Summary Of Bearisms By Jack Butler

James Loebbecke, the author, forms a fictional case that traces the professional life of Jack Butler’s career from his education all the way to his promotion to partner. Jack is a graduate from Farwestern University who built a relationship with Wally who helped guide him as he prepared for a career. Jacks first interest for his career was to become a lawyer like his father. Wally gives Jack great advice throughout his time at FSU as he was indecieve of what he wanted to do. As he began to like accounting and saw a future with it, Wally explained the differences between the MBA and MPrA and the different types of accounting careers. Jack chose to purse a MBA. While attending graduate school he participated in meet the firm night where he meets several potential
As Jack begins his early days with The Firm he learns the ins and outs of public accounting and the life of being an auditor. Throughout the book there are a series of “Bearisms” which is advice from Ouentin Barnes to help guide Jack and the new employees to learn auditing procedures. Jacks first auditing job he is assigned to is a cement company, Rineholt. Jack is faced with his first ethical dilemma when he discovers the petty cash custodian, a single mother, has been borrowing money to help pay her bills. At first Jack feel sympathy for the mother but knows he must do the right thing and report it to the company. Loebbecke puts Jack in certain situations to show examples of the difficult situations that an auditor may encounter. An example of a difficult situation for Jack is when he has to work on the Ardmore Audit underneath Stan Wright. Stan was demanding a lot of unreasonable hours from Jack and his teammates, causing Barney, a coworker, to have nervous breakdown from exhaustion. Jack took it upon himself to address the situation and only allowed Barney to work forty hours per week despite what Stan had