Yikes, I almost had to fly over to my office on Monday or Tuesday morning at the latest. We are being audited by IRS and Tuesday morning is the first meeting with the auditor. When we talked to our CPA earlier he said usually he can do these audits from his office, but this auditor wants to come to our office (it sounds really only because it's closer to the auditor's office than our CPA is!). He also recommended I NOT be there and my boss be minimally available during the time the auditor is there. That way, if he starts asking a bunch of questions or for more documents, they can tell him, I work remote and have him give a list and we'll get that to him. CPA says that's what he always tells auditors that come and work out of his office - he'll have to get that, he'll have to check on that. By the time the day is done, the 15 requests end up getting whittled down to like 5, haha.
But, he also wants the initial meeting, at our office, to go in the fashion that the auditor feels comfortable and confident in how we explain our company and accounting process. He said if he feels like we know what we are doing, then it usually goes smoother. We had decided I'd be in on the initial Tuesday morning meeting via phone conference. Then late this afternoon my boss gets a bee in her bonnet that maybe I should be there in person. UGH!! I am so behind on work (because of this new payroll company hassle) that I really don't have time to take a day off to travel.
Then I remembered Tuesday is payroll processing day. I for sure don't have time to travel or try to do it from a temp desk over there. Whew. I'm staying put.
I have a daily goal of $8 for MTurks. Today I had only done $4.24. Boo. I went downstairs to get dinner started and in the oven. While waiting for the oven to preheat I looked at my emails. One saying I got a $1.80 MTurk bonus. Nice. Then another email saying there was a 10 min follow survey Hit I could do for $3, must be done by midnight. I needed to go back up to my office anyway to finish up some work, so I did that quickly. Now I'm at $9 for today.
I am glad you got out of flying out to the office.
ReplyDeleteMe too, I don't like short notice things. I like to be planned out ahead of time
DeleteHope the audit goes well! I'm glad you don't have to fly out to be there in person!
ReplyDeleteI glad too. Such a relief.
DeleteI had my share of encounters with a variety of auditors during the sale of the last company I worked for. I am glad you do not have to fly over there. Your CPA sounds smart.
ReplyDeleteWe were IRS audited like 20 years ago, but before both boss and I were there (but we had same CPA) and then had a state audit about 12 years ago, which went fine.
DeleteWe used to have external auditors come in every year and I never minded it. If you know your stuff it's quite satisfying!
ReplyDeleteWe don't have external auditors, since we are small private company, but IRS is a bit more nervewracking.
DeleteMy life seems to involve auditing of some sort. At my old job, the audit happened in August as the fiscal year closed June 30th. It was usually pain free other than the dumb demands to cross reference the purpose of our work, with the funding. Some of the team got a little too uppity because they would call out an expenses that clearly was appropriate, because they didn't understand the work.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure our CPA will basically handle most of if - that's what we pay him for ;)
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