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Bean Counting
In my former life (the one I lived before I gave up a respectable and well paid career to become an unsuccessful entrepreneur) I worked as an auditor. I could instil the fear of God into company directors and ledger clerks alike; armed with a calculator and a spreadsheet I could eradicate errors and change the course of company profits forever…Moohaahaahaaaa!
At the time I never understood how people could be so useless at keeping accounting records. It’s just numbers people! Do it right and do it on time – how hard can it be?
I have since been enlightened.
The reason they weren’t so interested in correctly recording their profit is that they were more concerned with actually making profit.
I have learnt this lesson the hard way. (Is there any other way?) Somehow I have made it to the end of the tax year with no orderly accounting records in sight. Far from it.
The dishevelled pile of papers that balances precariously on my desk now has to be fashioned into some sort of Inland Revenue friendly format.
Woe is me.
4 Comments:
I am right there with you. I also had a very nasty moment when I thought I'd miscalculated our PAYE, and that therefore, the tax-deparment-hit-squad were going to be coming round to kneecap me ... but then I discovered I'd subtracted instead of added and it all came out okay ...
I know exactly what you mean - currently going through my very messy personal financial records.
I am an accountant. I work as an auditor
Ah ha ha it's so good to hear other people do this too! I had a couple of years of faultless (every week without fail - every week!!!!) book-keeping, then April 5th 2004 I just didn't do it any more. Too tedious. And now...
How satisfying to hear that I'm not the only one!
I believe the term is Schadenfreude.
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