Accrual World

Welcome to Accrual World, a place where accountants have been banned and are forced to go underground to help impoverished businesses survive the resulting chaos.

This is the premise of the new sci-fi novel commissioned by MYOB. Written for accountants by acclaimed author Andy Blackford, this year-long project is a wry look at an Orwellian world.

The story so far...

A vicious down-turn in the economic cycle brought wide-spread hardship and ruin to the small business community. The big banks were widely regarded as the villains of the piece – a notion exploited by the Albion Party and their opportunistic leader Jack Wright.

As the economic infrastructure of the country creaked, Jack Wright’s Albion Party fanned the flames of unrest, whipping up public antagonism against the banks and the accountancy profession, depicting them as co-conspirators and the enemies of small business.

With the government’s tax revenues dried up & public services collapsed, the Albion Party ‘came to the rescue’, forming local militia to provide make-shift contingencies. Wright’s plot culminates in a bloodless coup d’etat and the Albion Party assumes unlimited powers on the pretext of saving the country from anarchy and ruin. 

Amidst the economic meltdown and political madness Alan Gold, a North London accountant, becomes the leader of The Irreconciled - a small, underground cell that tries to preserve the principles of financial order and probity.

Download the novel

• Download Chapter One (PDF 103KB)
• Download Chapter Two (PDF 83KB)
• Download Chapter Three (PDF 83KB)
• Download Chapter Four (PDF 179KB)

Chapters are added every month, but in the meantime you can put forward your suggestions by joining the discussion at www.accrualworldforaccountants.com . This blog centres on extracts from the novel and also light-hearted commentary on the industry as a whole - we'd love to hear your views.