End Of Financial Year Pillows

'It's just that when I said 'show me the money'...I imagined more money.'

"How is the budget forecast looking?"

'Like it? I LOVED it! The narrative gripped me from the first sentence and didn't let go until the final, heart-stopping page! And the CHARACTERS! Without question, Harris, this is the finest year-end financial report you've ever written!'

"Our new information management system has just worked out where we wasted most money last year. . . It was on the new information management system."

I'm looking at your time sheet...clock watching, two hours a day?

Forms I cannot deal with / Forms I will not deal with

'Is it safe to come out? Are the auditors gone?'

"Good news! Accounting just upgraded our numbers from 'good' to 'really' good."

'I got a big refund on my income tax.'

'Why do I always get stuck with the inventory?'

"They say you're a miracle worker, so I'm wondering if you could part my sea of red ink?"

Publisher reading his Annual Accounts: "My favourite publication!"

IRS, 'I think we should audit this one, sir -- his signature looks shaky.'

'It's been an odd year.'

"I have been inputting garbage into my systems for 12 months, why is this spend analysis GARBAGE?!"

"Although technically it's a profit and loss statement, the narrative is admittedly rather one-sided."

"Another successful year!"

'I just asked to see the annual figures...'

'Profits were very good in the first three quarters, but then in the fourth quarter the Revenue found out about them.'

'First, I want you to get your dependents off my desk.'

Things-to-do-today: Daily workboxes piled up on desk.

'Sales are up so everyone is getting a bigger paycheck!'

Smiling businessman with rising profits

'These are the end of year figures recollected in tranquility.'

Look at it this way, you didn't have to pay all that money in tax, you'd go out and spend it anyway!

Bankers waiting for their annual bonus.

Tax relief

In basket-case.

'I should not that the cherry and whipped cream were an afterthought created by our graphics dept.'

'Quick! We need a bigger chart in here!'

"Worst case of month-end burnout I ever saw."

"So, we look to the fourth quarter as a time of healing."

21st century water cooler conversations.

"We're experienced an extraordinary amount of growth this year."

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