Accounting, it's considered a dry pragmatic craft, not a science, not an art, just adding and subtracting columns of numbers to arrive at a tabulated result. The act itself is not particularly taxing, tedious; but do-able by almost anyone given the time and some peace and quiet. So, accounting is a simple trade, but in the end it has its own nobility. We use the results to gauge where we stand, to find how our efforts have shaped-up. The results, an account, provide the bones of our story, where we've come from, where we've gone. For Economics accounting provides the referees, the umpires who hold its players to the consequences of their actions so we can sort out the winners from the losers, the laudable from the cheats. Law and custom look to accounting to point out aberrations that require adjustments be made of the