NT-Disappointed with Clients Principals

[ChEAr$]

debit/credit jokes?

agghh! Just don't tell the one about the retiring accountant and the secret of his success discovered the next day in his office safe.
Or... the retiring ship's captain who every morning opened the ship's safe, took out a piece of paper read it, nodded pensively shook his head as if to say "okaY" then replaced it and locked the safe.
Morning after retirement the first mate, now the captain, hurried to the safe and discovered the old captain's success secret. The little well worn scrap of paper had written on it:
"port is left' starboard is right."

Oh, the accountant? His little piece of paper had" "debits to the door; credits to the window."

I'm done now.

[JohnH]

Ah yes, Chemistry jokes.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."

[RitaB]

I guess you had to be there

I've always thought that people who didn't laugh at my debit and credit jokes were just too dull. And I believe I could write a book on all the depreciation jokes about straight-line vs MACRS. Just thinking about them makes me laugh so hard it brings tears to my eyes.

My child taking Chemistry comes home Friday: "Mom, I would tell you a good Chemistry joke, but they're Argon."

[JohnH]

I've always thought that people who didn't laugh at my debit and credit jokes were just too dull. And I believe I could write a book on all the depreciation jokes about straight-line vs MACRS. Just thinking about them makes me laugh so hard it brings tears to my eyes.

[ChEAr$]

Monday morning reply.

Sorry - forgot to quote. I was laughing at Burke's quote.

and in reading it now it isn't all that funny but it hit home and made me laugh!

And who said acco\untants don't have a sense of humor? grin

[JG EA]

Maybe just because it's Friday night and I'm tired, but please tell me the humor of
this.

Monday morning reply.

Sorry - forgot to quote. I was laughing at Burke's quote.

Like some others on this board (I assume these businesses are Scorps or ptrships?) I made the decision not to prepare any more of this type return unless I did the bookkeeping. Since I did not want to do the bookkeeping, that solved my problem

and in reading it now it isn't all that funny but it hit home and made me laugh!

[ChEAr$]

Ha! Ha! Ha!

Maybe just because it's Friday night and I'm tired, but please tell me the humor of
this.

[JG EA]

Like some others on this board (I assume these businesses are Scorps or ptrships?) I made the decision not to prepare any more of this type return unless I did the bookkeeping. Since I did not want to do the bookkeeping, that solved my problem.

Ha! Ha! Ha!

[ChEAr$]

Like some others on this board (I assume these businesses are Scorps or ptrships?) I made the decision not to prepare any more of this type return unless I did the bookkeeping. Since I did not want to do the bookkeeping, that solved my problem.

Not preparing an entity return unless I do the numbers monthly, quarterly, is exactly my stance now too, Burke.

[Burke]

In the mail that day was letter from same client informing me that he was gonna save money by having one of his office staff prepare his monthly wotk now but he would still need me to do 3 biz tax returns AND his personal return - I really felt USED! Now I'll have to decide IF I wish to continue to prepare retruns for this guy!

Like some others on this board (I assume these businesses are Scorps or ptrships?) I made the decision not to prepare any more of this type return unless I did the bookkeeping. Since I did not want to do the bookkeeping, that solved my problem.

[Lion]

Qb

I accept credit cards via QB, pretty cheap if a ProAdvisor, even though I key in the numbers and don't have a swiper. Now, I have a swiper for my iPhone that was free from QB and works with my same Intuit merchant account.

[luke]

SPANEL - that smart phone app "sound too good to be true"? I accept CC/debit card payments and have to jump thru all kinds of hoops just to be ABLE to process the cards (questionnaire about office procedures etc) - additional fees if card holder is getting "rewards" on use of his card etc more fees for "keying" info instead of swiping - I may have to upgrade to a "real" phone and give this a try! Thanks for the info!

[luke]

Thanks

Thanks Harlan - thats why I use this forum to vent sometimes - I let these situations "settle" down for a few days and THEN will write my "thanks but NO thanks" letter! (this idiot left me once before a few years ago and then BEGGED me to take him back..... as my attorney always says, "No good deed goes unpunished"!

[JG EA]

So now you should send him a bill for $50 for reviewing the IRS notice.

Maybe he will get confused again and send you $500.

After he pays you and pays the IRS, he is STILL $490 ahead.

Good idea, but I think I should charge more. The next discussion we had right after the above was that he should get a lawyer like he saw on TV so he wouldn't have to pay such high taxes. So, maybe I'll say what Rita said instead.

[spanel]

Or is it just my imagination. Never fails each year I have this client who is sorry again for being unorganized with their business and promise to be organized the next year (again). Their tax return was quite a bit heavier this year like at least twice the weight so I charged them a little extra and their response was first WHAT!. Then they calm down when I saved them income taxes on about 10 different 1099-C from CC’s. So they show up on Oct 17th and once again “I forgot my check book” (and to answer you question pay me cash, they told me they didn’t have it if you can believe that and I don’t take CC’s or debits C’s). Well I went ahead and e-filed their return and I still have not gotten paid. I had a new client come in during the summer and she forgot her check book and by golly she went home and mailed me a check the same day.

But it’s just not this case, I am seeing more and more clients irresponsible especially some of those that have fell on hard times (as if its my fault) and I have no trouble working with those people but “when those people confuse my kindness for what they believe is a weakness I have, now it becomes a different story”

AZ-Tax.. Do you own a smartphone? If so, Download a free app called Square. They will send you a free CC reader and it cost around 3% to run a CC. Never not get paid again!

Chris