{"id":99,"date":"2009-01-27T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T01:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2009-01-27T17:12:27","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T01:12:27","slug":"10-document-retention-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"#10 Document Retention Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-104\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ironmountainbox.jpg\" alt=\"ironmountainbox\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>A fashion staple for accountants is the document retention box. You will find document retention boxes all over the place at offices and homes of accountants. Nothing says &#8220;I have lots of work to do&#8221; as clearly as stacks of boxes filled with binders, workpapers, and office supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Document retention boxes help meet the requirements of mandatory storage. Accountants may be required to keep documents for <a title=\"seven years\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.gov\/rules\/final\/33-8180.htm\" target=\"_self\">seven years<\/a>. An example of a popular, highly fashionable document retention box is the Iron Mountain box. It is always in style, and you can tell who is the <em>most popular<\/em> simply by who has the most boxes.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus tip: Accountants may refer to document retention boxes as CYA boxes. While people may tell you CYA stands for things like Current Year Audit or CompanY Accounting, don&#8217;t be fooled. CYA actually stands for Cover Your Ass. When in doubt what is required to be retained, accountants pretty much toss everything into CYA boxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fashion staple for accountants is the document retention box. You will find document retention boxes all over the place at offices and homes of accountants. Nothing says &#8220;I have lots of work to do&#8221; as clearly as stacks of boxes filled with binders, workpapers, and office supplies. Document retention boxes help meet the requirements [&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":[25,24,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}