Like many Americans, I have a strange relationship with my accountant. She knows more about my family than we’d like to admit, and we are at her mercy to decipher the ever-changing hieroglyphs known as the Tax Code.

Her first card is actually rather eye-catching — a $20 bill — to indicate that we get money to recommend her firm. Pretty straightforward, if you think about it. This brings up a point, though, about how US currency is actually a better bit of design than the card itself, but let’s not go there.

It does, after all, seem appropriate for a tip calculator chart to be included on the back of the card. Accountants are all about correct amounts. But let’s not bring up the abundance of tip-calculator applications on smart phones.

Sadly, her regular card is pretty sucky. Typical small business America, I suppose. Now I wonder if she’ll accept new business cards as payment for my tax return next year …

Tagged: clever, sucky
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