Tuesday 6 April 2010

What we don't do.....

This little story made me chuckle and made me realise all the things that we at Mazuma pride ourselves on not doing!

Once upon a time there was a shepherd looking after his sheep on the edge of a deserted road.

Suddenly a brand new Jeep Cherokee screeches to a halt next to him. The driver, a young man dressed in a Brioni suit, Cerruti shoes, Ray-Ban glasses, and a YSL tie gets out and asks the shepherd: - “ If I guess how many sheep you do have, will you give me one of them? “

The shepherd looks at the young man, then looks at the sheep, which graze and says: -“All right”.

The young man parks the car, connects the notebook and the mobile, enters a NASA site, scans the ground using his GPS, opens a database and 60 excel tables filled with algorithms, then prints a 150-page report on his high-tech mini printer. He then turns to the shepherd and says: - “You have exactly 1586 sheep here.”

The shepherd answers: - That's correct, you can have your sheep. The young man takes the sheep and puts it in the back of his jeep.

The shepherd looks at him and asks: “If I guess your profession, will you return my sheep to me?”

The young man answers: “Yes, why not.”

The shepherd says: - You are an Accountant!

“How did you know?” asks the young man.

Very simple, answers the shepherd: “First you come here without being called. Second, you charge me, to tell me something I already knew. Third, you do not understand anything about what I do, because you took my dog!

If you don't want an accountancy service like that, then Mazuma's for you!