Bean Counters

A timely exposé... A comprehensive yet wildly readable indictment of the "Big Four" accountancy firms. * Sunday Times *
An improbably rollicking history of the accountancy profession... Such a good book... Any MP interested in making the City trustworthy again should take this book on their holidays. * Prospect *
Explosive... a devastating exposé * Mail on Sunday *
Gripping. This is a must-read for anyone who seeks to expose corruption and bad behaviour. * Margaret Hodge MP – former Chair of the Public Accounts Committee *
With forensic detail, Richard Brooks has exposed the march of the accountants from humble bean counters to a small cartel dominating modern capitalism. * John McDonnell MP – Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer *
Impeccably researched and written, this is a ground-breaking exposé of a profession that has lost the plot. Everyone in business and finance should read this. * Ian Fraser – Bestselling author of Shredded: Inside RBS, the Bank That Broke Britain *
Truly devastating. How many more workers and pensioners will have their lives and expectations smashed, before politicians pluck up the courage to require those occupying the heights of British capitalism to get their accounting and auditing houses in order? * Frank Field MP – Chairman of the Work and Pensions Select Committee *
Richard Brooks is a digger and a troublemaker who niggles away at difficult subjects in a meticulous, punchy and highly effective way * Alan Rusbridger – Former Editor, The Guardian *
Brooks says things that have needed saying for many years. * John Kay – Financial Times columnist and Visiting Professor of Economics, London School of Economics *