Ode to Peter Marshall A scholar of business stood out in the yard Wondering why people found bookkeeping hard And on this subject he pondered long Then he concluded that teachers were teaching it wrong. So the learned man sat down to write A textbook that would teach it right. The book was launched at a grand event And each new edition went from strength to strength. By the ninth we were into the digital age And so he wrote a book on Sage. While such packages simplify a task so intensive They nevertheless are very expensive. So when austerity was strapping his learners to the bone He wrote a manual for them to build their own, And when he'd completed his all-encompassing triple He sat down and enjoyed his favorite tipple.