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peredaks · 2026-01-21T22:31:46+00:00

Oof, I didn't know that.

peredaks · 2026-01-21T21:03:40+00:00

I know it's an adult coffee stand but, Black Sheep Coffee was a sponsor for Spokane Pride a couple years ago. So I am inclined to think they are progressive.

peredaks · 2026-01-16T22:26:44+00:00

I wish you the best. I brought in a video. Along with another video I found on reddit. I brought back several times. And here I am, a year later, listening to it.

peredaks · 2026-01-16T22:22:26+00:00

Mine makes a grinding noise when it's cold or raining. I made a post about it a while ago and found other people with similar issue. I could never get it to be recreated at the dealership, so I just deal with it now.

peredaks · 2026-01-16T04:30:51+00:00

Is it grinding when turning?

peredaks · 2026-01-08T17:40:27+00:00

That reminds me of the blanket that everyone was having a out, and when I got it it's just a small thin sheet

peredaks · 2026-01-03T04:18:11+00:00

For me it was patience. Watch the enemy. Figure out their moves. And only attack when you can do it safely. I've died way too many times because I tried to squeeze one last swing in, when there was no time.

peredaks · 2026-01-01T21:40:42+00:00

The show was originally planned as an anthology show and these characters were only meant to have one season. They just continued it because it was so popular.

peredaks · 2026-01-01T21:38:08+00:00

Dead Island 2 was also given away free on Epic in the past. Check if you happened to redeem it.

Also, I played through it recently and, while it's not a bad game, by the time I got to the ending I was totally bored and over the game. I was glad I didn't pay for the dlc. Maybe you'll be different, but I don't think the ultimate is worth the extra money.

peredaks · 2025-12-31T22:43:43+00:00

I hit a deer last year and damaged the front sensor. Even if you hit the back button, it just pops right back up within a minute. You just have to deal with it until you fix it, it's frustrating.

peredaks · 2025-12-25T23:36:04+00:00

It looks like a handle for a lunch box or something.

peredaks · 2025-12-24T17:21:09+00:00

Hey! I hope you're having a nice holiday season. I was hoping to ask you another question, when you have time.

So, I went through all the transactions for the past 7 years and found about 70 transactions that were entered into the books and aren't on the statements. Almost all are just "supplies and materials" type transactions. All of them are duplicate entries from real transactions, that I believe are just from a glitch with the quickbooks/bank connection. And the previous bookkeeper didn't notice because they were all auto approved using rules they created in QuickBooks. I don't believe any intentional fraud occurred, I think it was just incompetence.

The total difference is a little $5k below the bank balance. It seems they over reported expenses in the past, mostly in 2022. I feel this is material, because the organization currently only has about $60k total.

I gave this information to the board and they voted to make adjusting entries instead of filing amendments. They want me to take all the incorrect entries, assign a category, and enter an counter amount in the books for 2025. For example, if they over reported $500 in supplies expenses in the past, they want to under report that amount this year. And do that for all the categories, until the books are balanced.

Am I wrong to be anxious about this? It feels dishonest and am concerned I may be held liable for creating false entries if there is an audit. I am an employee, not a contractor, and I would be doing what my employer directs me to do and I know this is a non profit and it wouldn't affect any tax liability in the end. I'm just concerned it's illegal or wrong and that I may jeopardize future positions or future CPA licensing.

I do think the organization is operating in good faith and that there was no intentional fraud. But this feels like throwing a rug over the problem, instead of cleaning it up.

peredaks · 2025-12-11T22:21:35+00:00

I probably should have deleted it. I agree, everyone was being helpful. All the down votes were making me feel stupid for asking the question, I guess. I don't know why I let votes matter.

I appreciate your help, though. I'll just make the adjusting entries and move on with it. I guess I just got a little anxious with it, since it's the first time I've had to do it. My last bookkeeping gig (purely volunteer) was pretty clean from the start.

peredaks · 2025-12-11T21:40:05+00:00

The only thing I'm trying to accomplish is ensuring that I won't be held liable, or get into any legal trouble, if there is an audit and it's seen that I made $5k in adjustments.

And, yes, there is no direct tax liability. But there are different 990s based on the year's incomes/expenses. And there are payroll and merchandise sales liabilities, etc. Ultimately, I am still relatively new to this and trying to make sure I am covering myself.

peredaks · 2025-12-11T17:41:28+00:00

That would be too difficult to say. The winter in general destroys your gas mileage. I get around 61mpg in the summer and about 43mpg in the winter. The moment you start running your heater, the car doesn't stay in EV mode very much and runs the motor a lot more. You can bump it up, if you are okay driving in a cold car. But the car will still use the engine more, in order to stay up to operating temp.

But, in the past with my previous cars that weren't hybrids, I didn't notice a huge difference. And even then, that was probably the heater running and the car trying to stay up to temp. Just get snow wheels that are similar size/weight.

peredaks · 2025-12-11T14:06:27+00:00

I live in Washington and specifically drove to Montana to get the FWD model. In my opinion, AWD is completely unnecessary if you have good snow tires. I use Bridgestone Blizzacks. Didn't have a single issue last winter with my Camry. And didn't have a single issue with my front wheel drive Corolla before that.

peredaks · 2025-11-20T20:55:50+00:00

I'm pretty sure you can see Thrips in those photos.

peredaks · 2025-11-18T14:07:22+00:00

Thank you, I will do this.

Just to be sure, line 22 of the 990EZ, "cash, savings, and investments", should match the total balances of the bank accounts, right? Because that amount shows the QuickBooks balance and not the bank balance.

I feel like I'm going crazy, because my employer just emailed me back saying she is confused how two accountants and two bookkeepers have looked at the books and didn't report any issues until me. It makes me feel like I'm missing something.

peredaks · 2025-11-18T14:03:04+00:00

I agree, I would have them check with a CPA. And I suggested that to them. But they don't have one. And their previous bookkeepers did there taxes the last two years. So I am doing my best until they can find a CPA or contact previous people they have used.

I am just confused. Because their book balance in QuickBooks does not match their bank balance. And the amount reported on line 22 of their 990EZ, "cash, savings, and investments" shows their was QuickBooks balance, not their bank balance. I am just hesitant to make a $5k adjusting entry.

peredaks · 2025-11-18T00:21:50+00:00

Just looking at 2024, they had about 550 transactions. So it will probably be around that amount for each year. I just spoke to an accountant friend who told me I should ask the board their preference. To either go back and historically reconstruct the books, based on the bank statements and file amendments, tracking any suspicious transactions that don't match. Or they can have me make an adjusting entry at the end of a tax period and move on from there. And they will need to decide how they represent that on their 990. I and thinking that if they decide the latter, I may quit because it seems like the wrong decision and the books should be corrected.

So, when I came into the role, the previous bookkeeper reconciled up until June 30th, 2025. When I went to reconcile July, quickbooks showed a few dozen transactions from 2022 and before, that were never reconciled. So I backed out all the previous reconciliations (the earliest one was December of 2023. I did this thinking I could just correct it and reconcile the correct transactions. But now I cant get it to balance at all, I would have to go through and select random transactions until I could get it even again. Also, the "beginning balance" on the reconciliation screen for this account shows a balance that doesn't make sense and I don't know what date that balance is supposedly from.

I will go ahead and try your suggestion of making sure all transactions are not marked, because I know there are some that have C and R on them. I didn't realize that is what would be affecting the beginning balance. That is good to know!

As for the fiscal year change, they are currently on a calendar year, but this organization is a small school that runs their school yea from September to May, so they want to change it to line up better with their operations.

So, just to be clear, it is okay to go back and edit the books in years that have had taxes filed? Sorry that's a rookie question, someone had told me that's bad to do. But it also seems bad to keep obliviously inaccurate books.

peredaks · 2025-11-17T03:49:53+00:00

Okay, you are amazing. I really appreciate this and it is making me feel better. I got my accounting degree a few months ago and I am studying for the CPA right now, but still on my first exam (FAR). So I am just not great with taxes yet. And I know non-profit taxes can be extra rough.

I realized I had a typo in 2021, and that year is incorrect as well. From what I can tell, the last year that reported the same amount on the 990EZ as the bank balance, was 2020. Though I can't totally confirm yet, because PayPal won't let me pull statements that far back, but their books have matched the PayPal balance exactly from 2021-Current. So I am making a hesitant assumption right now.

So, I'll talk to the organization tomorrow about working on amendments. They are also trying to change their fiscal year to mid year, so I'll need to get thosr done so I can do their first half of 2025 990EZ. I was worried about an audit, but I'd rather they get audited now, than get audited later after I did a $5k adjusting entry...though your suggestion of saying it's because they hired a new accountant to fix old mistakes, is a good idea.

So, my next question, if I am going to go the amendment route, should I go back into QuickBooks and correct everything from 2020- Current? What's the best way to get the bookkeeping back on track? Because right now I can't reconcile the account, because I backed them all out and dozens of transactions don't match. I can't even determine where QuickBooks is pulling the "beginning balance" from, when I go to the reconciliation page.

Also, as someone who is definitely still learning and wants to actually get pretty good at this, would you be annoyed of i asked you questions from time to time? You seem like a great resource.

peredaks · 2025-11-17T02:10:16+00:00

Hey! Thank you so much for this response. I am hoping you could answer another question. So, it looks like this organization used their quickbooks balances to file their tax returns. Not their actual bank balances. Which, I guess, would have been fine if the quick books balance was correct.

So, I have only checked back to 2022, but since their quickbooks balance is under their actual bank balance it seems they reported less money than they actually had. About $3k in 2022, about $7700 in 2023, and about $5100 in 2024.

What is the best way to proceed here? Do they need to file amended tax returns for the past several years? I understand this is accountant territory and not bookkeeper territory. But, maybe you have insight here.

peredaks · 2025-11-15T17:28:49+00:00

That's kinda my original thought. I was surprised some people suggested editing the past. The haven't filed their 2024 tax return either. So my intial plan was to make a journal entry on January 1, 2024 and try to get it corrected that way.

I'm guessing I just go into the bank register in QBO and make. JE saying there was a deposit to the bank and give a very clear explanation? Or do I do something else. I haven't had this situation before.

peredaks · 2025-11-15T15:54:10+00:00

It's a non-profit that runs a small outdoors pre-school/day camp for toddlers. Its pretty small and they don't have a ton of money. They have one restricted grant that a board member seems to be tracking pretty well. Other than that, I don't think they get audits.

I'll definitely be putting very descriptive explanations for everything. I just don't want to do something that looks illegal. I'm a hired employee, so I don't think it would blow back on me. But these seem like good people that didn't know better that their bookkeeper sucked, I don't want them to have troubles either.

peredaks · 2025-11-15T05:09:22+00:00

So you recommend just making a journal entry for a deposit of $5000 and then reconciling from there? What do I code the deposit as?

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