A Wee Rant

Are best practices in accounting a matter of "personal preference?"
How about nursing, or social work?

How about graphic design?

I'm starting to weary of teaching clients, for example, that squeezing a column of text into a too-narrow space with no gutters and too many hyphens and too small a point size isn't a matter of personal taste — there are rules here, and following them gives you one result, and not following them gives you another. Which do you want?