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[JD]

On 08/01/2012 08:30 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> it.   The funny thing is that although it apparently takes intelligence to
> “get” accounting is that at the same time accounting becomes very routine and
> boring to those of us who do “get” it which is why I made the move into IT
> long ago.

When I was forced to deal with accounting, I found that it didn't make sense -
the rules seemed arbitrary to me and simply needed to be memorized since a
general rule wouldn't work 100%. There wasn't any logic.  I still feel that way.

My companies pay an accountant and I keep the unofficial company records inside
Quicken (running under WINE).  I can track a check book register without issues
and assign categories too. ;) The doubt entry stuff seemed like 2x more work
than is necessary for a small business.

I'm certain this shows my ignorance. That's fine. We can't know and understand
everything.

I've tried to get our accountants to encrypt emails to us. They don't "get it"
either.  We always send them encrypted data. I'm fairly certain our data is not
secure on their computer systems, but that is probably an issue at all but the
largest accounting companies.

I'm a former rocket scientist, BTW.