Lisa “B4by-G” Mok

Remember yesterday i said that the accountant will be back from her leave? so today, i met her and i was doing the PnL section (profit and loss). And there is this payroll fluxtuation analysis that i need to do..but i don’t have the number of headcount in Feb’06.

So, i went to her and ask whether she knows the number of headcount in February.. i told her that it is not in the payroll summary - she attached in the journal voucher.

then she checked it out and also can’t find the information, so she said she’s going to fotocopy the payroll summary as a proof to her boss that the headcount number is not there.

client: ok, i’ll ask my boss about the headcount number. i fotocopy this payroll summary so my boss can see that the headcount number is not there. =)

me : okay. thanks. btw, your boss - Chelsea? (i am thinking of making appointment to do some analytical reviews with her boss who is the Finance Controller)

client: no, not Chelsea. i am going to ask chelsia

me : chelsia ?! who is she? (i thought the FC name is chelsea?!)

client : my boss lor *with singlish accent*

me : eh?! so then.. Who is Chelsea?

client: Chelsea is a soccer team.

me : what? soccer team? ( i thought this company is only sell branded items i.e. Dior, Loewe, LV or does Dior also manufacture a soccer apparel!? why i never heard of it. I was like… shoot..is there any entity i don’t even know of..and this is already the 3rd day of the audit. how to meet the deadline?!?!?!)

Client: yeah..Chelsea is a soccer team’s name. my FC name is Chelsia… c.h.e.l.s.i.a. =D

me: oh…ok ok.. hahaha…   *Geez… blur already*

my co-worker said.."cow also die if working like this"

I think everybody is working like crazy this past few weeks

Happy auditing season everyone!

Happy new year everyone! I know it’s 17 days late..but I’ve been very busy like hell..

So, here is the recap for the past 17 days since the 2007 start.

31 Dec 06.. when it almost midnight, my auntie passed away. She was diagnosed with cancer in Feb’06..but when she found out about it, the cancer is already on the last stage. When i first informed about it, i felt so helpless..like there is nothing i can do about it (except maybe..just pray) *thanks chu for remind me of it*

2 Jan, I can’t go to the funeral..coz i need to go back to sg…and 3rd Jan, was the first working day.

and then the busy season begins..

1st thing that get me excited is the call i had from "uncle Sam". Think that the conversation went well, but i hasn’t heard anything from them again.

other thing is ..since the new year start, i’ve been working almost 24/7.. well not really 24/7 though, it’s more like 20/7. First saturday in Jan, I was working until 6 in the morning - the next day (a.ka. sunday), slept for only less than 2 hours, then went to church with my friend. Church finished on around 12.30..i was extremly tired and hungry. Accidently bumped into one of my cell group members, they are having lunch together.. but i decided to go back home and get some sleep.. i think the last thing i want is to socialize with ppl, while i don’t even have enough time to sleep..(can forget about time to pamper myself). ><

Monday was even more crazy.. the client gave the TB on last friday afternoon, the partner want to review on Tuesday, the work must be submitted to HK on Thursday..which translated into extreme long OT hours. I ended up worked until 5 in the moring for 3 consecutives days!

Good thing is my team member are all very supportive, even the new assistant who just join the firm is also willing to ’sacrifice’ his time. Usually after we left the client’s office on around 2 a.m., i continued doing work at our office. On Wednesday, the day before the deadline, I asked the new assistant to go back home while i continued working at office ..but he insisted to stay and helped out. (Thank God, I know You not just send anyhow person for the job). We managed to send the things on Thursday, left outstanding matters from client.

Thursday I went to another client, can’t really think effectively, because i didn’t get enough sleep.. plus I found that the US GAAP adjutment to SFRS is very confusing..with all the carry foward adjustment which never been adjusted in the book.   I wonder why the company that is going to shut down (effective 1 Jan 07) still need to be audited. (btw, this is the first and also the last time we are doing the audit for the Company). so can you imagine that…after all the process of understanding the client business, walkthrough and test of controls  to ALL the documentations (and confusions), the working papers are not going to serve any purpose in the future. Worked until 3 in the morning on Friday. Saturday, I went to office after lunch and worked until 5 in the morning. Monday, the review notes came out, so need to follow up the things with client.. and I only have 2 days booking for this client, so again..need to do the OT to finish it, and that made me worked until 3 in the morning last night and managed to submit the files to the manager.

This morning, when i just woke up..i met my landlady at the pantry when i was about to get a shower. She asked me why i’ve been going home very late lately.. she tought that i was going out with friend? so i told her that i was working and doing OT at office. And i asked her whether her son (who also work in the same firm with me, but he is in the IT-audit line) also back very late? (whenever i reached home, he already slept..so i don’t know when he reached home). and this is what my landlady said " my son also work until very late, that time he went back at 8 p.m."  and there i was..stuned..speechless. (hello…8 p.m. is early!?!?!?). Oh well, i think different people have different ‘fate’. >_+

Today, I went to another client. This time the job is not that crazy..because ‘unfortunately’ the accounting staff is on leave..so there is nothing much we can do at client’s office. I reached home on 9 p.m. THIS is what i called going back early. =D

And tomorrow is another day..

*God bless me*