{"id":368,"date":"2009-03-25T23:26:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T07:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2009-03-25T23:29:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T07:29:31","slug":"33-copying-and-pasting-procedures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"#33 Copying and Pasting Procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ctrl_cut_copy_paste.jpg\" alt=\"ctrl_cut_copy_paste\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" \/>An accountant doesn&#8217;t have to be creative to get the job done. Sure, being creative and expertly documenting (read: rationalizing errors) helps. In reality, an accountant doesn&#8217;t even need to know accounting principles to get their job done. Being able to copy and paste procedures, make <a title=\"tickmarks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/?p=112\" target=\"_self\">tickmarks<\/a>, and put documentation (header, <a title=\"workpapers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/?p=56\" target=\"_self\">workpaper reference<\/a>, purpose, etc) is all that&#8217;s required.<\/p>\n<p>With a <a title=\"softcopy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/?p=312\" target=\"_self\">softcopy<\/a> of prior period work, an accountant can get anything done. A little copy and paste action here from last year, add some rollforwards of dates, update the names and an accountant is ready to bluff their way out of their next assignment. A common mistake accountants have to be careful of making is putting the wrong company name. When an accountant works on multiple companies, all their documents tend to look alike &#8211; because they are the same.<\/p>\n<p>If an accountant is not copying and pasting procedures, you will find them trimming procedures. Why? Because the budget has gotten smaller (see: <a title=\"eating hours\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/?p=84\" target=\"_self\">eating hours<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>An accountant armed with copy, cut, paste, find, and replace is an efficient accounting machine. Work will get done, deadlines may be met, and the quality-level will be enough to pass on further inspection.<\/p>\n<p>If you find a keyboard with worn out CTRL, C, and V keys, you will know that it belongs to an accountant. (If you thought of the <a title=\"command key\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Command_key\" target=\"_self\">command key<\/a>, that would be incorrect.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An accountant doesn&#8217;t have to be creative to get the job done. Sure, being creative and expertly documenting (read: rationalizing errors) helps. In reality, an accountant doesn&#8217;t even need to know accounting principles to get their job done. Being able to copy and paste procedures, make tickmarks, and put documentation (header, workpaper reference, purpose, etc) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[129,128,132,130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}