A reclass is literally Accounting 101, and this is not the first reclass he's been handed, but it is the simplest, because he didn't have to run any P&L reports to get the totals first, recalculate totals, or some other such complication like that. The email specifically gave him the amount, the original account number and the new account number and said, "This [one] transaction was entered incorrectly and needs to be reclassed."
His resume says he's been doing accounting for 12+ years, with a slew of high-level accounting tasks listed, like preparing financial reports for board meetings, processing GL reconciliations, etc. So unless he meant printing off pages and stapling them together after someone else actually "prepared" them, I can't for the life of me figure out how he isn't understanding some of the simplest of accounting concepts.
The problem is that he was hired to be the Admin Accountant, which is a higher level position than all of the other grant accountants in our department and does require a lot of experience and accounting knowledge to be brought to the table. It requires someone who can think critically, understands accruals and reclasses and allocations, and isn't needing to be hand-held 6 months after being hired. Everyone that initially says, oh, well maybe he just hasn't had proper training and then sits with him walks away after about an hour saying, NOPE, and please don't ask me to help him again.
Luckily, all JEs are a two-step process where it gets uploaded and marked as "Pending Approval" and then someone else posts it after verification. It can be wholesale deleted so long as it hasn't been posted yet, and if something goes through incorrectly, we can still process reversals of the entire entry, or in the case of a reclass, hand pick a specific line item to correct.
Deleted JEs are also shown in the JE list as a matter of record, but with all of the line items removed (debits and credits = 0). For every one entry of his that gets posted he tends to have 2-3 that were deleted first. I've adjusted the filter to display all but the deleted entries because he creates so many of them I have gotten tired of seeing them.
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Date: 2022-04-01 02:17 pm (UTC)His resume says he's been doing accounting for 12+ years, with a slew of high-level accounting tasks listed, like preparing financial reports for board meetings, processing GL reconciliations, etc. So unless he meant printing off pages and stapling them together after someone else actually "prepared" them, I can't for the life of me figure out how he isn't understanding some of the simplest of accounting concepts.
The problem is that he was hired to be the Admin Accountant, which is a higher level position than all of the other grant accountants in our department and does require a lot of experience and accounting knowledge to be brought to the table. It requires someone who can think critically, understands accruals and reclasses and allocations, and isn't needing to be hand-held 6 months after being hired. Everyone that initially says, oh, well maybe he just hasn't had proper training and then sits with him walks away after about an hour saying, NOPE, and please don't ask me to help him again.
Luckily, all JEs are a two-step process where it gets uploaded and marked as "Pending Approval" and then someone else posts it after verification. It can be wholesale deleted so long as it hasn't been posted yet, and if something goes through incorrectly, we can still process reversals of the entire entry, or in the case of a reclass, hand pick a specific line item to correct.
Deleted JEs are also shown in the JE list as a matter of record, but with all of the line items removed (debits and credits = 0). For every one entry of his that gets posted he tends to have 2-3 that were deleted first. I've adjusted the filter to display all but the deleted entries because he creates so many of them I have gotten tired of seeing them.