Well after 3 day of working in a disaster area, war zone, site of an bomb explosion...aka my desk at work I've made quite a huge dent into the disaster. With that being said, my desk still looks like a disaster area and that doesn't make me particular happy.
I named the worst pile of work, besides the inbox of my work email, the msic. pile or pile that someone didn't know what to do about the stuff or pile that they just didn't want to have to deal with. I'm not mad at that, after all those 2 guys who tried their work on that particular pile are non-accountants and of those 2 guys doesn't want to have much to do with accounting in the first place.
After having dealt with the the piles I named "most urgently" it was time to takle that particular pile today.
When I went trough that pile to get "the lay of the land" so to speak...I was just amazed. I've been working as an accountant for over 25 years, but in that time I've rarely ever encountered a pile like that. For me as an accountant it was a journey of the special kind. You might even say a fusion of Accounting meets Twilight Zone :)
I foundinvoices that had been paid, although they hadn't even reacht their due date yet, but they hadn't even been marked as having been paid. Inbetween bank statements I found invoices past their due date that hadn't been paid, but nobody did anything about that particular fact. As I dug deeper into the pile I found a couple of payment reminders that nobody had done anything about. Turns out that tha bank statements hadn't been recorded for about 3 weeks, and that's really something bad, especially considering that I should be doing the montly balance for April. Not entirely sure how that's going to work. And mixed within those files were accounting related papers and payment confirmations.
I sorted the whole, stuff according to it's urgency and maturity date an started working it off. My current estimate is that it will take me about 3 or 4 days to work through that entire pile. I'm not even talking about reconsiliation work or doing the montly balance work for the bank.
Those are the times I really would love to have all documents electronically. That way I could have connected from home to my work computer, sorted all those documents according to their urgency and rcorded those that would have been most urgently myself or at least told those guys what documents needed to processed and how to do that, espceially with the more difficult ones. So I'm going to file the under the genere "Fun, Fun Fun..." ;)
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