If I Were An Auditor - An Accounting Love Story

The First Accounting Musc Video produced in Second Life. The song (a parody of "If I Were a Carpenter") tells the story of two auditors (would-be auditors) in love, who view their relationship through the lens of accounting and auditing. They look for 'evidence' of each other's love, worry about 'second guessing,' and wonder if they'll get 'sale treatment' (get married), or only be "borrowed."

An eclectic ensemble cast, "The MACPA Players & Blogger Friends," was then formed, featuring A-list bloggers and MACPA staff. (Additional bloggers had scheduling conflicts precluding them from participating in the production, but provided moral support to their colleagues in their 'acting' debut.) Although I had met half the bloggers before in various venues (Tom Hood, Bill Sheridan, Colleen Cunningham, Gail Perry, Tom Selling, Mark Jankowski), it was the first time I 'met' the other bloggers (abeit virtually, in Second Life) who I only knew from their blogs, twitter, etc., including Michelle Golden, Dave Albrecht, and Darla Sycamore.

The brainstorm of Edith Orenstein (Financial Executives International) who wrote the lyrics and then engaged The Singing CPA, Steven Zelin to produce the music. She then enlisted Tom Hood (Maryland Association of CPAs) to build the sets and produce te video using their CPA Island in the virtual world of Second Life.

The 'music video' we did may seem like a lark to some, but we 'gotcha to look,' right? Moreover, there is real value in more 'serious' use of Second Life for training and networking purposes, and good examples of this are programs held in MACPA's CPA Island, and Second Life Roundtables produced by the FASB Research Initiative, coordinated by Cornell University's Rob Bloomfield. A major plus for those not ready for Second Life, who have interest in the speakers featured on some of these Second Life programs, is that simultaneous webcasting and archived webcasts are often available, so you can tune in via webcast if you're not ready to participate via Second Life.

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Entertainment

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• second life
• SL
• CPA Island
• CPA
• accounting
• accountant
• music video
• FEI
• MACPA
• Edith Orenstein
• Tom Hood
• auditor
• training
• learning
• virtual world
• social media
• socal netwrking