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Inexperienced, part time worker needs advice please:- is this illegal?
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Hi everyone. I started work for a sole trader with 8 employees last year, initially just to enter purchase invoices into Sage. On the first day I realised that I had walked into a time bomb waiting to explode. Telephone calls were coming in constantly asking for money and my boss told me to give various reasons/excuses just to give her time to pay. She was telling people that I was in charge of payment ! I managed to get months and months worth of purchases into Sage (crumpled, disorganised and filthy) and then the very, very old receipts and purchase invoices started to arrive, stuffed in carrier bags etc. I spoke to the accountant and felt more confident as they understood the difficulties. I did a years worth of bank reconciliation and managed to get figures together for the accountant so VAT returns could be done off site. I should mention that I have never used Sage before, I am now studying for Sage Certification. Now the problems are really worrying. My employer is now in the process of Voluntary Liquidation but is still trading. The workforce is down to 3, payslips are being raised by the accountant but are being paid by cash. I have no idea where this is coming from or how it will be entered into the accounts as sales invoices seem only to be raised for cheques etc. Cash has been used to pay for purchases for many months now but no cash is shown to be coming into the business. Should I contact the Accountants and voice my concern, just bail out and lose my wage or is there another solution that I have missed? I have a good relationship with the Accountancy Practice, they are also owed a significant sum of money by my employer. I think they will soon refuse to do anymore work for her. I do not know if they are aware of the Voluntary Liquidation. As an unqualified, inexperienced person am I guilty of over reacting or does this sound worrying to you? I do know for certain that the accounts are not accurate and god help a new accountant trying to take over as even I can see that Sage is not set up properly and only shows a tiny snap shot of what is happening. I am due in the office to get figures together for the next VAT return.....but apparently I only have to put a tiny proprtion of purchases thro this quarter due to the liquidation! Advice would be so welcome. Thank you for reading my rant!

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