greg adams: from finance to storytelling | the disruptors

accountants need to write their own stories.

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the disruptors
with liz farr

greg adams believes that accountants’ work opportunities have long been underappreciated and misunderstood. when accountants at parties are asked what they do, adams explained that they always have to give the “but answer,” as in, “i’m an accountant, but i have a really cool job.” 

adams himself has spent time in australia and barbados and “had lots of adventures” during his time at kpmg.   

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his new book, green shade$, is an attempt to dispel the notion of accounting as limited to just tax or audit and “to change the branding and image of accountants.” a fan of jack reacher-type thrillers, adams wrote an accounting book that comes with a warning: “it has a little bit of violence in there and some sexual tension and but even has accounting equations.” the protagonist, dex mccord, jumps off a cliff while dodging bullets, but in his quest to solve the murder of an old accounting friend, he is “aided by at least 10 different types of accountants,” experts in transfer pricing to sec filings.