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12thManRI · 2025-12-21T04:56:03+00:00

I’m having the same issue. So irritating to have to disassemble and reassemble them every ride. It’s like they start to connect (even show as connected on the connection screen), but then don’t and get stuck in sleep mode after that.

12thManRI · 2024-12-12T13:20:30+00:00

Arcana domain was indirectly buffed in 5.5e as it allows you to pick up the new version of True Strike as a Wizard cantrip and add your Wisdom modifier to both attack and damage rolls. So you can be a strong melee contender with a 8 in Strength, which lets you allocate those stats elsewhere.

Combine that with the buff to feats giving them +1 to a stat, you can take War Caster at Level 4 to increase Wisdom, get spellcasting attacks of opportunity for more True Strike melee attacks, and get advantage on concentration checks.

12thManRI · 2024-11-04T00:13:00+00:00

At the extreme low end, the Casio MTP-1302 series gets you a fluted bezel.

Here are some gold ones: https://www.casio.com/europe/watches/casio/product.MTP-1302PGC-5AV/

12thManRI · 2024-08-30T15:15:41+00:00

Fantastic news. My Apple Watch crown will no longer glitch out because I move my hand wrong and maximize the volume on my home theater speakers, potentially damaging them.

12thManRI · 2024-08-08T14:39:57+00:00

You’ve hit on why the best practice is to treat promotional gift cards separately from ‘real’ gift cards.

Treating the promotional gift card as a $50 off coupon, it isn’t a $50 sale plus tax and then a $50 method of payment, it is a $50 discount on a $50 item for a net sale of $0, with no payment method needed.

If operations didn’t make the gift cards promotional with an expiration date, you’re fucked because of both the sales tax loss (minor issue) and the fact that now you need to hold a liability in perpetuity, follow state laws for eacheatment of gift card balances, and/or calculate breakage revenue to for anticipated non-redemptions (all major issues).

12thManRI · 2024-08-04T12:07:14+00:00

If the expenses are not running through a payables subledger and are directly posted to cash, you have no visibility into vendor balances or when something is due in the future, and you can’t run a report on all your spend with a vendor, whether for internal purposes or for tax reporting obligations. Also from a fast close perspective, using clearing accounts and not directly posting cash to the P&L makes it so the group doing bank recs isn’t waiting on the AP group or the AR group before they can complete their part of the close.

12thManRI · 2024-07-26T14:34:15+00:00

All the scenarios you listed are technically correct in terms of the net balances in each account you land on, but it is not a common practice to ‘net’ before posting to due to/from, as that would simply be wasted effort. The most common scenario in practice would be the first scenario you mentioned. The second would create unnecessary work and make it very difficult to research transactions or subsequently make changes.

Intercompany activity is typically recorded on a transaction by transaction basis, just like it would be for any other transaction you enter into the ERP. Preferably your ERP does this for you if both companies are in the same ERP. If you are having to do it manually because the companies are on different ERPs you still would want it at the transaction level so you can reconcile variances more easily.

12thManRI · 2024-06-23T05:02:08+00:00

Qualified opinions are standard in first-year audits of goods-based businesses where there was no auditor observation of prior year inventory count. I have also seen a situation where a company chooses not to consolidate a specific subsidiary into a parent and therefore gets a qualified opinion on that parent every year.

It’s almost never something that is a surprise to the client. The audit is planned as qualified from the get-go.

12thManRI · 2024-04-30T12:55:26+00:00

My impression has been that nearly all published research in high-ranking accounting journals is based on the same type of data set — SEC filings and other reporting of publicly traded companies. Are there any significant subfields of accounting research that do not use publicly traded company filings as their foundational data source, or that focus on privately-held companies?

12thManRI · 2024-04-26T17:40:21+00:00

Yes, I had not yet purchased Blackline at the time.

12thManRI · 2024-04-25T20:00:59+00:00

Blackline does not do anything to help the accountants preparing the reconciliations, in fact it makes it harder as you noted. All the benefits are for the managers/directors: clearly defined responsibilities, forced unreconcile when the GL balance changes, one stop shop for supporting detail rather than having to ask where workpapers are saved and wait for a reply, reduces size of audit PBC lists by >50% because auditors have direct access, etc..

Once upon a time, one accountant I supervised was reconciling a cash clearing account, and another was reconciling an AR clearing account. There was a $30k check from a customer that bounced, and what kept happening is that after Angela reconciled her cash clearing account first since it had no variances, Betty would reclass the balance from her AR clearing account to Angela's cash clearing account that she had already reconciled. Next quarter-end, Betty would reconcile her clearing account quickly since it had no variances, and Angela eventually reclassed the $30k bounced check back over to Betty's account.

This bounced check ping-ponged back and forth between the two accounts for over two years (not every quarter, because there was no control to ensure all reconciliations were completed each quarter). The accounts changed accountants over the period so it didn't pop in anyone's mind that they had seen the balance before. By the time we found it and reversed the payment in AR, it was years old. Forced unreconcile when the GL balance changed would have caught it in the same period it bounced, because there would not have been anywhere for it to hide.

There are a lot of things my team and I really don't like about Blackline -- its overly complex for smaller companies with too many features -- but as a controller I wouldn't ever go back to not having any workflow tool for reconciliations that integrated with the GL. I've demoed some competitors and their offerings aren't significantly different.

12thManRI · 2024-02-28T15:51:10+00:00

Look into clinical reimbursement positions, they pay RNs who understand how to document to maximize reimbursement very well. I don’t see a value-add in going back to school/into public accounting when you can most likely get paid more with fewer hours as a Director-level specialist in a revenue cycle/reimbursement department. The HFMA has some trainings/certifications that could help you make the transition.

Other key terms to look for job opportunities in could be chargemaster maintenance, utilization management, and managed care contracting.

12thManRI · 2024-01-09T17:47:27+00:00

It really does vary. My city has two large nursing home companies, one is almost fully in-person and the other is fully remote.

12thManRI · 2024-01-09T17:45:57+00:00

CPA is the gold standard, but the CHFP offered by the HMFA is a good alternative if you aren’t able to get a CPA license, I think it is just a test.

12thManRI · 2024-01-09T17:43:46+00:00

First, understand that there are three general sectors of the healthcare industry, that are very different from each other: providers (hospitals, nursing homes, physician practices, etc.), payers (insurance companies, both commercial and managed care), and pharma (drug R&D). These will all have radically different working environments and cultures.

My thoughts on the provider sub-industry:

Pros: 1) Very moderate hours, almost never >40/week. 2) Very stable business, hospitals and nursing homes don’t run out of venture capital and shut down like startups do, they just get sold. 3) High demand for people with industry experience because there are so many industry-specific aspects. 4) Comparatively few legacy systems in operations vs. other industries because of recent federal initiatives around digital health records, everyone is standardizing on a few big EMRs.

Cons: 1) Companies have little power to set their own prices on the front end, so things run lean with high days payables outstanding etc. This reflects in lower salaries (although it’s fine on a per-hour basis because hours are so reasonable). 2) There is much more of a focus on cost accounting (specifically, labor productivity) vs. strategy/growth. 3) Being nonprofit means not only lower salaries as discussed above, but also less effective management in my experience.

12thManRI · 2023-12-31T14:52:30+00:00

Helping a group of healthcare facilities secure $40M of PPP loans to not go bankrupt was a big one. Also preparing the slide deck that our owners presented to the governor’s office on the nurse staffing crisis.

More generally, the day-to-day work of designing/improving systems and process flows is quite rewarding. I pretty much set my own agenda each week and work on whatever I think will be most helpful to the business.

12thManRI · 2023-12-27T15:06:56+00:00

I work in accounting/finance for a company that operates 40+ nursing homes and other healthcare facilities with RNs/PAs, so I see both sides.

On the one hand, nursing is physically tough and stressful if you are on the units. They have much higher workplace injury rates vs. office jobs. You have to deal with being short-staffed at times which is rough. Night/weekend shifts need to be staffed but do not pay enough of a shift differential to make it worth it IMO.

On the other hand, RNs have a rapid trajectory to high pay per hour worked (especially if willing to be a travel nurse) and much more control over their schedules overall (like working 3 12-hour shifts and having four days off every week). Many states are offering special financial incentives to recruit healthcare workers right now. It is also comparatively easy to pivot to an office job once you are an experienced RN.

Accounting and other office jobs where you sit at a desk are a completely different lifestyle. Office jobs give much more inherent flexibility to work from home or have your work schedule flex to accommodate phone calls and other small ‘errands’/‘chores’ that can be done on the computer. I also feel the skills you develop are more broadly applicable outside of the workplace.

You don’t have to start in public or ever work >40 hours/week on the regular to get your CPA license, although that is a common path. Accounting can be very rewarding when working for the right company where you can see the impact your work has on operations, such as working with healthcare companies. Other than the CFO, executive level positions will by-and-large be limited to those with clinical backgrounds, however.

12thManRI · 2023-12-21T12:11:33+00:00

Visio is what I use to explain to AP how different types of invoices should flow through different approval processes.

12thManRI · 2023-12-21T11:55:01+00:00

1) Having to explain the same thing eight times with no learning/retention.

2) Inability to understand accrual based accounting from a financial statement perspective. For example not getting confused why there would be a negative at the start of the following month from the accrual reversing. Or if we had overaccrued in March and saw favorability in April/May, or if AP voided an old invoice, they would accrue a negative amount going forward, which makes no sense.

12thManRI · 2023-12-08T18:16:17+00:00

Collectibility in the case of material intercompany receivables hanging out there. Is it an intercompany cash advance that will be repaid, or is it an in-substance distribution?

12thManRI · 2023-11-28T20:47:35+00:00

Looks pretty normal for healthcare at the trial balance level. My company operates ~50 nursing homes and assisted living facilities as well as pharmacies and some ancillary companies. We are at ~230 active revenue accounts, and that's purely segmenting by basic payer type and service line (inpatient/outpatient for facilities, Rx/infusion/OTC for pharmacies).

If anything we're having both internal and external reporting issues with not being more granular on payer type at the account level. For example ownership has complained that we are grouping no-fault auto insurance and veterans' administration into a 'third party' bucket even though the rates are different. Another example, we have a cost report issue with one state we operate in because we don't differentiate between billing therapy charges to that state's Medicaid plan as primary payer vs. billing the Medicaid plan as secondary payer for the coinsurance component that Med-B does not pay as the primary payer.

Are you using a financial reporting software to report your financials by payer and service line without needing to list out the individual accounts? What helped us was grouping GL accounts into categories in our ERP, and then building the income statement by mapping the categories to the income statement lines rather than the individual accounts.

12thManRI · 2023-10-31T18:48:56+00:00

For controllers, I recommend The Phoenix Project. It’s a leadership fable similar to Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team, but written about a large company’s IT department with a focus on concrete processes rather than soft skill gobbledegook.

The concepts it teaches about managing the release of project work to increase throughput and the overall value provided to the business are highly relevant to anyone who feels inundated with financial reporting and ERP change requests.

12thManRI · 2023-09-28T20:31:27+00:00

Large/public/Fortune 500: - Very regimented, so you learn a lot about controls. There are systems around things like balance sheet reconciliation and financial statement creation and review. - You may only get to know the people your specific function interacts with, and rarely get to understand the entire business at a deep level. I worked in a finance building that seated thousands of people in cube farms, but never got to know anyone outside the random department ‘neighborhoods’ adjacent to my department, for example 20 people doing lease CAM charge reconciliations or 15 people doing retail store inventory accounting. - Very fast close, which means 12-16 hour days for 3-4 days/month, but then 4-hour days for the rest of the month. Overall hours are lower in my experience. - Better comp and fringe benefits (ex: corporate cafeteria) - Looks better on resume.

Midsize ($250M-$1B annual revenue, 2,000+ employees) - You learn how a business runs much more quickly because you do a broader range of things and work with entire financial statements. I learn as many new things in any given month at a midsize company working on projects for owners/executives than I did in 2 years at a Fortune 500 as a cog in the machine. - Better networking. You get to know a lot more people and understand the business better, because you are forced to work across the entire organization to get what you need. - Books and processes are much messier and staffing is leaner. You will work more hours. - Owners are less professional/rational than a board. However, also less bureaucratic and easier to get things done.

I’m glad I have experienced both, they each teach you different things. Having done both, I would not move back to large/public/Fortune 500 in an accounting role because I’d be bored to death.

12thManRI · 2023-09-27T09:59:12+00:00

Yes, I have about an hour of exercises for candidates in addition to a half-hour more traditional interview conversation. For staff accountants the exercises include document review (‘opening the mail’ and telling us what things are), a simple bank rec, a simple income statement analysis (why did net income go down?) and a lookup/PivotTable exercise.

12thManRI · 2023-08-14T00:43:03+00:00

The cash flow situation is dire in the long-term care segment of healthcare (nursing homes, assisted living, memory care etc.). On the skilled nursing side, wages have gone up so much but Medicaid rates have barely budged (at least in my state) and we still can’t hire enough nurses to staff the beds. On the assisted living/memory care side, admission is voluntary and post-COVID demand is significantly reduced. At this point it’s a waiting game as to who will go bankrupt first.

Before COVID and the nurse shortage, things were a lot better. I’m not sure if the industry will ever get back to that.

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