To All Accountants & Bookkeepers

[Qball]

You are heroes one and all in my book.

I've been doing an extensive, well... extensive for me at least, internal audit of my company's operating expenditures for the 2012 - 2016 years. Just finished it up today.

If I would have been hanging drywall, painting houses inside and out, both of which I hate doing, or even pumping septic tanks, I would have enjoyed what I was doing more than this.

So my hat's off to all accountants and bookkeepers who play with numbers all day, everyday. It takes a special breed to look at numbers and run an adding machine with the tape drive annoying the ever livin crap out of you all day long.

It's not for me, that's for sure.

 

[ES44AC]

My wife has done this for more than 27 years for some large industries. It makes my head hurt and my ears bleed. I don't see how she has done it this long.

 

[Bailey Boat]

As a management consultant I have been asked to do some forensic accounting a few times. I never refuse a clients request (that isn't against the law) so I smile and say, "I'll get right on that". What I really mean is that I'll find someone highly qualified and have them get right on that.... So like you , I have great respect and admiration for accountants.....

 

[trcubed]

The engineering program where I went to college was the feeder system for the accounting department. Everyone that flunked out of engineering went straight into acounting.

 

[Tim]

welcome to my world....only I get to double dip in geek pool by writing software code for accountants.

This is why I shoot things.

 

[BigWaylon]

The engineering program where I went to college was the feeder system for the accounting department. Everyone that flunked out of engineering went straight into acounting.

You need to change your perspective. It's call "pre-accounting", not "engineering".

 

[Jaysq]

When I started in accounting, it was still done by hand. I worked for one of the largest mechanical contractors in Florida and maintained cost accounting for each project, all by hand. We did mostly industrial work such as schools, hospitals and high rises. Workers would hand code their time cards so I knew what operation and what floor they were working on. I kept the cost by the same categories as our estimates, so we would see how each phase of the project was going. Those were the days.