Multiple sums
18 May 2022 03:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeUp at three am wrestling with my accounts :-(
Around midnight I eventually traced the error in last month's figures to the fact that I had overlooked an unexpected twenty pounds of cash income and had also accidentally recorded an overall increase in cash in hand as a decrease instead.
I've now cleared up the discrepancies in my cash records for this month by referring back to my original notebook and discovering that I had omitted not one but two separate purchases at the market in successive weeks, and double-checking all my printed receipts to reveal that in one of them I had accidentally copied down the value of the change I'd received instead of the price I'd paid. Now at least that portion adds up... the rest will have to wait until morning.
[Edit: I spent a hundred pounds on clothes last month, and sixty-five the month before, including a new watch strap, two 'new' pairs of shoes (one second-hand, one kit) and a lot of underwear. I actually got to wear the sandals yesterday!]
Around midnight I eventually traced the error in last month's figures to the fact that I had overlooked an unexpected twenty pounds of cash income and had also accidentally recorded an overall increase in cash in hand as a decrease instead.
I've now cleared up the discrepancies in my cash records for this month by referring back to my original notebook and discovering that I had omitted not one but two separate purchases at the market in successive weeks, and double-checking all my printed receipts to reveal that in one of them I had accidentally copied down the value of the change I'd received instead of the price I'd paid. Now at least that portion adds up... the rest will have to wait until morning.
[Edit: I spent a hundred pounds on clothes last month, and sixty-five the month before, including a new watch strap, two 'new' pairs of shoes (one second-hand, one kit) and a lot of underwear. I actually got to wear the sandals yesterday!]
