Every accountant knows that TS treads where others daren’t follow ­ like cracks in pavements, or dodgy bars at kicking-out time. But some brave people were brought to TS’s attention back in October, when those nice folk at Coda and CIMA launched www.extreme-accounting.com ­ a site intended to highlight the crazy antics of some number crunchers.

Five months later and the world has finally taken notice. That venerable rag, The Sun, devoted a whole page to the subject on 21 April. Never one to miss an opportunity for shameless self-promotion, here’s our contribution to extreme accounting ­ Accountancy Age in the Himalayas. TS always said our stories were breathtaking.