And finally…the all-time top 5 movie accountants are…

This summer ‘Central Intelligence’ will grace cinemas with a tough-talking CIA agent (Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson) joined by mild-mannered accountant (Kevin Hart) as the pair team-up to crack a ‘top-secret case’ after a high school reunion brings them together.

The June release action comedy follows the duo as they face shootouts, double-crosses and espionage in an escalating ride of lethal encounters and laughs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrgXU1zHfFI

Then, later in the in the year, Ben Affleck will star alongside Anna Kendrick as Christian Wolff, a maths genius and forensic accountant who specialises in creative bookkeeping for gangsters. After taking on a legitimate client in an effort to avoid arrest, Wolff uncovers discrepancies that add up to millions. ‘The Accountant’ will be released by Warner Bros on 14 October.

The world of finance will also be the focus of this year’s new George Clooney offering which sees the heartthrob play a bombastic TV personality whose popular financial network show has made him the money wiz of Wall Street. But after he hawks a high tech stock that mysteriously crashes, an irate investor takes Gates, his crew, and his ace producer Patty Fenn (played by Julia Roberts) hostage live on air. Unfolding in real time, Gates and Fenn must find a way to keep themselves alive while simultaneously uncovering the truth behind a tangle of big money lies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_AFOJ01lmU

So, as the silver screen prepares for this year’s latest financial thrills, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland has taken a look back at the greatest contributors to the legacy of the ‘dull’ accountant on the silver screen.

According to the professional body, the movies’ top five bean counters of all time are:

1. Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

2. Itzhak Stern, Schindler’s List (1993)

3. Oscar Wallace, The Untouchables (1987)

4. Leo Bloom, The Producers (1968/2005)

5. Louis Tully, Ghostbusters (1984)