TY - GEN TI - Mahatma's tryst with learning and accountancy PY - 2012/// KW - ACCOUNTING N2 - Very few know that our father of nation was qiute wary of the discipline called accountancy and that he overcome this fear soon after he realised that. He was qiute like Albert Einstein who too, despite being a great scentific investigator, felt:The hardest thing in the world to understand in the income tax. Gandhi found the worlds like debit, credit, P. Note etc. all greek. While preparing for his client Dada Abdulla Seth's case, he got troubled as he could not follow even the basic terminologies of accountancy that were the repertoire of the case. He immediately concluded that knowledge of accountancy was essential even for his basic understanding of the case. He decided to learn accountancy from scrath ER -