Accounting degree, CIMA qualified. Added ATT in recent years. Now working in education as a CFO. Previously worked in manufacturing, for both SME and international companies.
I have only had empty mail boxes on the first day of any job.
I refuse to spend time doing 'busy work' such as 'filing' emails that are already stored in a filing system - called the inbox.
I'm not working in practice - but we do have shared mailboxes for invoices / statements / queries etc.
At best we aim to colour code stuff.
The thought of a 'system' nagging me about an email would turn my job into production line work - not that there is anything inherently wrong with that - but it's not my way of working and I would be leaving.
I genuinely have no idea how, mathematically, one can calculate this entitlement in the real world. My software (new, education specific) certainly cannot do this.
The legislation seems to assume I have an (easily accessible) library of up to 104 weekly timesheets per person affected.
The staff this affects (music teachers etc) will have submitted various timesheets - but, typically, they would be one sheet per month.
They cannot get rid of this hateful and unworkable legislation soon enough.
How can it be that someone working 20 hours one week and none the next gets twice as much holiday as someone working 10 hours every week?
Do you remember the film Calendar Girls? Well, the following year we received a few christmas cards from our suppliers (manufacturers of various widgets) where the powers that be had obviously dragooned their workforce into copying the film.
We shuddered, and thanked our lucky stars that our bosses had not thought of this..
As a company we tended to send out big A3 sized useful calendars to key contacts. These were ordered in January, and were not cheap. We tended to go with a 'supercar' theme, as most of our customers were automotive.
It was probably the busiest our franking machine got when we sent those out in batches.
A good calendar, of course, remains in customer sight all year round.
I know this is an income tax thing, and I'm coming from a larger organisation view - but, I in my experience I've never had 'all' the receipts or invoices for a particular time period until, say, six months after the event?
There are always stragglers, suppliers who have incorrect emails for you, staff submitting expenses claims late etc etc.
Obviously there is a 'long tail' effect there - and the late stuff will also probably be chicken feed - but the idea of revisiting 'closed' periods and re-filing is surely stupid. (as others have said).
I know this is an income tax thing, and I'm coming from a larger organisation view - but, I in my experience I've never had 'all' the receipts or invoices for a particular time period until, say, six months after the event?
There are always stragglers, suppliers who have incorrect emails for you, staff submitting expenses claims late etc etc.
Obviously there is a 'long tail' effect there - and the late stuff will also probably be chicken feed - but the idea of revisiting 'closed' periods and re-filing is surely stupid. (as others have said).
I know this is an income tax thing, and I'm coming from a larger organisation view - but, I in my experience I've never had 'all' the receipts or invoices for a particular time period until, say, six months after the event?
There are always stragglers, suppliers who have incorrect emails for you, staff submitting expenses claims late etc etc.
Obviously there is a 'long tail' effect there - and the late stuff will also probably be chicken feed - but the idea of revisiting 'closed' periods and re-filing is surely stupid. (as others have said).
My answers
I don't really know what a 'clear' inbox means.
I have only had empty mail boxes on the first day of any job.
I refuse to spend time doing 'busy work' such as 'filing' emails that are already stored in a filing system - called the inbox.
I'm not working in practice - but we do have shared mailboxes for invoices / statements / queries etc.
At best we aim to colour code stuff.
The thought of a 'system' nagging me about an email would turn my job into production line work - not that there is anything inherently wrong with that - but it's not my way of working and I would be leaving.
I genuinely have no idea how, mathematically, one can calculate this entitlement in the real world. My software (new, education specific) certainly cannot do this.
The legislation seems to assume I have an (easily accessible) library of up to 104 weekly timesheets per person affected.
The staff this affects (music teachers etc) will have submitted various timesheets - but, typically, they would be one sheet per month.
They cannot get rid of this hateful and unworkable legislation soon enough.
How can it be that someone working 20 hours one week and none the next gets twice as much holiday as someone working 10 hours every week?
Now, I'm not uneducated (CIMA and ATT), but, given my day job is not compliance, I'm not sure where I would begin to undersand the rules if I was Sam.
Heaven help the unrepresented..
I just realised over Christmas why I wasn't as stressed as Christmases past:
My new job (ok, so a year and a half in) has an August, rather than December year end. So no pre Christmas panic and post Christmas workload.
Changing jobs/sectors (at 50) has really been life changing - I recommend it!
Do you remember the film Calendar Girls? Well, the following year we received a few christmas cards from our suppliers (manufacturers of various widgets) where the powers that be had obviously dragooned their workforce into copying the film.
We shuddered, and thanked our lucky stars that our bosses had not thought of this..
As a company we tended to send out big A3 sized useful calendars to key contacts. These were ordered in January, and were not cheap. We tended to go with a 'supercar' theme, as most of our customers were automotive.
It was probably the busiest our franking machine got when we sent those out in batches.
A good calendar, of course, remains in customer sight all year round.
Good article, thanks.
I am jealous, - seems the local bodies get another couple of months, compared to Education.
We all have an August year end, with audits being needed by 31 Dec.
I know this is an income tax thing, and I'm coming from a larger organisation view - but, I in my experience I've never had 'all' the receipts or invoices for a particular time period until, say, six months after the event?
There are always stragglers, suppliers who have incorrect emails for you, staff submitting expenses claims late etc etc.
Obviously there is a 'long tail' effect there - and the late stuff will also probably be chicken feed - but the idea of revisiting 'closed' periods and re-filing is surely stupid. (as others have said).
I know this is an income tax thing, and I'm coming from a larger organisation view - but, I in my experience I've never had 'all' the receipts or invoices for a particular time period until, say, six months after the event?
There are always stragglers, suppliers who have incorrect emails for you, staff submitting expenses claims late etc etc.
Obviously there is a 'long tail' effect there - and the late stuff will also probably be chicken feed - but the idea of revisiting 'closed' periods and re-filing is surely stupid. (as others have said).
I know this is an income tax thing, and I'm coming from a larger organisation view - but, I in my experience I've never had 'all' the receipts or invoices for a particular time period until, say, six months after the event?
There are always stragglers, suppliers who have incorrect emails for you, staff submitting expenses claims late etc etc.
Obviously there is a 'long tail' effect there - and the late stuff will also probably be chicken feed - but the idea of revisiting 'closed' periods and re-filing is surely stupid. (as others have said).