[ridesthemiles]

I am a life long bookkeeper/accounting person.

I have done bank reconciliations with 40 checks per month & with 6,000 +++ checks per month.

ALWAYS balanced to the penny.

Bank recs are the easiest part of most accounting. NO EXCUSE for this problem. Embezzlement-—find the perps.

[Thank You Rush]

“”I am a life long bookkeeper/accounting person.
Bank recs are the easiest part of most accounting””

Same here - very fulfilling also....

I took a job once where the gal who had it before stayed on for a week to familiarize me with everything. When I brought up bank recs, she opened a desk drawer and pointed to the inside. I said, “What?” She said, “They’re all reconciled.” She was pointing at the cancelled checks from each bank statement neatly filed in numerical order!!!!!

[dfwgator]

Accountant (Michael Palin): Lady Chairman, sir, shareholders, ladies and gentlemen. I have great pleasure in announcing that owing to a cutback on surplus expenditure of twelve million Canadian dollars, plus a refund of seven and a half million Deutschmarks from the Swiss branch, and in addition adding the debenture preference stock of the three and three quarter million to the directors' reserve currency account of seven and a half million, plus an upward expenditure margin of eleven and a half thousand lira, due to a rise in capital investment of ten million pounds, this firm last year made a complete profit of a shilling.

Chairman (Graham Chapman): A shilling Wilkins?

Accountant: Er, roughly, yes sir.

Chairman: Wilkins, I am the Chairman of a multi-million pound corporation and you are a very new chartered accountant. Isn't it possible there may have been some mistake?

Accountant: Well that's very kind of you sir, but I don't think I'm ready to be Chairman yet.

Board Member (John Cleese): Wilkins, Wilkins. This shilling, is it net or gross?

Accountant: It's British sir.

Chairman: Yes, has tax been paid on it?

Accountant: Yes, this is after tax. Owing to the rigorous bite of the income tax five pence of a further sixpence was swallowed up in tax.

Board Member: Five pence of a further sixpence?

Accountant: (eagerly) Yes sir.

Chairman: Five pence of a further sixpence?

Accountant: That's right sir.

Chairman: Then where is the other penny?

Accountant: Er...

Board Member: That makes you a penny short Wilkins. Where is it?

Accountant: Erm...

Chairman: Wilkins?

Accountant: (in tears) I embezzled it sir.

Chairman: What all of it?

Accountant: Yes all of it.

Board Member: You naughty person.

Accountant: It's my first. Please be gentle with me.

Chairman: I'm afraid it's my unpleasant duty to inform you that you're fired.

Accountant: Oh please, please.

Chairman: No, out!