Poetry in Accounts Payable

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We recently asked readers to submit either a Haiku (17 syllable Japanese poem) or longer poem. Readers of our weekly ezine were invited to vote.

There was a tie. The two winning entries follow:

• Hate 1099s!
  Yeay! We pay with a P-card
  Now, bank must report!  
  
  
• Company watchdogs
  Never appreciated
  Until audit time!

The runners-up in our AP Poetry Contest:

• 1) Desk drowns in papers
  As the last spot quickly fades
  Into a new year.

• 2) Oh to tell of the joys of working in accounts payable today.
  Checking purchase orders, matching invoices, watch the online payments!
  New vendor, use tax again, year end filings, when is the next check run? 

• 3) Please, where is my check?
  Ah, if you took a P-card
  You would be paid now.  

• 4) Keying and Keying
  Requests, Ariba, Concur
  Now add refunding!
  
  
• 5)Multiple systems
  Cannot find the invoices
  Research craziness
  
  
•  6)Incomplete report
  Need more detail, resubmit
  Users need training
  
  
•  7) Missing receipts for
  Reimbursable expenses
  Rejection is key

• 8) Account on hold?
  Invoice submitted last month
  Likely story

• 9) Negative is red
  Positive is black and white
  What color is zero?

• 10) Manic Monday *sigh*
  Playing catch-up all day long
  Wishing for weekends

And a poem submitted by our colleague, Jim Frazier, the Sales Tax Guy (and not part of the contest).

              Collect sales tax, you kept?
              Beware the tax man, he'll catch you.
              Orange suits will look nice.

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