Summer Reading List: Five Great Books for the Five Lives of a Busy Accountant

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Accountants fill many roles. And there’s a good book for each.

By Hitendra Patil

In “A Dance with Dragons,” “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin, says, “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one.”

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Well, accountants don’t live just one life. At work, it’s almost as if they live five different lives. Here is a summer reading list for accountants with one book for each of the lives they live.