Caroline Dyson, Accountant at Martin & Co

A big thankyou for everything to Caroline Dyson at Martin & Co, getting me out of debt, somehow she did it. I came to an immense realization as I sat in the sun outside contemplating. Being an accountant is hard, and one receives little praise, as the natural tendancy is to think one is asking for money, this of course is not the case, she does a great job, and has balanced the accounts well. For it is a job involving cold figures, and demands, for payment. The client has a tendancy to think an accountant, like a mechanic, or a scientist, is not human or friendly as it were; how wrong this is; for the role typifies that character because of the job's very subject. As I began to think things over, I realised many things. For example: how come, despite inflation, my rent amount never rose? How come the landlord didn't take the bond? This does not happen without an accountant who is helping the tenant. One may say " No, the landlord decided." This is the art and skill of an accountant. A discrete, and careful mastery of figures and omissions, debts, and additions. I began to see the work Caroline has done over my ten year tenancy. As I came to the end of my tenancy, I fell into the greatest arrears imaginable, with no way out. As spring began, Caroline and I began to concoct a payment plan. That payment plan first was a brilliant move, which slowed down the landlord into some kind of thinking that spread the debt out. But then how the landlord cleared the debt, surely must have been Caroline's persuasion. Anyway, thanks again, I'll never know how I am out of the terrible debt I was in. Caroline phoned me, and I was talking to her about filling in forms relating to my new landlord's relationship with Martin & Co, and we went into the topic of shareholders and equity, a subject about which I know very little. Caroline made a decisive move that only someone with a degree in law and finances would understand; for in a moment from my mentioning of the meaning of 'financial interest', which I had thought I should indicate, she stopped me in the conversation, and spotted straight away with her instant analysis, that, without knowing this, I would have dug myself into a deep hole; for in no way did it apply to my new landlord's setting. Chris Fleetwood