreds and hundreds of comments made by readers who kindly took the time to respond to our survey questionnaire. Some were virtually unprintable!

It is, as Robert Bruce points out on page 20, very much a case of the heart and the head. One might easily come to the conclusion that the heart tells members to be faithful to their institute and their training, while the head says that consolidation is inevitable in an age of ...

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