Yesterday I was off work, sick with a stomach bug. I thought it would have been fairly quiet at work, but instead I was greeted with 41 e-mails on my return, about 35 of which were actionable e-mails. Whilst trying to wade through these e-mails, the 41 e-mails of the current day were also arriving... shew... by the end of the day I was exhausted trying to keep up with everyone's demands. None of these were what I would term "my work". Oh, they were my work in the sense that I had to deal with them as they are my responsibility or the responsibility of my co-workers who are on leave, but they were not the tasks I had planned for the day or the things that I wanted to do that would actually add some value.
The tasks were, amongst others :- creating cash accounts on the system, changing general ledger configuration, assisting someone with preventing segregation of duties issues, unblocking accounts, following up on payments, authorising payments, confirming vendor details, arranging training details, assisting in putting together an advert to advertise a vacant position, giving internal audit their information so they could audit, changing customer details, visiting HR, filling in audit requests for the auditors of our customers, giving trade references, reading information supplied by HR...
And that is what I call "ADMIN".
So, now you know... a CA does not just play around with numbers all day!! If only we did!!!
The tasks that I would have prefered to have done today would be to test some new reports in our Quality Assurance Environment, complete one or two of my Standard Operating Procedures that I was drafting and meet with staff to begin implementing them.
But tomorrow is another day...
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