“Take a break from the busy life” --- Accountants and/or auditors, in another words financial peers, are advised to take a break from the busy life, provide oneself with leisure activities that could calm your mind, such as reading, socializing, traveling, and entertainment such as movies and TV films. Financial peers could recharge themselves by watching the movies stated below:
1) Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
The film revolves a classic masterpiece of the Wall Street theme, which described by the Wall Street financial circles regarding chaos and unexpected outturns, that lead to human greed. Human greed could be fatal and kill one’s career if it is not well under control.
Money is circulating in the workplace and having people to deal with every day, which cause people wanting for more than what they have. Greed kills!
2) Too Big to Fail
Adapted from the best-selling book by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Too Big to Fail offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world’s economy in a matter of a few weeks. The film goes behind closed doors to examine the symbiotic relationship between Wall Street and Washington.
3) Rogue Trader
The film tells the true story of a man named Nick Leeson, a man who single handedly broke Barings Bank (B.B), one of the most venerable financial institutions in England. He works in Indonesia for B.B, but eventually works his way up and becomes a trader on the floor of SIMEX, the stock exchange in Singapore.
A fast paced and well-directed movie. It delves deep into the emotional aspects of trading. It will show you the danger of letting fear and greed cloud your judgement as well as the price you pay for fighting the trend, and not cutting losses.
4)
The Shawshank Redemption
The film is about time, patience and loyalty, how two men
serving life sentences in prison become friends and find a way to fight off
despair. Life and friendship builds up between them. Mostly, the film is an
allegory about holding onto a sense of personal worth, despite everything.
5) Pirates of Silicon Valley
This is the story of the growth of the personal computer industry. Between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates (Apple – Microsoft). It shows you how the megacorps we know as Microsoft and Apple started. Apart from that, the movie shows both sides eventually doing whatever it needs to get ahead. They aim to get people to want what they do not really need necessarily, which you might not even have yet but you want them to want it, creating demand and getting the money to get it made.
6) Coca-Cola Kid
For some ambitious financial people, although they may be involved in only a small department in the company but has a huge achievement to achieve in the future, for instance, starting their own business. Having that said, this film Coca-Cola Kid, suits you. It focuses on a boy uses Coke to create a career path and the film highlights the importance of marketing in the business that would benefits the people from different walk of life, mainly in the field of finance and business management for future purposes and/or businesses.
7) Disclosure
The film is based on the best-selling novel by Michael Crichton. Sanders, finds himself reporting to Meredith. A long time ago they were once lovers. Now, she has beat him out over a major business position in their computer firm. One night she calls him in for a business meeting. She attempts to seduce him, but he would not want to be involved, he is a happy family man. Furious at being spurned, she files sexual harassment charges against him. The rest of the movie is Sanders’ quest of revealing the truth behind what happened and her motivation for it.
