I am wombat.
I am the wombat. :)
Wrote a fic, had some thoughts, did my QBA problems for Friday and drew a comic at the end that was inspired by Hark! A Vagrant!'s "younger self" comics. Younger me is telling present me that she hates math and doesn't want to be "a 'hcountant," and present me is saying that actually it's a lot of fun.
Future me is knitting, off to one side, and is wearing an eye patch and a monocle, and says that I end up being a space pirate. Because who says that what I end up doing will have anything to do with my major? My dad has a bachelor's degree in forestry. He's a finance manager for a good-sized company in Reading, and has his CPA license. With a degree in forestry.
So this is me, Future Space Pirate, writing to you from the time that is now.
Time to go study Advanced Accounting, because there is a test tomorrow, and it's on Governmental Entities and General Fund Accounting, Special Funds and Government-Wide Financial Statements, and Not-For-Profit Entities. Interesting stuff! Very interesting! It's just really, really confusing because I've spent the past two and a half...hang on...[sums on fingers] two years, funny how these run together, learning how to do accrual basis accounting. I've gotten pretty good at it, I think, as long as you don't want me to do journal entries for your stupid pension fund (piss on your pension fund! leave me alone!) or tell you all the nuances of deferred taxes (pay your taxes on time and then we won't have to do this nonsense). It's almost entirely intuitive, now, except NOW you're throwing me into modified accrual basis and that's more like cash flows via journal entry. CASH FLOWS are DEATH, that is all you need to know.
(I can make an income statement and a balance sheet with relative ease, and you know they're right because total assets equals total liabilities plus equity. But cash flows? I have gotten a grand total of ONE cash flows statement to work out, and that wasn't even me. That was B., mostly, while I worked on the accompanying notes to the financial statements. When we couldn't focus anymore, we switched roles. We did this until five o'clock in the morning [I do not exaggerate; I have the email I sent Dom in my "sent" folder and it is marked 4:55am] in the cafe above the dining hall. And then she said, very quietly, "Michelle. I have it, I think. It is working." I fell asleep in Dom's tax class and he was really nice about it; he just said, "No, no, it's completely okay, just do me one favor. Go home, right now. And go to sleep. Okay?" Long story short, I am working with some amazing people here.)
So, all in all, it is easier than cash flows, but not intuitive. It is the opposite of intuitive. It isn't even counterintuitive. It is anti-intuitive. It is evil, and I don't like doing it.
But I guess I'll go and do it, now. Because even space pirates need to know how to balance a budget.
Also, rainbowjehan , I have crack for you in my Frigidaire! :)
Wrote a fic, had some thoughts, did my QBA problems for Friday and drew a comic at the end that was inspired by Hark! A Vagrant!'s "younger self" comics. Younger me is telling present me that she hates math and doesn't want to be "a 'hcountant," and present me is saying that actually it's a lot of fun.
Future me is knitting, off to one side, and is wearing an eye patch and a monocle, and says that I end up being a space pirate. Because who says that what I end up doing will have anything to do with my major? My dad has a bachelor's degree in forestry. He's a finance manager for a good-sized company in Reading, and has his CPA license. With a degree in forestry.
So this is me, Future Space Pirate, writing to you from the time that is now.
Time to go study Advanced Accounting, because there is a test tomorrow, and it's on Governmental Entities and General Fund Accounting, Special Funds and Government-Wide Financial Statements, and Not-For-Profit Entities. Interesting stuff! Very interesting! It's just really, really confusing because I've spent the past two and a half...hang on...[sums on fingers] two years, funny how these run together, learning how to do accrual basis accounting. I've gotten pretty good at it, I think, as long as you don't want me to do journal entries for your stupid pension fund (piss on your pension fund! leave me alone!) or tell you all the nuances of deferred taxes (pay your taxes on time and then we won't have to do this nonsense). It's almost entirely intuitive, now, except NOW you're throwing me into modified accrual basis and that's more like cash flows via journal entry. CASH FLOWS are DEATH, that is all you need to know.
(I can make an income statement and a balance sheet with relative ease, and you know they're right because total assets equals total liabilities plus equity. But cash flows? I have gotten a grand total of ONE cash flows statement to work out, and that wasn't even me. That was B., mostly, while I worked on the accompanying notes to the financial statements. When we couldn't focus anymore, we switched roles. We did this until five o'clock in the morning [I do not exaggerate; I have the email I sent Dom in my "sent" folder and it is marked 4:55am] in the cafe above the dining hall. And then she said, very quietly, "Michelle. I have it, I think. It is working." I fell asleep in Dom's tax class and he was really nice about it; he just said, "No, no, it's completely okay, just do me one favor. Go home, right now. And go to sleep. Okay?" Long story short, I am working with some amazing people here.)
So, all in all, it is easier than cash flows, but not intuitive. It is the opposite of intuitive. It isn't even counterintuitive. It is anti-intuitive. It is evil, and I don't like doing it.
But I guess I'll go and do it, now. Because even space pirates need to know how to balance a budget.
Also, rainbowjehan , I have crack for you in my Frigidaire! :)