“Cardinal Taking a Bow” – by Norma Wilson
I’ve told you I absolutely HATE tax time – the whole trying to make sense of my records, feeling overwhelmed, etc.
When I finished these and dumped them on our wonderful CPA around the 15th of January, I promised myself I would start a different way of keeping records so that I didn’t hate this time of year so much.
When I created spreadsheets to summarize our receipts in each category, I copied each of them, labeling them “Whatever Category – 2019”. I promised myself that I would take time at the end of each month, enter the relevant numbers into the spreadsheets, and then file the receipts under the appropriate tax category, rather than the month as I have always done.
I just finished entering the information for February – hence the pat on the head and bowing cardinal! :0)
If I can keep this up, at the end of the year I SHOULD be able to just total the categories on the spreadsheets, print them, and bag them up for the CPA.
I’m a bit embarrassed that I have moaned/griped/whined for years about this – never coming up with a better way to attack it until this year.
Someone should say something memorable, such as, “Better late than never….” don’t you think?
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