It's about how well you finish
Sorry for skipping a couple of postings. For once, I really am beset by trials and tribulations and since no-one actually reads this I figured it wouldn't matter if I kept quiet.
It turns out that some people actually do read this so now I feel even more beset by trials.
I have a very nice group of auditors in at the moment (I mean it, like many FDs I started off with audit training - with KPMG up in Liverpool). Bizarrely in the world of accountancy, they are still called that.
Q: Why did the auditor cross the road?
A: Because he crossed it last year.
Boom boom.
Another favourite but I always use this against myself
Q: What does an accountant use as a contraceptive?
A: His personality
This is my frantic time of the year. The summer trustees' meeting looms large. I have endless sets of accounts to prepare with the aid of my trusty abacus as well as a bunch of tax comps. I have to drag long forgotten concepts from the depths of my soul (consolidation of unit trusts anyone?). So this would be the time of year when you wouldn't want commercial problems, or any big events or in fact anything else to happen at all.
Which rather begs the question of why I am competing in the Blenheim Triathlon this Saturday.
No, I haven't a clue either. Dragged along kicking and screaming by my training conscience (his name is Troels Henrikssen), we enjoyed a great final lake practice in scorching sunshine in North Oxford. No-one really wanted to get out, it was that nice. I even swam in a (moderately) straight line. Nothing can stop me - with the possible exception of the heavy rain now forecast for Saturday.
As previously mentioned, we have a fair contingent representing Blenheim Palace in the competition. I was amused to see an email from John (our CEO) explaining to a trustee that he was not competing as he was needed to run the event on the day! Don't worry, John, I'll cover for you next year!
We are trialling a new "Park then Pay" arrangement for this event - something our site is not well set up to do but is now essential for this event as a lot of the traffic comes in one mad early rush. If you do experience it, please let me know what you think.
We're wishing all competitors a great race, with the exception of Roger File my training partner (and our property director) who I wish to finish only a respectably small number of minutes ahead of me.
My main strategy for achieving this relatively modest goal is to get out of the water and up to transition ahead of him. Then I'll remove the handily-designed quick release front wheel from his bicycle.....
Just kidding, Roger. What I like about triathlon is that because you go off in waves 20 minutes apart, no-one watching has a clue what my time is. All I have to do is finish strongly and everyone will think I have posted a great time!
Which is roughly the way I approach these wretched accounts and the trustees' meeting. I am glad they cannot all see me now. I will sleep well when both things are over!
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It turns out that some people actually do read this so now I feel even more beset by trials.
I have a very nice group of auditors in at the moment (I mean it, like many FDs I started off with audit training - with KPMG up in Liverpool). Bizarrely in the world of accountancy, they are still called that.
Q: Why did the auditor cross the road?
A: Because he crossed it last year.
Boom boom.
Another favourite but I always use this against myself
Q: What does an accountant use as a contraceptive?
A: His personality
This is my frantic time of the year. The summer trustees' meeting looms large. I have endless sets of accounts to prepare with the aid of my trusty abacus as well as a bunch of tax comps. I have to drag long forgotten concepts from the depths of my soul (consolidation of unit trusts anyone?). So this would be the time of year when you wouldn't want commercial problems, or any big events or in fact anything else to happen at all.
Which rather begs the question of why I am competing in the Blenheim Triathlon this Saturday.
No, I haven't a clue either. Dragged along kicking and screaming by my training conscience (his name is Troels Henrikssen), we enjoyed a great final lake practice in scorching sunshine in North Oxford. No-one really wanted to get out, it was that nice. I even swam in a (moderately) straight line. Nothing can stop me - with the possible exception of the heavy rain now forecast for Saturday.
As previously mentioned, we have a fair contingent representing Blenheim Palace in the competition. I was amused to see an email from John (our CEO) explaining to a trustee that he was not competing as he was needed to run the event on the day! Don't worry, John, I'll cover for you next year!
We are trialling a new "Park then Pay" arrangement for this event - something our site is not well set up to do but is now essential for this event as a lot of the traffic comes in one mad early rush. If you do experience it, please let me know what you think.
We're wishing all competitors a great race, with the exception of Roger File my training partner (and our property director) who I wish to finish only a respectably small number of minutes ahead of me.
My main strategy for achieving this relatively modest goal is to get out of the water and up to transition ahead of him. Then I'll remove the handily-designed quick release front wheel from his bicycle.....
Just kidding, Roger. What I like about triathlon is that because you go off in waves 20 minutes apart, no-one watching has a clue what my time is. All I have to do is finish strongly and everyone will think I have posted a great time!
Which is roughly the way I approach these wretched accounts and the trustees' meeting. I am glad they cannot all see me now. I will sleep well when both things are over!
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