Star Wars, Accountant Style
30 01 10 - 16:28 Category: .
Saturday we get to wear whatever the hell we want. I wore my star wars shirt (see banner).
At one point one of my coworkers saw me and goes "You are part of the rebel alliance and a traitor! I have to take you away!" What follows is the email exchange we had several hours later. Pretty much the best email back and forth I've ever had at work. Ever.
Him: Where is the Rebel base!?
Me: No! My cubicle is peaceful! We have no weapons!
Him: Imagine the fixed asset listing for the death star. Ridiculous.
Me: Oh jeez… that’d be intense. Would stormtroopers be considered a fixed asset?
Him: I’d say inventory. They are definitely not a long term asset.
Me: Ah of course. That’d be a fun perpetual inventory system to maintain.
Him: You’d think that the Imperials would have just called the local IRS field office and asked for the mailing address for the Rebels. Seems like a whole lot easier than blowing up entire planets.
Me: Well it was probably Dantooine, which was just far too remote for an effective demonstration. I wouldn’t put it past the rebels to do some “creative accounting” in order to hide.
Him: I’m sure the intergalactic Arthur Anderson was involved.
Me: I wouldn’t go so far as to accuse them of fraud though. Can’t really blame them for gaming the system to beat the Empire can you?
Him: They probably just operated on a cash basis anyways. Don’t want The Man holding them down anyways.
Me: No real revenue to speak of anyway.
Him: Just a lot of related party transactions.
So they’re hiding them as accountants these days??? What happened to the Post Office?? Or do we have to worry about both now??? :)
ps. VERY entertaining!
Doug (Email) - 30-01-’10 19:57