Can we look at creative accounting in the same respectable light as creative writing, creative cookery, creative football, creative sheet metalwork or any other area where creativity brings new value? Traditional creative accountancy was the stuff of Enron and Worldcom where imaginative concepts were used to invent new financial mechanisms that behaved like the perpetual motion engines.
It seems that I’m a dreamer (my MBTI is INTP) so I shouldn’t be let loose on running an accounts department but I think I could still appreciate the art of a good and creative accountant in the same way that we can appreciate the difference between the creative footballing talents of George Best and those of a Sunday league player in the local park who plays and enjoys a useful game but doesn’t reach the same heights.
