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In February I tried to do a favor for someone in another department at work and it has been haunting me ever since.

A check was deposited to one section (at Paul's request) and then Paul said that due to a re-org it should actually go to another section. Olga didn't know what to do so she called me because I work with her on other accounting issues. I agreed to make the adjustment but because I have trouble with debits and credits (Am I supposed to know that stuff? Actually, yes.) I did the adjustment wrong. I explained the situation to several people I don't know a month ago and each time had to go through the whole story through Olga and back to Paul and when I mentioned Paul they would say, oh okay.

Yesterday I got an e-mail from yet another person I've never heard of requesting that I correct a double posting which was actually my correction and they think it's a double posting because they're only looking at a report for one month. So I shot back an e-mail with a spreadsheet attached showing all the entries and I copied this Paul person and told them, no, I'm not making any changes because it's finally correct.

I got an e-mail back from yet another unknown name saying, basically, okay we get it.

I hope that's the last of it.

Don't mess with the accounting department. We have spreadsheets and we aren't afraid to use them.