#37 Period-End Assessments
Apr 15th, 2009 by pfi
After busy season (or in reality, after each assignment), accountants fill out a self-assessment form. The thinking here is that accountants can be honest with themselves and write down all the things that went well and all the things that can be improved upon. The reality is that it’s a non-stop fluff piece that wastes paper and more important – time.
A period-end assessment is a written, self-review of strengths, weaknesses, and ratings. After being submitted for approval by higher-uppers, these forms become lost in endless files. Ratings are important because accountants, as everybody knows, can be boiled down to a number.
When you see a review with statements about “a challenging opportunity,” “enjoyed working with the team,” and “glad to help out over the weekend,” you know the accountant is saying the opposite.
Still, you can’t blame an accountant when the whole point of a review is to gauge how much the accountant has sucked up to the person(s) reviewing them. Even if they made honest, innocent mistakes, they wouldn’t mention it for rightful fear of losing their job.
Accountants spend much of their careers filling out these self-reviews and assessing others. The smart one simply adopt a template and “rollforward” their previous review for the current one.
One reason accountants spend so much time on reviews, is that the review cycle is confusing and arbitrary. At first, reviews were done on an annual basis. Then reviews were due after each assignment. Now, reviews may be semi-annual, quarterly, seasonal, etc. As if that wasn’t enough, review deadlines are often changed around. If this all sounds backwards to you, it’s because it is backwards.
Reviews don’t have much purpose besides creating a paper trail for the HR department. Reviews are often rubber stamped through or an opportunity to throw someone under the bus.
If it’s not busy season or training, you can assume an accountant is filling out reviews.
It’s not my first time to pay a quick visit this website, i am visiting this web site dailly and get nice data from here all the time.|
Hi I am so delighted I found your blog, I really found you by accident, while I was looking on Yahoo for something else, Anyways I am here now and would just like to say kudos for a tremendous post and a all round exciting blog (I also love the theme/design), I don’t have time to look over it all at the moment but I have book-marked it and also added your RSS feeds, so when I have time I will be back to read much more, Please do keep up the fantastic work.|
I’m not sure where you are getting your info, but great topic. I needs to spend some time learning more or understanding more. Thanks for fantastic information I was looking for this information for my mission.|
the time to read or go to the material or websites we’ve linked to below the
This piece of writing offers clear idea for the new people of blogging,
that really how to do blogging.
An fascinating discussion is worth comment. I believe that you should write extra on this matter, it might not be a taboo topic however generally persons are not sufficient to talk on such topics. To the next. Cheers
I will remember to bookmark your log and will eventually come baxk in the future.
usually posts some quite exciting stuff like this. If you are new to this site
Nice post. I learn something new and challenging on sites I stumbleupon every day.
check beneath, are some absolutely unrelated sites to ours, nevertheless, they are most trustworthy sources that we use
The subsequent time I learn a weblog, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as much as this one. I mean, I know it was my choice to read, however I truly thought youd have something fascinating to say. All I hear is a bunch of whining about something that you possibly can fix in the event you werent too busy searching for attention.
I just like thhe valuable information you supply on your articles.
I will bookark your blog aand check once more right here frequently.
Check below, are some entirely unrelated websites to ours, on the other hand, they are most trustworthy sources that we use.
We came across a cool web page that you might love. Take a search when you want.
The following time I learn a weblog, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as a lot as this one. I mean, I do know it was my option to learn, but I actually thought youd have one thing fascinating to say. All I hear is a bunch of whining about something that you might repair in case you werent too busy looking for attention.
I’m slightly sure I will be informed lots of new stuff proper here!
Here are a few of the web-sites we recommend for our visitors
Here are several of the websites we advise for our visitors