Surreal day on the job...more of the same on the way.

[Yonadav]

 
You actually think that it's OK that Nomad would copy a client's financial records and hand them over to the authorities? And simply on the basis of Nomad imagining that the client must be up to something?  Even Nomad knows that's a dirtbag thing to do. That's why they said to mail it anonymously. I am fairly certain that if caught, Nomad would go to jail. Copies of a client's financial information is the property of the client. It would be straight up theft of the client's financial information.

I wouldn't trust Nomad with anything.

I wouldn't necessarily think it's okay to just send someone's financial records to the authorities for no reason but I would find it my responsibility if I, in the process of keeping their books, came upon something that was clearly illegal like finding out they were hiding money or something like that. At that point, it would be covering my own ass.

Nomad said to copy the financials. Nomad didn't say anything about having found anything illegal. Nomad is an idiot who thinks he can steal the property of his clients and turn it over to authorities just because he thinks they might be up to something.

If you are a book keeper who finds something clearly illegal, that probably still doesn't give you the right to steal the information. You can go talk to police and tell them what you saw.

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I wouldn't necessarily think it's okay to just send someone's financial records to the authorities for no reason but I would find it my responsibility if I, in the process of keeping their books, came upon something that was clearly illegal like finding out they were hiding money or something like that. At that point, it would be covering my own ass.

There's something illegal going on there.  Unless accounting rules are different across the pond, the duty is on an accountant to report illegal activities.

Sure, you can report what you know. You probably can't steal the clients financial information though. And you certainly can't steal their information just because 'you think something is going on there'. You can't be trusted, dude. You get crackpot ideas that make you think that you can cross red lines.