The auditors finally arrived this morning about 10:30. Yesterday they gave us a list of 22 transactions they wanted to review and asked us to pull the purchase order, the invoice, and the cancelled check for each and have it ready for them bright and early today. Yeah right. Iron Mountain came by and picked up all that stuff for archiving years ago. It's probably in a warehouse somewhere in Moses Lake. It'll take at least a week to retrieve it (not to mention that we're going to have to pay Iron Mountain a retrieval fee). The auditors seemed upset when we didn't have it ready for them, saying that we were impeding their audit, threatening to elevate this as an access to records issue, telling us that we could be subpoenaed. In fact, they sounded something like this:
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Don't Mess With the Auditors
The auditors finally arrived this morning about 10:30. Yesterday they gave us a list of 22 transactions they wanted to review and asked us to pull the purchase order, the invoice, and the cancelled check for each and have it ready for them bright and early today. Yeah right. Iron Mountain came by and picked up all that stuff for archiving years ago. It's probably in a warehouse somewhere in Moses Lake. It'll take at least a week to retrieve it (not to mention that we're going to have to pay Iron Mountain a retrieval fee). The auditors seemed upset when we didn't have it ready for them, saying that we were impeding their audit, threatening to elevate this as an access to records issue, telling us that we could be subpoenaed. In fact, they sounded something like this:
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