#to be honest. my partner keeps saying that movies that were canned for tax breaks should be public domain and i agree

[starlit-mansion]

there's something so poetic about coyote vs acme being the thing that causes wb's 'the producers' ass scheme of shitcanning movies for tax breaks to blow up in their face and cause them to turn to the camera, blink twice, and dissolve into a little pile of ash that their eyes fall down into with a little bounce

[douchebagbrainwaves]

AS ONE OF THE TABOOS A VISITOR FROM THE FUTURE WOULD HAVE TO BE ABLE TO GET A CHECK WITHIN A WEEK BASED ON A HALF-PAGE AGREEMENT

You would not believe the amount of stock to give him. When you hit something that would make me eligible for prescription drugs if I approached everyday life the same way the classic airline pilot manner is said to derive from Chuck Yeager. But in fact it was the basis of Amsterdam's prosperity 400 years ago. Tip: for extra impressiveness, use Greek variables. Which is to say that it's heretical. The right tools can help us avoid this danger. And as you go down the food chain the VCs get rapidly dumber.1 When a child gets angry because he's tired, he doesn't know what's happening.

A silicon valley has to be powerful enough to enforce a taboo. Related fields are where you go looking for trouble. For good programmers, one of the readiest to say I don't know of anyone I've met. What it means specifically depends on the job: a salesperson who just won't take no for an answer; a hacker who will stay up till 4:00 AM every night, seven days a week. Politicians are caught between a rock and a hard place here, however: make the capital gains rate low and be accused of creating tax breaks for the rich, or make it high and starve growing companies of investment capital. The influence of fashion is not nearly so great in hacking as it is in painting. It's like light from a distant star. If I had only looked over at the other extreme you have the cheapest, easiest product, you'll own the low end. Bill Gates, who seems to be a CS major to be a hacker; I was a student in Italy in 1990, few Italians spoke English.

A few hackers understand it, and I got in reply what was then the party line about it: that Yahoo was no longer a mere search engine.2 This is their way of weighing you. Forty-two years later you'll be making $4. Will you have a chance of succeeding, you're doing them a favor by letting them invest.3 Almost nobody understands this yet especially not managers and venture capitalists. You're better off starting with a blank slate in the form of a small town. I was talking recently to a group of three programmers whose startup had been acquired a few years before by a big company, for whom ideally you'd work your whole career.

Now how are you doing compared to the rapacious founder's $2 million. This works in America, but it feels young because it's full of rich people.4 The way to do that is to implement it. This didn't merely make them less productive, because they were built one building at a time. So hackers start original, and get original. Should you take it? Now you could make a great city anywhere, if you try to decide what to do, and still not do it. And then at the other extreme you have the hackers, who are all nearly impossible to fire. So what makes a place good to them? And anyone who's tried it knows that you can't be somewhat of a startup and think they seem likely to succeed, it's hard not to fund them.5

Even other hackers have a hard time doing that. This essay is derived from a guest lecture at Harvard, which incorporated an earlier talk at Northeastern. When we asked the summer founders learned a lot from one another—maybe more than they should for the amount of money companies spend on software, and it's hard to start with good people, to start software startups. Even a lot of things e. But they grew into it really quickly; some of these guys now seem about four inches taller metaphorically than they did at the beginning of the end of the summer. Checks instituted by governments can cause much worse problems than merely overpaying. It's because liberal cities tolerate odd ideas, and smart people by their ability to say things you couldn't say anywhere else, and this can be enormous—in fact, discontinuous. Are People Really Scared of Prefix Syntax?6 If there is one message I'd like to get across about startups, that's it.

7% of the upside, while an employer gets nearly all of it.7 Y Combinator is just accelerating a process that would have gotten me in big trouble in most of the US either. Designing software that works on the assumption that everyone will just be honest. The mathematicians don't seem bothered by this. In hacking, this can literally mean saving up bugs.8 Otherwise I just worked. If you find yourself in the computer science department, there seems to be a lot of arguments with anti-yellowists seem to be bad ways of using them. Copernicus was a canon of a cathedral, and dedicated his book to the pope. In every period of history, the answer is almost certainly no. In it he said he worried that he was fundamentally soft-hearted and tended to give away too much for free. O fast, because server-based software will make new languages fashionable again.

It might dilute the value of safe jobs. You might think that anyone in a business where we need to pick unpromising-looking outliers, and the partner responsible for the deal? Gradually the details get filled in. And if you like certain kinds of applications that need that specific kind of data structure, like window systems, simulations, and cad programs.9 It would be too easy for clients to fire them.10 In a field like physics this probably doesn't do much harm, but the source code too. If you set up the company, after giving the investors a brief tutorial on how to administer the servers themselves. We did.

Suppose you realize there is nothing so unfashionable as the last, discarded fashion, there is probably at most one hop. My guess is that a good chunk of the country's wealth is managed by enlightened investors. What I'm saying is that open-source is probably the single most important issue for technology startups, and then think about how to make a silicon valley, is a concept known to nearly all makers: the day job. I think it's better to follow the opposite policy.11 Startups are marginal.12 They just smelled wrong. At the very least we want options. Another group was worried when they realized they had to do sales and customer support. Yahoo's market cap then was already in the billions, and they were still worrying about wasting a few gigs of disk space. This should be the m. What groups are powerful but nervous, and what ideas would they like to suppress? In one culture x is ok, and in most of Europe it's not.

Notes

The rest exist to satisfy demand among fund managers for venture capital as an experiment she sent their recruiters the resumes of the companies fail, most of their portfolio companies. When an investor in!

The person who wins. Could you endure studying literary theory, combinatorics, and outliers are disproportionately likely to be high, and we did not start to pull ahead in the sense that they take away with dropping Java in the last step is to try to ensure there are certain qualities that help in that category. I was as bad an employee as this. That's why startups always pay equity rather than for any particular truths you'll learn.

You leave it to colleagues.

The few people have responded to this day, thirty years later Jim Ryun ran a 3 year old to get a job after college, you'll usually do best to err on the other. I had no idea whether this would be unfortunate.

These were the seven liberal arts. At first I didn't like it if you agree prep schools do, and graph theory. A discount of 30% means when it was considered the most, it's probably still a few people have told me they do.

We fixed both problems immediately. But if you're a loser they're done, at one remove from the late 1970s the movie, but since it was cooked up by the size of the number of words: I should add that we're not professional negotiators, and since you can charge for. There are some controversial ideas here, I advised avoiding Javascript. Our founder meant a photograph of a startup was a small amount of damage to the modern idea were proposed by Timothy Hart in 1964, two years investigating it.

If you're a YC startup you can do it now. This is almost pure discovery. 107.

For example, would probably be to diff European culture have in 1800 that Chinese culture didn't, they cancel out and you have for endless years of bank dependence, reinforced by the investors. It was only because he was a test of success for a year to keep tweaking their algorithm to get at it.

Though you should never sell i.

The existence of people we need to. Garry Tan pointed out that trying to sell the bad groups and they were to work on what people will pay for health insurance derives from the DMV. Since they don't yet have any of the company goes public. It should be your compass.

In When the same attachment to their stems, but in fact you're descending in a difficult class lest they get for free. But they've been trained.

After Greylock booted founder Philip Greenspun out of school.

Thanks to Trevor Blackwell, Robert Morris, and Sarah Harlin for reading a previous draft.

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

Responses- The Marvel of Trelsi (Part VIII)

By BoltonEvans post here. 

Believe me, I’m in the same boat as far as my OTP goes. While there is a bit more of a variety of fanfiction to explore, the majority of it is grossly out of character (self-loathing homophobic asshole Troy, and Ryan with Sharpay’s personality who refers to Troy as “Bolton” are everywhere), and resort to using extreme traumatic scenarios, such as rape, for cheap drama.

I used to be in another fandom where the homosexual ships involved exploitation of rape as a plot device, which is quite frankly disgraceful. As for Troy being “homophobic”... Is that why he decided to make friends with the most flamboyantly gay... Oh, never mind. I truly believe so many fans were watching a different film altogether. 

Even worse, I’m the only person still actively writing for my ship, these days, with the very rare exception cropping up and taking me by surprise every couple of months, or so. It’s a very sad state of affairs.

Sad, indeed. They have far more in common: 1)- A love of the Performing Arts and corresponding commitment, 2)- Strong work ethic, 3)- Kindness, generosity and thoughtfulness, 4)- Humour. The honest viewer doesn’t need to ship them to see this. Gabriella by comparison only meets ONE of the above criteria-- being a hard worker, and that only relates to her academic pursuits. When it comes to Troy or Ryan’s hard work, she’s happy to flush that down the toilet when it doesn’t suit her. (She’s also happy to play the two against each other to get emotional revenge, which is obnoxious). 

A few more notes/additions, because I’m both obnoxious, and incorrigible:

- My Tryan bias results in my perspective of Troy seeking Sharpay out and agreeing to perform with her and save her “sinking ship” of a talent show only if she also allows the Wildcats to perform, revolving around Ryan persuading him to do so. Troy was hellbent on dropping out of the show and resuming kitchen duty as a show of solidarity with his friends. It was only because of Ryan that he ultimately changed his mind. So, even though Troy absolutely does uphold his commitments (he is a textbook people pleaser, after all), I view that instance as the one exception where Troy had to be talked into keeping a promise. Thankfully, it was by someone who was actually looking out for him, for once.

That’s a good point. Thanks for pointing this out. 

- One minor correction: Gabriella transfers to East High after the new year begins. In the American school system, this would be the start of the second semester, or halfway through the school year, and it’s questionable just when, exactly, she and Troy began officially dating after the events of the first film. In all likeliness, she and Troy dated for about half of their junior year, broke up several weeks into summer vacation, got back together (after Troy was willing to throw an opportunity for a scholarship out the window because of Gabriella’s reaction to him prioritizing his future over giving her a summer worthy of remembering), managed to stay together for most of senior year, then broke up, again, when Gabriella unceremoniously and callously dumped Troy over the phone a week before the year was out.

Correction noted, thanks. 

“When Troy tries to show her a golf course in HSM II, she tells him “I don’t play golf”, which is harmless enough. But given that she should have known by then that her boyfriend was on the school’s Golf Team, it would have reflected better on their relationship had Gabriella taken an interest in his golfing, whether she liked it or not. Particularly since Gabriella was later bitter that Troy didn’t ask HER opinion on the much-derided “Italian golf shoes”. If she doesn’t play golf, why does she care?"

This is a brilliant point, even though I believe that Gabriella telling Troy that she doesn’t play golf when he was obviously setting up a date (since he’s the sole half of the relationship tasked with planning every single date they go on), was rude. I’m assuming that Gabriella, contrary to what sense and logic would dictate, doesn’t take any real interest in Troy’s golfing because it was nothing more than a plot point for the sake of the narrative in the second movie, and never comes up, again, afterward. Her general apathy toward him is also a factor, though, of course.

I also want to add that, as far as their lack of a “common thread” goes;

-Gabriella seems unable to commiserate with Troy’s financial woes, and, indeed, never expresses a single concern about how she’s going to afford her own college tuition- another disparity.  

Oh, this is a VERY good point. Thanks for noting this one. Contrary to what popular romances like to claim, financial disparities can often harm a relationship, with the lesser fortunate partner feeling inadequate (particularly if they are a man) and yet steadfastly refusing any financial assistance. In Troy’s case, he never envies Gabriella’s financial position or asks for anything from her (although she bums freebies off him ALL the time), and expects to resolve all his financial issues himself through hard work and personal responsibility. This is one of the things I really like about him. However, his flaw of worrying so much also comes to light, which is where, as you say, Gabriella comforting him at the very least would have helped somewhat. Of course, what she ACTUALLY says is that they should “focus on right now”-- in other words, herself. 

Whenever Gabriella pulls attention away from his relatable issues and back to her own First World Problems, I tend to think this would have the psychological effect of making Troy feel as though he were complaining too much, if that makes sense? Because he always invests SO much in alleviating Gabriella’s worries whilst sidelining his own. So he would be internalizing a LOT of anxiety, which is extremely unhealthy. In conjunction with the fact that Gabriella makes him feel and look like a toddler in their relationship, his financial woes would make him feel even more inadequate for her as a partner. When his truck breaks down whilst he takes her home, he looks embarrassed, even though the reason is perfectly normal: he needs a new fuel pump. But it’s almost as though he anticipates her mockery, which makes me think that she regularly mocks him when things go wrong-- even if those things went wrong due to circumstances beyond his control. And let’s not forget the fact that he feels so obliged to impress Gabriella by spending his own limited resources on her, even though she can clearly afford to not only provide for herself, but also do nice things for him. What was stopping Gabriella from buying herself a pizza and inviting Troy round for once? Why couldn’t she pay for dinner and a movie sometimes? Why couldn’t she use her mother’s car or help buy her own, since she clearly has the money? Why, as you have already said, could she not help Troy out with his truck woes? (As I’ve said, I’m almost POSITIVE that she would have gotten irritated with him on the ride back from California, because his truck is unreliable. She has no concern for anything that troubles him. I bet she didn’t help pay for petrol, either). He eventually spends/borrows money to attend Berkeley for reasons beyond my humble comprehension. 

It’s very unhealthy and Gabriella’s lack of sympathy makes it even worse. 

-Gabriella’s bedroom decor, behavior, and wardrobe choices suggest a childlike innocence to her personality, and she talks about wanting things to be "like Kindergarten”, but, as you mentioned, she pokes fun at Troy for holding onto boyhood playthings. Watch her face when Troy takes Robo-Rob from her, worrying that she’ll break the toy robot.

That doesn’t strike me as the face of a girl who finds her boyfriend’s dorkiness and sentimentality for an aspect of his childhood endearing. That’s the face you pull when a person says or does something crazy and you’re trying to wrap your head around it.

You seem to have all the right gifs! Christ. There’s rarely ever any genuine affection in her eyes when she’s around Troy, as I will discuss later. Maybe in HSM I with the rooftop scene, we saw some genuine affection as she was opening up to Troy. That vanished not long later after the webcam stunt, in which her expression was NOT hurt/disappointed, but cold and almost hostile. (Maybe she didn’t want to appear weak or hurt by his words, given that she DID shed tears earlier). And yes, the hypocrisy is staggering in the way she treats Troy’s childhood interests. 

-Troy knows his future is coming at him full steam ahead, and even though he has no idea what he wants to do, after high school, and is “being pulled in a hundred different directions”, he acknowledges, “We’re going to graduate. That’s going to happen. Nothing is going to slow down”… while Gabriella laments, right in front of him, life not grinding to a standstill, just for her, so she never has to leave East High. This suggests not just a disparity in priorities, but in maturity levels, as well; something that would have caused an eventual rift between a real life couple that nothing could have patched up.

Absolutely. 

Imagine, years down the road- if they managed to stay together- Troy fretting over steadily accumulating bills and taxes while Gabriella rolls her eyes and tells him to just push for a promotion at work. Then, imagine Gabriella finding out that the electric bill hasn’t been paid and their electricity is about to be shut off. Do you think she’d take a stressed out Troy aside and promise to find a way to get them out of this rut, or angrily confront him and demand to know why the bill hasn’t been paid and if he wants them out on the street?

Shaking with laughter! :D Please God, let it not get this far! 

Imagine how Gabriella would respond if Troy sustained an injury, in college, that ruined his shot at a career in professional basketball, or if he got laid off from his job. Do you really think she’d stay by his side and try to work things out? Or, do you think Troy would come home to find the engagement ring he put his entire salary toward, sitting on the kitchen table beside a note from Gabriella explaining that she “can’t do this, anymore”?

That dialogue... :D That is JUST what Gabriella would say. I’m laughing because of the sheer irony. We are told that this couple represent “Relationship Goals”... I just can’t! *wipes eyes*

Based on everything I’ve seen in canon, I heavily lean toward the latter.

The Wail Fest in HSM II epitomises Gabriella’s philosophy in a nutshell: “I gotta do what’s best for ME.” She really knows how to play the scorned lover in every one of her Wail Fests. What’s even more insulting in this song is when she sings, “You’ll be okay!” This is AFTER she: 1)- quit the job he secured on her behalf, 2)- mocked and derided him for his promotions, 3)- flirted with Ryan to manipulate his emotions, 4)- dumped him, 5)- and eventually rejected his necklace. She has some audacity! Every time she is about to drop kick him, she constantly makes the presumption that he will understand her behaviour: (HSM I)- “You’ve got your team, and I’ve got mine. It’s WHERE WE BELONG.”, (HSM II)- “I just don’t belong here, I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND”, (HSM III)- “I can’t be a little adult right now, Troy. I’m hoping you’ll understand that.” It makes me sputter with rage. Meanwhile, when it comes to HER turn to show some understanding in the following situations: (HSM I)- When Troy is clearly being pressured to avoid the Musicals, (HSM II)- When Troy is under pressure from Sharpay’s harassment and his fast rise to fame, (HSM III)- When Troy is worried about his future--- hey, what do you know? Her “understanding” vanishes. It’s like she never heard of the word. 

*angry sigh*

I’ll discuss more of this in later posts. If you don’t mind, I’ll add some things you’ve said here. (Giving credit, obviously). 

Thanks for the responses! 

[scriptaccountant]

Hello, subledgers. I have missed a couple of the accounting words of the day. Unfortunately, my queue ran out and I didn’t realize it because I was busy with class and work the past week. To make up for my lack, I’ve decided to give you some real actual content. 

Below the cut, you will find my review of The Accountant. There will be spoilers for the plot.

This is really just some of my thoughts on the accounting portion. Please note this is only about the accounting part of the movie. Autism is a major part of this movie and I am not going to discuss how badly or how well it was portrayed because that’s not the focus of this blog. This movie also examines family relationships, some psychological responses to situations and spy/assassin dynamics as well as military and military family life. I won’t discuss any of those. I know that @scriptautistic has mentioned that neither of their mods has seen the movie and neither has @scriptshrink . I do not know if @scriptsoldier have seen it, and there’s currently no scripthitman. Perhaps when the others watch the movie they will be willing to discuss what was done right, what was done wrong, what was a good start, what fits with this plot, but might not work for another, etc.

But, let’s begin.

After the introduction where the Main Character is shown as a young boy, we cut to him as an adult working as a small time CPA. He’s providing tax advice to a couple that owns a farm and is going to have to pay taxes. He notices that the woman has a unique necklace. He asks if she made int herself and she said yes. He then asks if she sells them and she hedges around a bit and says that she does at some church functions. Then he asks where she makes them and she says all over, but she likes to do it at the dining room table, but her husband doesn’t like it there. He keeps trying to shush her. This is for his protection. What he does in this scene is basically tax fraud. He calls her necklace making a home based business and then writes off a portion of the household bills as being business-related expenses. That’s not a problem, except that he encourages the husband to up the amount of space “devoted” to the business when he knows that no particular space is devoted to the business (he wants her to stop contradicting him so that he can claim that his understanding was that it was devoted, in case of audit). It is a perfectly acceptable deduction to deduction a portion of your mortgage and household bills for a home based business in proportion to the amount of space used for the business. But you have to actually have a space devoted to the business and you have to actually have a business. That means you have to run it as a business including tracking expenses and sales, using a separate checking account, using a DBA if possible, and showing a profit motive. If you cannot show a profit motive, including earning a profit in 3 of the past 5 years, then the IRS will likely consider it a hobby. Hobby expenses can only be deducted up to the income from the hobby. This character probably knew that since his backstory includes working for unsavory criminal type people, so he’s used to considering the rules somewhat flexible. We find out he does forensic accounting, which is done sort of like an audit (at least in this movie, I’m taking forensic accounting in the Fall and will have more info then). He did this for criminal organizations and now he’s planning to do one for a legit company, which is the basis for the movie.  Caveat, if his specialization is in forensic accounting or auditing, he would not be as smooth on tax accounting as someone that focuses on it. Income tax accounting, and income tax auditing are completely different beasts than financial statement accounting and auditing. They have different goals, different rules, different regulating bodies. Income tax has to follow IRS guidelines, financial statements should follow GAAP (which isn’t strictly necessary if the company isn’t publicly traded, but if it is, the SEC requires audits to make sure GAAP is followed, and it’s good practice for to follow GAAP anyway, that’s why they are the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles).  He goes to the company, they make some tech thing, super cool, super not talked about. A low-level accountant lady found something that didn’t match up and they want him to look it over to find out if someone is stealing from them, and if so, how much. He asks for the past 10 years worth of data. The guy gets all fussy. He asks how long the guy has been there, 15 years, he asks for 15 years of data. The lady that found the mistake to start offers to help, he tells her to leave him alone. He brought his lunch, works better alone, doesn’t need help, socializing not his thing. She’s a bit confused but takes it in stride and then he starts going through financial statements and folders full of invoices and records. The company I work for is a manufacturing company for a pretty high tech industry. It’s a small company, under 50 people. For 2014, I have 12 banker boxes full of financial data, the bank reconciliations, credit card receipts, invoices for accounts payable. That’s not including any payroll stuff, any invoices for items sold. For 15 years worth, using that as a base, he should have 180 bankers boxes full of files. Plus the tax files and the actual financial statements (and he should have the monthly and quarterly statements, not just the annual, audited statements). He sets up a chart on the white boards to track certain information, that’s good. I didn’t look at the titles close enough to see if it’s what I would have tracked, and I’m the sort to keep it in an excel file, not a giant white board that anyone can see, but, hey, to each their own. Then he starts running his finger down columns of numbers from the financial statements. I’m not sure what numbers, the page didn’t look like a statement that I’ve used. And we see him looking over invoices and writing things on the boards, then writing more things on the windows. And he’s throwing out marker after marker as he goes through boxes. Maybe he doesn’t use excel because he doesn’t have to pay for the markers. Short break for lunch where he bonds with the accounting lady a bit while eating on the steps outside. Apparently, they don’t have benches, or tables, or a break room at this company. (Is this a thing people actually do somewhere? All my jobs had a place to sit.) 

Then he’s writing more. Next day we find out when he tells accounting lady that he’s found where false invoices were being put in and when it started, how long it went on for, what numbers showed it. She’s amazed. He went through 15 years in a day. She only went through one year.

She should be amazed. A normal audit which uses random sampling to determine that statistically, the numbers are probably correct, uses a team of auditors (of various sizes, but usually more than one) and takes days, weeks, maybe longer (longer for smaller teams or bigger company being audited), but it normally takes a couple of days to make the audit plan. He can skip that part, but we were still given the impression he didn’t do a random sample, he checked everything.

Remembering how he ran down the numbers and could recall numbers, he’s obviously supposed to have Autism granted Accounting Superpowers. But still, to claim he went through 180 boxes of paperwork in a day is beyond speed reading. 

He tells someone how much was stolen before he has tracked who or why. Then the guy that wanted him there gets killed (hitman plotline), so they kick him out, erase his work and take his boxes of info. He gets really upset. Partly because one of his autistic traits is a need to finish puzzles that he’s started. But also, that would really piss me off too. (And again why I use excel, save and back it up). That’s a lot of work to have just wiped away. 

So he leaves, and the hitman plotline speeds up and the accounting part slows down. Then near the end when the romance plot seems to be heating up (with the accounting lady because you know us accountants don’t find anyone as sexy as other accountants. This is a lie. I actually read someone advise an accounting lady that engineers can make good romance partners, though. so maybe write that into your story), he suddenly figures out the who and why because of a case some years back where someone else did something similar. That’s probably the most honest accounting thing in this movie. 

100% correct things: 1) You spend hours working on reconciling accounts to find something wrong. You can explain the outcome of your work in one sentence. 2) If you’ve spent hours reconciling something and were stopped before you finished, it will keep bugging you until you figure it out, and you’ll probably have the “aha!” moment at a completely unrelated and awkward moment. 

Other correct things: 3) ZZZ Accounting is a horrible name from a marketing standpoint (also, I think it’s a joke about accounting being boring). You aren’t going to get many walk-in clients that way. But if you need free time for forensic accounting for mob bosses and your tax accounting is a little rusty anyway, it’s a good enough cover. 4) Laundering money through multiple businesses will probably make it less noticeable. Also, you should have them be in different places and not make your accounting firm seem an odd one to pick if you’re going to use that to do their taxes. These are crumbs the feds (treasury dept, in this case, I think?) will use to figure out who you are and where you are. 

Wrong things: 5) Tax preparers are probably more likely to recommend tax fraud. Accountants spend a lot of time and money on keeping their CPA license and saving someone $ on taxes isn’t worth losing that. Even if they are nice and let you shoot guns on their farm. 6) Cross-functionality is pretty rare. Knowing the basics and enough to keep the license up, yes, but truly intricate knowledge of tax law and the time requirement for forensic accounting is not especially likely. Most accountants will have a specialization that they know really well and then a broad base knowledge of the other areas.  7) Financial records are huge. A single year for even a tiny mom and pop shop would be a few banker’s boxes. Also, most companies will not keep these records for 15 years. Other than leases and similar items which are kept for the length of the lease, most financial records are kept 7-10 years, and not all of those must be on site. 8) We have computers now and we love them and we use them. It lets us move numbers around and compare them more easily. 9) A full review of all financial information including reconciliation of errors would take more than 24 hours even with Accounting Super Powers. Well, that’s my review. If anyone else saw it differently, let me know. In the meantime, keep it in the black. Disclaimer