Love for books and accounts a balancing act for Jane Gleeson-White

By Mark Dapin
Updated December 4 2014 - 10:08am, first published November 29 2014 - 12:00am
"I started to realise that there was something so enormous going on with accounting, that I had to write two, not one, accounting books": Author Jane Gleeson-White. Photo: Peter Rae
"I started to realise that there was something so enormous going on with accounting, that I had to write two, not one, accounting books": Author Jane Gleeson-White. Photo: Peter Rae
"I started to realise that there was something so enormous going on with accounting, that I had to write two, not one, accounting books": Author Jane Gleeson-White. Photo: Peter Rae
"I started to realise that there was something so enormous going on with accounting, that I had to write two, not one, accounting books": Author Jane Gleeson-White. Photo: Peter Rae
"I started to realise that there was something so enormous going on with accounting, that I had to write two, not one, accounting books": Author Jane Gleeson-White. Photo: Peter Rae
"I started to realise that there was something so enormous going on with accounting, that I had to write two, not one, accounting books": Author Jane Gleeson-White. Photo: Peter Rae
"I started to realise that there was something so enormous going on with accounting, that I had to write two, not one, accounting books": Author Jane Gleeson-White. Photo: Peter Rae
"I started to realise that there was something so enormous going on with accounting, that I had to write two, not one, accounting books": Author Jane Gleeson-White. Photo: Peter Rae

Will oranges grow ears? Might surfboards play the piano? Can accountants save the planet? These are questions nobody has thought to ask – until Jane Gleeson-White, author of a highly regarded history of accountancy, tackled the latter query in her most recent book, Six Capitals.