Re:The End of the Accounting Search
by jimnotgym on Sunday May 21, 2023 @04:41PM
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I think it is the naive idea that bookkeeping is accounting.
I am an accountant, I never do any bookkeeping.
Last week a few things I did were
1) worked on a way to get sales rebates to correctly reflect in the product cost. This is half accounting knowledge and half ERP.
2) presented accounts at a meeting where I was trying to use the numbers to make the business take a different strategic direction.
3) reviewed and questioned the commercial sense in other people's plans
4) worked out how to run a new process through the ERP so the accounts flowed through correctly
In other weeks I may be forecasting cash needs, doing an investment appraisal, building business plans, getting funding, writing sql to get data, building a BI system...
I like the creativity and the amazing variety of what I get to do in accounts.
I am an accountant, I never do any bookkeeping.
Last week a few things I did were
1) worked on a way to get sales rebates to correctly reflect in the product cost. This is half accounting knowledge and half ERP.
2) presented accounts at a meeting where I was trying to use the numbers to make the business take a different strategic direction.
3) reviewed and questioned the commercial sense in other people's plans
4) worked out how to run a new process through the ERP so the accounts flowed through correctly
In other weeks I may be forecasting cash needs, doing an investment appraisal, building business plans, getting funding, writing sql to get data, building a BI system...
I like the creativity and the amazing variety of what I get to do in accounts.