Our project perhaps required a candidate with more experience handling foreign currencies. Lillian is a very amiable person but travelling to client offices more than a few miles away and foreign currencies are most probably not playing to her strengths. However, our financial controller was able to make the required changes to the invoices generated by Lillian which has now put the business back on track and we have settled Lillians account in full as a gesture of our goodwill for having to bring our relationship to closure a little sooner than we had originally intended. We wish Lillian much success.
on 24 Nov 2011
Lillian's response:
I worked with Gerry on a short-term bookkeeping project to generate foreign currency invoices as he had a backlog of invoices due to his previous bookkeeper leaving the company un-announced.
As to the point of my lack of knowledge in foreign currency dealing, this is incorrect as I have had substantial experience of foreign currency dealings working with a wide variety of companies which incidentally is a relatively straight forward process. In fact Gerry discussed with me about increasing my workload which I couldn't accept due to my commitment to other clients.
Travelling to Gerry’s office wasn't a few miles as he indicated but a total of 68 miles round trip. The payment received from Gerry wasn't a gesture of his goodwill but rather the agreed fee. I am pleased Gerry took my advice to assign all his accounts/bookkeeping work to his Financial Controller as oppose to three accounts personnel. I enjoyed my experience working with his company and wish him and his company well for the future.
I worked with Gerry on a short-term bookkeeping project to generate foreign currency invoices as he had a backlog of invoices due to his previous bookkeeper leaving the company un-announced. As to the point of my lack of knowledge in foreign currency dealing, this is incorrect as I have had substantial experience of foreign currency dealings working with a wide variety of companies which incidentally is a relatively straight forward process. In fact Gerry discussed with me about increasing my workload which I couldn't accept due to my commitment to other clients. Travelling to Gerry’s office wasn't a few miles as he indicated but a total of 68 miles round trip. The payment received from Gerry wasn't a gesture of his goodwill but rather the agreed fee. I am pleased Gerry took my advice to assign all his accounts/bookkeeping work to his Financial Controller as oppose to three accounts personnel. I enjoyed my experience working with his company and wish him and his company well for the future.
Unfortunately, Lillian choose not to continue with htis project and left without notice on 1 June 2011
on 16 Jun 2011
Lillian's response:
I worked with Gerard for a period of time on a Sage 50 Bookkeeping Project. Gerry is a lovely person to with, unfortunately he didn't have sufficient money to pay for my service so I terminated the project as stated on letter of engagement.
Thanks for the help. I originally planned to achieve objectives within my stated budget however I realised I had underestimated how long this sort of thing normally takes to learn.
Thank you for coming in yesterday, Maria and I both felt that your skills are well suited to the position. We look forward to seeing you on Monday. Regards, Jason
Lillian is a person who applies great attention to detail and communicates well to ensure non financial/accounting people are able to understand their financial position
Our project perhaps required a candidate with more experience handling foreign currencies. Lillian is a very amiable person but travelling to client offices more than a few miles away and foreign currencies are most probably not playing to her strengths. However, our financial controller was able to make the required changes to the invoices generated by Lillian which has now put the business back on track and we have settled Lillians account in full as a gesture of our goodwill for having to bring our relationship to closure a little sooner than we had originally intended. We wish Lillian much success.
Thanks for the help. I originally planned to achieve objectives within my stated budget however I realised I had underestimated how long this sort of thing normally takes to learn.
Thank you for coming in yesterday, Maria and I both felt that your skills are well suited to the position. We look forward to seeing you on Monday. Regards, Jason
Lillian is a person who applies great attention to detail and communicates well to ensure non financial/accounting people are able to understand their financial position