Accounting; Bookkeeping

The Rebbe told me a lesson from bookkeeping, "You should be aware of the importance of bookkeeping in Jewish thought..."

"I note from your stationery that you are a chartered accountant, I want to call your attention to the well known teaching of our Sages, based on the principle of 'Know Him in all your ways...'"

There is a special, basic instruction that one can derive from accountancy: that a discrepancy of even a penny indicates a basic error in the bookkeeping as significant as if it were a substantial amount. This is not the case in ordinary business transact...