{"id":60,"date":"2015-07-08T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beancounters.ie\/?p=60"},"modified":"2019-06-11T13:16:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T13:16:09","slug":"how-we-got-our-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beancounters.ie\/blog\/how-we-got-our-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Seriously fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #252525;\">We take our work very seriously, but not ourselves! &#8220;Beancounter&#8221; is actually a derogatory slang term for an accountant or bookkeeper. \u00a0In naming our business, we thought it would be funny to embrace this slang and use it in our branding. We also like the colourful imagery associated with beans and jellybeans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525;\">Wiki define the term as follows;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525;\"><strong class=\"Latn headword\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\"><a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" title=\"bean\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/bean#English\">bean<\/a>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" title=\"counter\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/counter#English\">counter<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(<i>plural<\/i>\u00a0<span class=\"form-of lang-en plural-form-of\"><b class=\"Latn\" lang=\"en\"><a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" title=\"bean counters\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/bean_counters#English\">bean counters<\/a><\/b><\/span>)<\/p>\n<ol style=\"color: #252525;\">\n<li><span class=\"ib-brac\">(<\/span><span class=\"ib-content\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" title=\"Appendix:Glossary\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Appendix:Glossary#idiomatic\">idiomatic<\/a><span class=\"ib-comma\">,<\/span>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" title=\"business\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/business\">business<\/a><span class=\"ib-comma\">,<\/span>\u00a0mildly\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" title=\"derogatory\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/derogatory\">derogatory<\/a><\/span><span class=\"ib-brac\">)<\/span>\u00a0A person, such as an\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" title=\"accountant\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/accountant\">accountant<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" title=\"financial\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/financial\">financial<\/a>\u00a0officer, who is concerned with\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" title=\"quantification\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/quantification\">quantification<\/a>, especially to the exclusion of other matters.\u00a0<span class=\"HQToggle\">\u2003[<a style=\"color: #0b0080;\">quotations\u00a0\u25bc<\/a>]<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So please call us Beancounters as much as you like, we will not be insulted. 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