The Times of Legends and Accountancy

So let us take arms against this sea of invoices and take all these memos of the seven kingdoms into our stationery cupboard of destiny. I have seen how the Management Accountants are massing on the borders of, this, our fair land, on their mighty auditing steeds ready to sweep down across the plains and murder, rape, pillage and fully-audit all the villages and hamlets that lie open and defenceless against them.

Once, under the last kings, this was a mighty land with some of the most tightly-audited villages and hamlets with a taxation structure that meant all the castles of the land had accountancy departments that were feared in all the surrounding kingdoms.

There were times when the invoicing procedures of this kingdom struck fear into the kings of the surrounding lands, who knew they did not have the cash reserves that could withstand a siege by some of this land's most feared Knights of the Audit, some of whom had been training on their calculators and before they could even walk, let alone reconcile a cash book.

Then though came the dark days, the dark years, when the land was captured and taken over by the Dark Wizards of Financial Services who cast their dread spells upon the land and laid waste to all the taxation regulations that the kingdom had built up over the centuries, until even the very petty cash boxes were ripped asunder and left empty and desolate on the deserts of what had been a once proud Balance of Trade.

[And then came the Dark Knights of the VAT and the evil mages and wizards of the Inland Revenue to bring the dark times upon these once-fair lands and our world would never be the same again.