What does 1+1 equal?

I only ask because you don’t seem to need to know to be an accountant. Maybe the world of FD’s is one were you don’t appreciate what you have until to have lost it, from the scary DA to the deep detail of Statto it would appear I have been spoilt. I will never complain again when someone questions my number, at least that shows they understand it.

So what has this poor man done, well the last frustration is this:

So today involved making a further £250k in year saving and a Q3 margin boost of £300k. So after managing to find them both, I sent through the details to what is nothing more than a data monkey with a big job title, and what did he do, he entered the data, made some other changes and only did one level of reconciliation. This meant instead of a £300k boost we had £143k. That in its self would be fine exept he did not check against my email, and sent it out to the Group FD and Business Unit MD.

So I spotted the error, and asked him why, to which the reply was I have no idea. He changed it for Gods sake, how can he not know. So I end uo talking him through numbers when I am in the car and he is in front of his laptop (that memory verses eyes), and still no errors spotted.

So I get home, open the laptop, and walk him though line by line against the last version of the extract, and what a surprise we find the errors, and they are the wedge he inserted, against my instructions last night!

So we finally have a fixed report, but one in which we will need to say, ignore that number it is £167k wrong because the FD is a moron!

The rest of the day was one of those were email kept arriving quicker than you can answer it, and the work keeps backing up. I am really glad Dad is here this weekend as it will stop me working, because I have at least 60 hours catch-up before next Friday. Haho!

The good news is I am working at home, lots to do, but no travel.

Not sure what we wil do over the weekend, but having had my Q1 bonus today (which was a nice surprise) I might do some shopping!