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Authored by wayneborean on Jan 3, 2014 12:40:07 GMT
I just had the most amazing Nightmare. I'd dropped in to visit an old friend at work. We were talking, and while I was there we started to find maintenance orders that appeared to have never been billed. Some of them went back to before I'd started to work for the company in 1978... just think of how many hardware and software upgrades had occurred since! Wayne madhatter.ca
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Authored by notsigned in on Jan 4, 2014 19:26:30 GMT
I've seen similar when a database backup went bad. The company lost 6 months of accounts payable, this included consigners as well as wholesalers.
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Authored by wol on Jan 7, 2014 12:55:14 GMT
When I first started work, the company I worked for this was a known problem. We would receive bills from contractors, and they weren't always billed on to the client (this was a North Sea project management company).
So, when I got tasked with rewriting the accounts package, pretty much the first thing that went into the purchase ledger was "is this a subcontractor? If so which client is he working for?", and the subcontractor's invoice got dumped straight across into the sales ledger to be billed on. Plus the client invoice no got recorded against the subcontractor's invoice.
The accountant never told me how much money this recovered, but I got the impression it wasn't small beer ...
Cheers, Wol
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