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These invoices are about A6 size. It looks as though a dog has been at it. I'm not blaming the client - I'm blaming the person issuing the invoice. I've removed anything identifying the client.

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Dog's been at this one



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Lol Peasie. A client owned a Rottweiller which kindly brought the post in from the letterbox to the lounge. The thing is, he didn't let go once he'd arrived. Said client actually brought me a months bank statements once with an arc-shaped jagged piece removed from the right hand side (where the amounts are). Goodness knows what he thought I was going to do with them in that state. I should have scanned them for posterity.

The butcher might be able to identify your client if this is from a duplicate invoice book.
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The butcher might be able to identify your client if this is from a duplicate invoice book.
Tim


That's true - I'm not bothered about that - it was more from a client's point of view posting their receipt online although I don't think they'd be too bothered. 



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Don't you just love these kinds of receipts !!

I just got a client that uses an invoice template that has been photocopied maybe a million times and has the same invoice number on it that goes back a couple of years !!

Got my work cut out with this one I think !!!

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I have seen people who seemed to use their van dashboard as their filing cabinet. Unfortunately, the receipts that hadn't been faded by the sun until illegible had instead been coffee-splattered so the ink had run; then every few months or so, they swept the whole lot into a box along with assorted wrappers, debris and unknown gunk.

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well, we've all seen the accounting equation. How about a new bookkeepers equation (in handy pictorial form) :

x-liner.jpg + x-bookkeeper.jpg + x-iron.jpg + x-computer.jpg = x-Folders.jpg

 

p.s. edited to try and get the equation all on one line... but here's the large version of the picture that I know that you are all relating to...

x-bookkeeper.jpg



-- Edited by Shamus on Sunday 20th of May 2012 04:06:38 PM

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Figurate wrote:

I have seen people who seemed to use their van dashboard as their filing cabinet. Unfortunately, the receipts that hadn't been faded by the sun until illegible had instead been coffee-splattered so the ink had run; then every few months or so, they swept the whole lot into a box along with assorted wrappers, debris and unknown gunk.


 Working on one like that as we speak.

Have to admire his skill though. Just don't know how he manages to cram six months worth of fuel receipts into the ashtray



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Have to admire his skill though. Just don't know how he manages to cram six months worth of fuel receipts into the ashtray

Just as we learn techniques such as making a crease in the paper before punching holes it to ensure it is centred and all the sheets align, they are taught the skill of cramming fuel receipts into an ashtray. It's part of their apprenticeship. They are also taught the knack of  leaving invoices out in the sunlight to fade the ink beyond readability.



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Shamus wrote:

well, we've all seen the accounting equation. How about a new bookkeepers equation (in handy pictorial form) :   


A Hearts fan tried the iron on his cup final ticket.

http://local.stv.tv/edinburgh/99898-hearts-fan-burnt-his-cup-final-ticket-trying-to-iron-out-creases/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter



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lol Peasie.

what a muppet. professionals like us know that you need to put the paper under a tea towel to iron it!

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Shamus wrote:

lol Peasie.

what a muppet. professionals like us know that you need to put the paper under a tea towel to iron it!


According to that article he did put it in a tea towel. But he's a Hearts fan, so as you say, "what a muppet". 



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Shamus wrote:

lol Peasie.

what a muppet. professionals like us know that you need to put the paper under a tea towel to iron it!


 Absolutely but avoid starching. Might adapt the formula to calculate fees

x-liner.jpg* X^3 (to get volume) +x-bookkeeper.jpg height (in centimetres) * x-iron.jpgwattage * x-computer.jpg* hours spent + x-Folders.jpg cost per folder = £15/hour (minus lost weekend)

 

Hope I haven't made an arithmatic error like Sheldon, when he met Stephen Hawking

Peasie , just spotted your website link - nice one



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By golly I think that we're onto something Bill.

Cancel the summer, we'll pad it out to a book, call it a methodology, do a lecture tour and retire!!!




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OR...

we adopt the consultant approach.

You write the book, develop the methodology, do the lecture tour.... And I retire on the proceeds wink



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