Busy

The word of the last couple months is..."busy." As in busy season. Now to begin, let me state that I don't do taxes. I know...I know...I should have told you to sit down. I am an auditor. That means I do financial statements. I learned tax well enough to pass the CPA exam and now I get to do audits of company's financial statements to make sure they are fairly stated. Notice how I did not say the word correct. When it comes to audit language we say, "there are no material misstatements." I'll let you try and figure out what that means. In a simplified way, we make sure that they have all the assets (cash, equipment etc.) they say they have, and that they really earned all the money they said they did. Then we check and make sure they have told you all the money they owe to other people/businesses. I really enjoy my job, while it may sound boring to others, there are so many challenges and the problems are always really interesting to solve.

Last week I was in charge of finishing 8 audits, which meant 8 sets of financial statements. I looked like this:

It took a huge effort to get it all done by the deadline (March 29), but we did it one day early (March 28). If you want an idea of what financial statements are....click here for some financials for one of our clients that recently filed.

Here is me and some of my audit team working at the client's office. We spent a lot of time together, but we had an awesome group which makes it pretty entertaining.

From Left to Right: Shaun Anderson, Me, Jonathan Gee, Helen Larsen. Not pictured: Oxana Nichitin and Stetson Morris who was taking the picture. 

We would spend up to 12 hours together in this room. However, this meant that Shantel took on even more responsibility to take care of this girl.

She worked so much to keep her happy and healthy. Plus, she always made sure I had a delicious dinner not matter what time I came home. See how good these look?

 

I am grateful for how much she supports me in my job and is understanding when I have to work late.

Now we are just a few weeks away from the end of busy season and then we will have to take a vacation. Where should we go?