CPA office procedure pt.1 Workpapers
The firm I was with in Washington had an odd way of doing things at times. I’ve shared this with folks in New Hampshire and they just find it amusing. Likewise, I’ll do the same with the items in New Hampshire that were “odd” compared to Washington. Here’s a Washington oddity:
Odd item #1: Everything had to be portrait orientation
I mean EVERYTHING. So if you had a document, say a statement from a brokerage, which was normally a landscape orientation, it needed to be changed to portrait. Did this involve some trick with photocopying? No, they wanted us to staple the left side of landscape papers to a portrait-oriented blank sheet then fold the additional portion (which exceeded the 8.5″ portrait width) folded over neatly.
Why, might you ask?
The reviewers didn’t want to have to turn the file or their heads to look at the workpapers. *sigh*