This is a beautiful story, exposing some hard truths about accountancy, thanks for posting. I've known a few accountants, The ones who do "best" are the ones with no morals, and at the opposite end of that spectrum, folk with morals can actually go insane, like my own beloved Mother did, when she embarked on a lifelong ambition to become a tax consultant, just before I was born, one or the other or both of those things resulted in her being certified, as long as I can remember.
That, and some other experiences at the hands of some other accountants involved in my life, was probably instrumental in me as an Engineer, to look harder than average at the whole business of accounting, the effect of it on all things physical, to come to the conclusion there are better ways of doing things, ways more in keeping with nature than the handling and coveting of capital. In the end, accountancy is just the art of gatekeeping scarcity enforcement, which is the opposite of how nature or a well designed engine works.
We shouldn't be surprised humanity is breaking down because in the end we choked ourselves of energy, by the way we handle money, and if we wish any revival or survival as a species, we are going to have to start conforming with, and emulating nature.