The fiscal year in Nevada started on July 1st.
It’s a day of chaos, exacerbated by Independence Day vacations and our biennial budgeting season.
The accountants are closing last year’s books and opening the next year’s funds. Payments grind to a halt, to the chagrin of our vendors.
One day shouldn’t cause so much chaos. The ridiculousness of this fiscal rollover is an unglamorous part of this job.
This year, we are trying some new processes to mitigate the pain. (Let’s hope!)
Our task is to catch problems before things get ugly. Lacking that, we need to communicate our way through the mess.
One day we’ll get it right.
If not this year, we’ll have another chance in twelve months.
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Do y’all have craziness around any artificial dates? How do you manage?
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I recently watched Arcane on Netflix. The show is great. One of the highlights of this show is this fight between childhood friends. It’s a masterpiece in storytelling and sound design.
Which leads to this classic fight in Jet Li’s Hero. Real duels are never this neatly beautiful, but movies aren’t meant to be real.
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Justus Pang, RA