just an interesting tidbit. US news and world report did a survey in 2007 using Harris Interactive to determine the public's view of most and least prestigious jobs (defined as basically respect). While lawyer dropped out of the top 10, accountant is the number for LEAST prestigious job.
The fact that a teacher is near the top of the link your provided just voids it entirely. More than 50% of major companies across the world are run by CEO's with accounting or finance backgrounds. You can bet your ass that CFO's are generally people with accounting and finance backgrounds. Anyone with half a brain can tell you that accountants run the corporate world and the corporate world runs society.