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camwynI swore back in September that I would never make fun of accountants as long as I lived, because the stuff my Red Cross chapter was doing to make absolutely sure that everyone who gave money got properly thanked for it - and that the money went where the donors wanted it to go - was absolutely mind-boggling. How people can keep so many records so accurately and not go insane is beyond me. I just had to input it all to our fundraising software and tie out with the accounting office every afternoon, making sure that stuff for the WTC went to National and stuff for the fire in our home chapter went to local disaster funding and stuff for the fundraiser gala was credited to that, etc...
But I am about ready to SLAUGHTER our new chief accountant. Sir, exactly what part of 'Gift Type: Pay-Cash', as opposed to 'Gift Type: Cash' or 'Gift Type: Pledge' did you not understand? You're the chief accountant! You're supposed to know that when it says 'pay-cash' - which only ever shows up on pledge payments in the forms that I give you - it means 'do not count this towards the total amount given by this donor, because they already received credit for the pledge'. You're also supposed to know that yes, it looks like the donor retroactively decided to make that money into a pledge payment after the fact, because that is what we discussed the last three times you came into my office with that donor's documentation in your hand, and what I discussed the last eight times our CFO came in. You know? The CFO? The one who actually knows the system? The one who made sure a month ago that my accounts reconciled with yours and matched properly and came out accurately, whom you really should've asked about this donor's account in the first place?
You've been in my mini office three, possibly four, times today to repeatedly ask questions about the fundraising software that I'm reasonably sure I answered the first time. How hard is it to understand that you have $27,000 listed for a specific donor, while my accounts only show $5,000, $5,000, $5,000, $5,000, and $2,000 given for the past year, and that this does not add up to $27,000? Hello? Which part of 'I do not know where you got your total, but it has nothing to do with the numbers I entered' did you not understand?
AAARGH!
Someone go get the CFO and have her explain it to him. I'm in no mood to talk to the chief accountant right now. And I know he's probably going to complain about my being short-tempered with him, even though I tried to stomp it before it got anywhere, but he's asked the same questions every time he's brought this account before me, and this time he tried to justify himself by saying 'remember, I don't know the fundraising software'. What is there to know? The column says 'pay-cash' or 'cash', and 'pay-cash' has only ever appeared on pledge payments before! What's so hard about reading that column before looking at the column with the gift amounts in it? Aargh!
(pant pant)
Okay. Sorry. I'll be good now. Gotta go breathe quietly for a while. sorry.
Oh yeah - if anyone's interested, I bought a CD at lunch that looked more impressive than it turned out to be. It's up for sale at eBay. This is it.
But I am about ready to SLAUGHTER our new chief accountant. Sir, exactly what part of 'Gift Type: Pay-Cash', as opposed to 'Gift Type: Cash' or 'Gift Type: Pledge' did you not understand? You're the chief accountant! You're supposed to know that when it says 'pay-cash' - which only ever shows up on pledge payments in the forms that I give you - it means 'do not count this towards the total amount given by this donor, because they already received credit for the pledge'. You're also supposed to know that yes, it looks like the donor retroactively decided to make that money into a pledge payment after the fact, because that is what we discussed the last three times you came into my office with that donor's documentation in your hand, and what I discussed the last eight times our CFO came in. You know? The CFO? The one who actually knows the system? The one who made sure a month ago that my accounts reconciled with yours and matched properly and came out accurately, whom you really should've asked about this donor's account in the first place?
You've been in my mini office three, possibly four, times today to repeatedly ask questions about the fundraising software that I'm reasonably sure I answered the first time. How hard is it to understand that you have $27,000 listed for a specific donor, while my accounts only show $5,000, $5,000, $5,000, $5,000, and $2,000 given for the past year, and that this does not add up to $27,000? Hello? Which part of 'I do not know where you got your total, but it has nothing to do with the numbers I entered' did you not understand?
AAARGH!
Someone go get the CFO and have her explain it to him. I'm in no mood to talk to the chief accountant right now. And I know he's probably going to complain about my being short-tempered with him, even though I tried to stomp it before it got anywhere, but he's asked the same questions every time he's brought this account before me, and this time he tried to justify himself by saying 'remember, I don't know the fundraising software'. What is there to know? The column says 'pay-cash' or 'cash', and 'pay-cash' has only ever appeared on pledge payments before! What's so hard about reading that column before looking at the column with the gift amounts in it? Aargh!
(pant pant)
Okay. Sorry. I'll be good now. Gotta go breathe quietly for a while. sorry.
Oh yeah - if anyone's interested, I bought a CD at lunch that looked more impressive than it turned out to be. It's up for sale at eBay. This is it.
