The Theology of Financial Accounting

Dr. John Thornton, in addition to being the author of Jesus' Terrible Financial Advice, is a CPA, a professor of accounting, and the head (steward) of a charitable fund devoted to improving accounting ethics at Azusa Pacific University. One of his areas of research specialization is looking at why accounting firms get fired. He found that the chief reasons were corruption and incompetence. It was only after the data led him to that conclusion that he learned that his favorite accountant in the Bible, Daniel, was one of whom it was said that his critics "could find no ground of accusation or evidence of corruption, inasmuch as he was faithful, and no negligence or corruption was to be found in him." (Dan. 6:4 NAS)