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Accounting Stuff, General Comments Off

Aug 062010

For the last couple of days, I’ve been doing month-end maintenance.

I’ve reconciled Quickbooks with the bank, and with the office manager’s records of donations to the church. I did the month-end entries and transfers. I printed the numerous reports that will be needed by the Stewardship Committee next week.

Cricket patiently walked me through the whole process; there’s a remote-login program installed so she can see what I’m doing from her computer, and she talked to me on the phone as I went through all the steps. I took copious notes as we went along. Frequently she would stop me and ask why we were doing this or that, or what I thought we should do next, making me think about it so she could be sure I was understanding the process.

My brain hurts. It was fantastic.

“You don’t even need me any more,” she moped as we were finishing up. Then she brightened. “Oh wait, next month is the end of the quarter—you’ll need me for that!”

Oh, yes. Yes, I will.

OMG FISH

Cat Tales, General Comments Off

Aug 052010

The Director had never happened to be in the kitchen when I opened a can of tuna.

As a result, he had never witnessed the performance.

*crack open tuna*

*cat appears out of thin air*

Duchess: Is that fish?! I want fish!! I love fish! It smells so good! PLEASE give me fish! I must have some fish! OMG I HAVE NOT EATEN IN THREE WEEKS AND I WILL KEEL OVER DEAD IF I DON’T GET FISH RIGHT THIS MINUTE!!!

*accompanied by weaving around my legs, stretching up toward the counter, and general feline drama and histrionics*

Me: Here, just a little.

Duchess: NOM NOM NOM MOAR PLZ

The Director: Do all cats meow that much when you have fish?

Me: Pretty much, yeah.

Slow Week

Accounting Stuff, General Comments Off

Aug 032010

Things are still pretty slow at the church office. Which is fine, as I’m still learning how everything works.

Cricket has everything all set up to be efficient and streamlined and organized; all I really have to do is follow her system and I look like I know what the hell I’m doing. Last week our associate pastor stopped in and asked if the payroll stubs had been distributed yet—they had been. Then he wanted to make sure the head of the preschool had gotten hers—she had. He was pleased that everything was taken care of already. All I did was follow the schedule Cricket set up for me on my calendar: payroll is due on the 15th and the 30th, and she schedules us to actually run payroll a couple of days early so we’ve got some buffer time in case there are problems. This has the side effect of making me look incredibly efficient and on the ball when I have the payroll done the day before it’s due.

Right now the only real bee in my bonnet is that I don’t yet have access to the server, which means I can’t back up Quickbooks. This makes me twitchy. The problem with using volunteers to perform IT functions is that they can only come do things when they have time between paying jobs. Rumor has it our IT volunteer will be coming by this week to get things set up for me.

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