Today was the second day of taking inventory at work. Since that was going to take from 8 am to about 2 pm, I wasn't able to attend my tax class...and I wasn't particularly happy about that. But that's just part of life and you can't do anything about it. Taking inventory this year was particularly chaotic. It probably was one of the worst taking inventory session I've ever been part of. And I've now been working for 20+ years. Around 1 pm a friend with whom I'm taking my tax class called me to aks how thing were coming along. I told him that I would get back to him as soon as I'm done taking inventory. After all I had promised to tutor him, since he was going to take his payroll exam on April 2nd. I left work at 1.30 pm and headed home to grab a bite to eat and take Daisy for a walk. After a little relaxing I called him up and told him that I would head over to his place.
We started our "payroll session" about 4 pm and it was really tough at times. He was puzzeld with things that came completely easy to me. But I did explain everything in great detail. So that he get's the point why he has to do certain things a certain way. We get good along with each other and he thought that I can explan payroll very well. We had started with an fairly easy subject and than moved on to the really tought stuff. And we did spend considerable amount on the hard subjects, since those give you the big points and screwing them up can easily break your exam. And those subjects are really hard to understand. At 8 pm we grabbed a quick bite to eat and then continued with the tough stuff. But this time around he did much better than the first time. It definitely takes getting used to it. And it's a fact that if you understand the hardest excercise, the rest is much easier.
After we got done with that we did some examples on how to calculate business trips and business trips to foreign countries correctly. As it turns out I do know all that stuff quite well and having to explain it to someone else in detail also improves your own knowledge of the subject. Of course calculating business trips and related expenses is fairly easy compared to dealing with the tax side of vacation and XMAS bonus.
And our final subject was on how to calculte the termination of employment right. And there are quite a number of things to take into consideration. We were done at about 11 pm and spent some time watching YouTube before I headed back home. He has to make the call if he's ready to take the exam or not. But if I would have been puzzeled by those many subject I probably wouldn't have gone for the exam. But of course that's an individual descision. I did offer him that he can call me if he hits a snag while learing during the days leading up to his exam. All in all it was not a bad way to spend a Saturday and actually a quite fulfilling experience helping someone out. And it did show me that I do have a quite sufficient knowlege of the subject payroll.
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