# Need an attitude adjustment or a sanity check

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-attitude-adjustment-or-a-sanity-check/719700>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 10, 2015, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-attitude-adjustment-or-a-sanity-check/719700 "2015-05-10T13:57:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-attitude-adjustment-or-a-sanity-check/719700/21 "2015-05-13T17:05:33Z")

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> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#):
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> Regarding the volunteer Treasurer position, does the organization have an accountant that does the annual 990 tax return? If so, get him to help you with this. They will clearly see this as an ‘issue’ from an accounting & fiscal reporting standpoint. Talk to them about this, and they can put something about this in a Note to the Annual Financial Statement or accompanying Auditors Recommendations’. If it’s worded something like “Founder spends too much time on mundane financial matters like writing checks when she should be concentrating on strategic direction of the organization; we recommend that she be relieved of this by havind ALL such work done only by the Treasurer”.

Around here, an audit finding is a Serious Thing; it’s not a way for someone internally to air their gripes and have the auditors put it in writing. It’s the auditors finding something serious enough with enough effect on their opinion that they write it up. Yes, the director’s actions are inconvenient and make the work harder, but they haven’t led to fraud or mismanagement. And as I mentioned, having one person do everything cuts out internal controls over someone else having eyes on what is going on.

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