Bruised Bananas

Accounting seems like a profession void of color and creativity.

The education also presents a stark contrast.
You know, like in 7th grade life science:
"Color the mandible of the lobster blue. Color the abdomen yellow."
And then you had a fantastically colored crustacean to hang on the fridge?

Oh, how I wish accounting continuing education was colorable.
"Circle the at-risk loss limitations in pink. Color the situation in which the §454 election would be beneficial."

It just doesn't work. Accounting is unfortunately a colorless world.
It's actually startling when I page through a file and come across a document from a color printer.
It's like woah.

At work, we have "work in process" lists. It's basically a list of all the clients you're assigned to do and what you're working on at the moment. Needless to say, during busy season, it is very handy to keep up with and look at all the S you have going on.

That why my document is saved on my desktop as "s".
(or "s.xlsx", if you will)

But now that it's no longer busy season, it's like:

But I do have about eight projects that I occasionally update. And because I spend a lot of the day looking at other spreadsheets, I've taken it upon my self to color my "s" spreadsheet as rainbow bright and psychedelically as Lisa Frank stationery.

Yeah. You know what I'm talking about.

And that's about as far as I can go with creativity in the tax profession. If you're too creative with tax, you go to jail. Or get very, very fined, and then your reputation and license to practice is toilet-worthy.

At the GSCPA meeting yesterday, there was a presentation on how to build a CPA firm's visibility and reputation in the community. So then at our staff meeting, we decided to take and implement a few suggestions from the presentation on updating our website and writing a few press releases. Because my passions were once journalism, then chiropractic, and then accounting, I volunteered to write the blurbs for the press releases.
And then I popped my own back in my chair.

We also decided that to be "memorable", we'll need a short and sweet tagline for our firm describing what we do. I took it upon myself to come up with 5 taglines to share at the next meeting.

While coming up with these tag lines for our firm and writing a stunning press release on myself as the "new" hire, I felt like I was working more in creative than a compliance profession.

And I thought, "My job (and hair cut) is finally like Mad Men!"

 

 

And I'm even wearing pink today.

Generic potato chips have more flavor,
TWS