Woes at Work...

Up till now we had been dealing with overdue invoices a certain way. While it does work for the most part it is not entirely accurate. The system doesn't give a good way of autimatically deciding between what is truly overdue, where there have been agreements made, where we are wating to get the money from COD Company and where money might have been sent but might not have been credited to our bank account.
So todays task was to fix those issues, since a number of customers had comlained about that during the convention in February. Well the system does give me certain options but they're not exacactly what you could call automated. I had changed the ID's over so that only the truly overdue incoices would show up. At least that was the idea. When I printed out the report I was missing about 1000 entries...and that told me that there had to be something terribly wrong. So I did a couple of test runs more and turns out, that each and every position needes to be manually put into a certain category. The rest that is not being categorized comes into the category "no category". The would be fine if that category physically would exist and if I could create an report using that category. But that is something the system doesn't allow me to do.
So after I had finised dealing with the overdue invoices in the old fanshioned manner I went ahead and started with the task of categorizing each and every position for all of our customers. And that is quite some undertaking. By the end of the day I had actually made very good progress. Finished categorizing about 2/3 of the data of the German Sub-Firm. One more day like today and all should be ready to go for the report of overdue invoices at the beginning of April. I'm still not entirely certain how much time went into planning and thinking all those changes trough.
Being a Main-Accountant is fun at least for most times. And you have to spend a considerable amount of time trying to figure stuff out and thinking things through how you can make your work more accurate and more efficient. That's the fun part of working in a family-sized business you have a lot of room to move around and you get to make many decisions on your own. I have to admit that might not be everybodys cup of tea, but I do really enjoy it.