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Rainbow Serpent Woman ([personal profile] perzephone) wrote2005-09-09 04:43 am
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Accounting Errors

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.