Tomorrow, i get to bring my various documents and assorted records to the accountant. There's a reason i use an accountant, he kept me from buying Uncle Sam a new car, so shush.
Tonight, i'm going through last year's records of receipts, records, and statements and sorting them into paperclipped groups of 1099-whatevers. Mind you, Anne Marie is obsessive about organization, so it's more a question of culling than clipping.
A few weeks ago, his office sent us a questionnaire filled with various helpful questions like: Please itemize your interests here:" and "Please total your dividend income here".
Uh– no.
Look, i appreciate being efficient and trying to get your customers to do more work so you don't have to, but my taxes really aren't rocket surgery. i'm also paying you, Mr. Accounting Person, good cash. You can pay your monkey to hunt down as well as type in the numbers, thankyouverymuch.
(Huh, wonder if i can charge him $75 an hour for him to write code for me?)
As a follow up, i told my guy that i didn't fill in the numbers. He just laughed, and asked if the questions helped me remember stuff.
I agreed that it did.
"Good. That's all I really wanted."
Have I mentioned that I REALLY like my accountant?
He must be pretty good if you go all the way up to Redwood City for him.
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my guy does the same thing only he adds a little blurb on the cover sheet about how this makes it more efficient and ending up costing you less, blah blah blah.
I wonder if I add up the numbers wrong and enter them on the worksheet incorrectly, if he will catch it. If he does, then there really is no reason to do it in the first place since he is already doing the work. If he doesn't, then what is the point of having an accountant anyway…