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[raven]

Sign #87928374 that you have spent too long doing business accounts: you can't find your rubber and the WORLD HAS ENDED.

omg, where is it.

Also what the fuck is a closing adjustment really. Who cares. (Seriously. Double-entry. Who gets off on that.) I hate everything.

(Okay, here is something I do not hate: the worked examples always feature the accounts of the Fry & Laurie Theatrical Supplies And Whatnot Shop. I have very little trouble and indeed substantial joy in picturing this. But nevertheless, where is my RUBBER.)

edited to add: okay maybe I don't hate this either.

Comments

[greek-jester.livejournal.com]

Actually, I quite like double entry. When used properly, it makes a lot of sense. But then again, I'm an accounts clerk, & I'm biased - if my f%$&ing clients would just -

1) use common sense i.e. imagine the line between the debit/credit is an equals sign, the debit entries have to equal the credit entries,
2) go on the local council's small business training initiatives, which include basic bookkeeping & business knowledge classes or,
3) hire a bookkeeper who actually knows their arse from their elbow,

- I'd have a lot less trouble.

Regarding closing adjustments? You'd have to specify what type of adjustments e.g. accruals, prepayments, various control accounts, stock, etc.

*pats hand* That's why pencils with rubbers on the end are a good idea. It means if you lose your main rubber you always have a backup. Goodness knows they're bugger all use for anything other than a minor smudge.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I have all those types of closing adjustments, and possibly more. I don't know, I am a lawyer.^[1] Why, why do I need to know this? And give that I do why am I so spectacularly bad at it?

[1] brackets "baby".

[soupytwist.livejournal.com]

Good luck, I hope your rubber comes out of hiding!

Fry & Laurie Theatrical Supplies And Whatnot Shop is so very happymaking a thought! Hee!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And, omg, it is so great. Whenever they borrow money it's from Meera Syal. It makes me happy.

[marymac.livejournal.com]

You could put it on a string like gloves?

If I could put a hole in my library card I'd do that, I've been looking for it all day and it turned up on the kitchen table, Which was absolutely not where I left it. *sigh*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I found it, and then I lost my post-its, which still haven't turned up. Whyyyy.

[marymac.livejournal.com]

This may be a sign of Too Much Stuff in desk area. Or the Malevolence Of Inanimate Objects. Or both, in some hideous alliance to put your head astray.

[amchau.livejournal.com]

I suspect a Non-Stationary Stationery Gnome. Perhaps if you built him a little house of pencils and index cards in the opposite corner of the room, it would entice him away from your desk?

[tau_sigma]

Your tag is so wonderfully appropriate; at least, it's exactly how I feel on that kind of day.

*hugs* I hope the rubber returns soon. I have about 500 million for some reason - and I rarely even use a rubber! - so if you would like me to post you one (or several), let me know. :)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I reserve it for exactly those kinds of days!

The rubber has now turned up, but as I have only the one, and I'm sure it will vanish again soon, I may, shamefully, have to take you up on that. *g*

[icepixie]

I doubt you intended this, but due to the combination of Britglish and Ameriglish translation glitches and this part: "Seriously. Double-entry. Who gets off on that," you have made me giggle like a maniac for like five minutes.

(I know you're talking about an eraser. But I cannot help myself.)

Good luck with the math awfulness. Just balancing my checkbook makes me want to hide; double-entry bookkeeping sounds like something out of Beelzebub's Big Book of Beastly Brainteasers.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Heeee! Okay, that is kind of... special. But I'm glad it made you laugh. :P

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

I think this is a little late, but this is a community wherein the internet finds stuff you have lost: myfsckingkeys. IT WORKS.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's brilliant.