Accounting Errors
Sep. 9th, 2005 04:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
perzephone
Something I already do: If something is out of balance & it is twice another number, it usually means the original number was reported as a positive but is actually negative, or vice versa. I.e., I write a clerk's variance as being short .10c, but they are really over .10c, the out-of-balance amount will be short .20c & I have to add .10c twice to balance.
Something I plan on doing, & it is the only thing I've retained from a day's worth of reading: Divide the out-of-balance amount by 9 to estimate if you've added or subtracted a zero from the end of a number, or to see if you've transposed a number. I do this all the freaking time, and now I know how to find it.
Something I plan on doing, & it is the only thing I've retained from a day's worth of reading: Divide the out-of-balance amount by 9 to estimate if you've added or subtracted a zero from the end of a number, or to see if you've transposed a number. I do this all the freaking time, and now I know how to find it.
