Auditor alert!! what pains me- employees using accounting/auditing lingo outside of work - examples - a) Oh, I don't know. Our bar tab was immaterial . Not cool, not cool. Say cheap, say inexpensive, but not this. 2) Oh, I go to new york once every quarter . How about - every three months, few months, once in a while. 3) There isn't much of a variance between the two movies How about - difference? 4) "Let's vouch his bill to cash paid" No no....how about..Make sure he paid??? 5) Wanna go bowling? Yea, that appears reasonable. Whatever happened to "okay" 6) can you sign off on that bill? And please, for heaven's sake...lay off on the accounting inside - jokes. It's painful to hear, it really is. I'm sure there are plenty of other auditing terminologies that I missed. Feel free to post them in the comments section.
Blogged about my life in the Big 4 and now about life in Private Accounting