Back in Shanghai...

And really glad I didn't major in Accounting.

After an awesome trip to Tokyo, which I will outline in my next post, I returned to find the finance department entering the arduous process known as "Year End Close." During this time, all financial documents must be produced or updated and for yours truly it means the end of the budget process. Sounds great, right? Would be, if the last step in the budget didn't happen to be the creation of the Cash Flow Budget.

So far, my work with the budget has been challenging, but hasn't involved any really heavy lifting from an accounting standpoint, mostly it was just tracking down information about each department and figuring out what they would need from a staffing and financial standpoint to meet the service demand figures I estimated for them for next year. The Cash Flow statement on the other hand, is pretty much pure Accounting 100, a course I took my almost 4 years ago, and remember virtually nothing useful from.

So that was the long way to say that work is really busy right now, but time seems to be flying by regardless as I find myself with just over a month left in Shanghai before I pack up and leave for the states (with a 3 week layover in India and Singapore!)