There are two sets of people in the accounting world. Those that know what is going on, and those that don't. A few years ago I had the good fortune to be tutored in the use of MYOB for my business accounting system. Everything went really well for the first year, and I managed to keep up to date with the inputting of invoices and payments. BAS time was relatively painless.
My only problem was the bookkeeper doing the final tallies on my accounts. He was lovely, but also had no idea about sorting out taxes to my benefit.
My current accountant is amazing and has turned a nasty tax pileup into a neat little payable mound. The problem I do have though is there seems to be a difference in how I do my books and how she would like them, and a lack of ability on both our parts to understand what this gap is and make it work for us.
This morning I've spend the best part of two hours confusing myself further whilst trying to understand what she is missing, and then also helping her sort out what has been input wrong. Oh boy, do I hate trying to untangle nasty bookworking knots!
The solution is relatively simple. It's about time I wound up the design business side of things and get into a different type of work. Life is too short to lose hours sorting out accountancy messes. With so many fingers in the accounting pie it's just too hard to keep track.
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