Saturday, 7 February 2015

Accounting Trouble



Every month I do some accounting of our expenses and our income.  I was doing some checking of the rental property management fees.  I had made some assumptions about the rent that was collected.  The management company calculates their fees based on the rent collected.  I also calculated the management fee based on the calendar month.  I found that the management fee was all wrong.  Barb asked me to write it all down so she could call the management company and straighten it out.

Barb couldn’t figure out my notes.  So we went over them together with the management company reports that they sent her.  When we looked at the management reports and the bank account, I found out that I had made a lot of bad assumptions and the management fees were actually right on.

Barb was so happy that she had straightened it out before she phoned the management company.  She would have been so embarrassed if she had accused them of messing up their fees only to find out that my accounting was all confused and there was no problem after all.

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