Showing posts with label Accounting Code. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Accounting Code. Show all posts

ETHICAL DILEMMA - DO I COME CLEAN

I'm a management accountant and every year-end we have to send in this big formal report on our companies performance to the global guys.  Real pain in the ass to complete but one of those things you have to do.

Anyway, few months ago we had our year end and it was horrendous as always but got the damn thing in on time.  But then, a few weeks after I was looking through it and randomly looked at the stock numbers (which is a huge thing for our business and basically everyone all the way up the chain looks at) and realised that it was all, completely wrong.... SHIIITTT!!  This thing was very very high profile and I was having flashes of my boss with my head on a skewer!

I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT

I'm a senior finance manager in a fairly big, successful company.  I'm only about a year and a half out of my training contract in practice so it's a really good role and fantastic pay.  But the interview was hilarious and depressingly familiar. 

My potential boss starts talking about all the financial systems they use, TM1, SAP, etc. etc.  I, of course have never used any of them in practice but I sure don't tell her that.  The one good thing I did learn in audit is it's all about sounding like you know what you're talking about and the best way of doing that is saying as little as possible.