lighter side of .... Being Finance guys....

there is a saying 'work is a part of life not life onto itself' -anynomous.

and being in a quarter end...i decided to look at the lighter things that this throws out...

In any finance guy the following are the dreaded terms..

Laptop - more like a girl friend For some its an extension of themselves... feels odd if you aint around with u r laptop....
Note comes with a cavet - "always keep working!"

SAP(or any ERP) - the holy bible.... also turns itself into as a Satan from time to time.

ExcelSheet - The messiah! of above.

Month ends - 7 days of absolute crazyness... symptoms range from dreaming about excel in your dreams to replying "i am 8.9% down month on month"when someone asks you a simple "how are you?"

Quarter ends - The father of month ends... where within a span of 5 days you get an insight as to what hell actually is...

Year end (Q4 )- may the lord have mercy!

MIS - which falls right after month/year ends where everyone snaps at you for no apparent reason...

Quarter end audits - where u haggle constantly with the auditor and keeping swearing him with the choicest language (mentally ofcourse) and yet give him the details with a smile..


Process improvements - where You make a beautiful note which no one follows...

weekly reviews - where u have to show each week that you have worked and not merely coming to office for attendance and there must be some path breaking thing that you should have done.

weekly Meetings - where u are expected to come up with some brilliant idea and the boss takes the credit for it.

Budgets! - where there always will be over-runs.... despite spending hours on it.

"OM & Revenue walks" - to explain the gap between a faulty bugeting and a faulty operation!

Reconciliation - Be all and end all of every accounts guy.

Revenue Recognition - where you try hard to reverse what the sales team had achieved.
"Note - Auditors use this as a vital weapon"

Accounting Standards - we have studied it... we know it... but if you ask abt it, i have to refer my book.....

and finally ....

Boss - who believes that everything should happen at the click of his fingers and holds you squarely responsible if something goes wrong....

Auditors - the people on whom you vent your frustrations on!