She replaced a part of the income she gave up after leaving her job as a chartered accountant in a finance company, without losing any of the time with her family.

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Oliver's father David Gill, 52, is an accountant who joined United as finance director in 1997 and took over as chief executive six years later following the departure of Peter Kenyon to Chelsea.

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For instance, earnings is an accountant's concept: a clever finance man, it is said, can make a company's earnings come out at whatever he likes.

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An accountant by training, he was senior vice president of finance and administration at the ad agency then known as Needham Harper Worldwide, which formed the basis of Omnicom in 1986.

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