Did Monty Python get it all wrong? The comedy group's famous sketch based on chartered accountants has long haunted the profession.
In it John Cleese as a careers counsellor tells Michael Palin's accountant that: "Our experts describe you as an appallingly dull fellow, unimaginative, timid, lacking in initiative, spineless, easily dominated, no sense of humour, tedious company and irrepressibly drab and awful. And whereas in most professions these would be considerable drawbacks, in chartered accountancy they are a positive boon."
