How'd you get your numbers? Like...what all did you do? An accounting cycle is just the myriad steps taken to present final audited numbers to investors, the government, and IRS...and all three sets of numbers may differ.
The cycle focuses on everything from how the data is gathered, getting sales receipts from multiple sources, notionally lessening the possibility of fraudulent reporting...to the way in which those numbers are processed...to the manner in which acquisitions are depreciated and how technical debts are accounted for. It's a cycle that has a quarterly and annual spin on the wheel, and then the fun starts all over again.
And yes, it is fun as you bill your hundred bucks an hour and change for doing that voodoo you do.
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Finance: What is the IRS?19 Views
Finance allah shmoop What is the i r s Well
i rest might be the three most hated letters in
the alphabet Well after d m v a pms and
well maybe std The i r s is the internal
revenue service Their internal i e inside the government they're
in charge of collecting revenue A k a They take
money from your pocket in the form of taxes and
they deliver it to uncle sam and they you know
service you and it doesn't feel good So yeah these
are the guys from the us treasury department who checked
to make sure you filled out your income tax forms
correctly and submitted the proper amount And if you screwed
up in any way they will let you know about
it and a half in the form of angry letters
Phone calls knocks on your front door rocks through your
back window Whatever it takes to get you to pay
your fair share of taxes Like why should you get
away with not paying when the jones has paid all
they owed Or the irs can do even worse and
audit you with an audit he irs will request extensive
and very specific information and records from you Paycheck deductions
all kinds of things You claim that you did that
were deductible that may or may not have been forcing
you to spend hours upon hours at your public storage
unit digging through boxes you hoped and prayed you'd never
see again Well after the third solid week of having
your financial history poked and prodded like you've had to
turn your head and cough you uh might actually be
ready and willing to trade in those three letters of 00:01:35.13 --> [endTime] irs for rough one of those stds instead
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