Busy Season Aftershock Summer Outing @ EK








The heat is on! Everybody's excited to enter EK..











Before riding the famous rio grande











After riding rio grande, we're all wet!!











Getting ready for the splash...











Before riding the most terrifying ride of all ~ space shuttle











Solo posing! hehehe











Da masculados (hehehe wala namang mga muscles!)











Da new labtim! (kabubbles and amihan)











Mga pinakamagandang hayop sa balat ng EK!











Hannah has flown! Impossible? (mcdonalds) jk!











Boss ECP nasisiyahan sa tuwang naidulot ng ek!!











we're leaving ek... huhuhu :(











ECP effect of ek!

Almost there...



I was getting a lil bit hysterical awhile ago simply because my last client for this busy season can't seem to meet the deadline. I started the fieldwork early this April and some of their schedules won't tie up with the trial balance. Anyway, I was really amazed because I was expecting this financial statement to be tentative.



The feeling is triumphant in a way and also frustrating on the otherhand. The busy season is almost over. Come tomorrow, the deadline would put to an end such horrific experience. Though I described it as such, it can't be compared to the things I've learned this busy season. More details when its "technically" finished.



Now that I am just waiting for the printed financial statements to be finished. I still feel a certain anxiety and a feeling of dismay since two of our financial statements are under Post QC. There might still be a chance that changes might occur. Plus this would give demerit to our partner. Anyway, we're almost there. Little footsteps before reaching our destiny. I feel a bit fulfilled. Though physically I am burnt and extremely exhausted, I can still say that it paid-off after all.

The Pressure is On!



Only 10 days remaining before the deadline of the financial statements. I can already feel the pressure coming. Rushing for ITR and finalizing F/S. Geez, why do we always have to cram?! On my list, i have so many things left undone. Again, this would cause me to stay here at office day and night til we reach the final day. Hope all our efforts will get paid. We sacrificed our life for this firm. Anyway, so much for that. There's nothing we can do but continue working til we reach our endeavors...



Just recently saw an ad regarding an opening in the Company i yearn to be employed all my life. They require that the applicant have at least three years experience with a large company using a technical software. The work is more of a supervisory accountant maintaining the general ledger and preparing f/s and management reports. Sounds interesting plus the pay is highly competitive and the benefits seem endless. Darn! I think I have to stay here for a while to gain that three years work experience. But then again, I should somehow have a knowledge of that industry and also technical skills in using the said software. Watchamay gonna do? Hmm.. I'll just wait and see. Just finish this present commitments and then way I go in reaching my goals...

Burnt...





Have you ever felt all exhausted and all problems seem to pile up. Well, I'm in a situation like that. Just recently, I've been suspended by SGV & Co. for sending Cluster's Christmas Party Pictures. How preposterous?! I've been on the verge of killing myself because of the heavy loads of work we have in the firm and this is their way to repay us? I hate to say this but the firm's rules are very harsh. It seems to me that they do not give what the employees really deserve. We work hard for in order to maintain the quality that Ernst & Young connotes but I really cannot ponder how the Human Resources Group could do such things to us. Sheeesh... It's really getting exhausting, for crying out loud...



We SGVians do not ask much in return for our hardwork. We just wanted to feel that the firm be a little bit considerate and a lot more human. How could they suspend somebody in the middle of the busy season knowing that the firm is understaff. Who will absorb the work in such absence? Of course, nobody! And we will again strive harder to please the firm. But I've been there. Done that. I even ended up with all the frustrations one can get. I think things will just go to waste and such efforts left unrewarded.



Then you ask why I am still here and continue to be associated with the firm. All's different now. Previously, I aim to contribute something for the firm. To maintain excellence and preserve its dignified reputation. But since this incident had happened, I abhor the firm and disgusted by the rules and regulation. Nonetheless with the Human Resources Group "protecting" its auditors. Well, its now for personal gain. I'm still staying here not for the firm's welfare, I may say. Nor is it to improve towards quality and prestige of the firm. That is futile for now. I'm staying here so that I could gain experience. There was a time that I question people who just consider the firm as a training ground. But now I understand. The firm do not give what their people deserves (i.e. higher salaries, deserved benefits, and other things to keep us dedicated to the firm).



My only consolation in staying with the firm is my collegues and the work experience I'm gaining. Other than that there's none. NADA! So i guess, I oughta be looking for a new venture. Something that gives a greater sense of fulfillment. On top of my list is being an accounting professor. You can really envision yourself teaching and imparting knowledge that would enrich other people's minds and hearts through inspiration and skills that may be developed. We'll that's what I can call an ideal work because it gives you a sense of self-efficacy that you're actually contributing to your employer and of course to your clients (students in this case).



But I do not close my doors and leave things unresolved. In fact, I've already sent a letter to the HR Partner and IT Adminstrator relating to them my suggestions for improvement and my two cents worth of opinion. I guess I did not leave it completely unresolved. It's up to them to hear from an associate auditor. Which I believe gives life by adding blood to pump through the veins of the firm.

The Butterfly Effect



Even if its busy season here at SGV it doesn't stop me from watching movies that are really striking. Saw the trailer of this movie a month ago. It give me a cold trail of curiousity and i wanted to figure out what's the real score. The movie is about going back to any written part in your life with the ability to change the actions that you've done. Of course, it's plausible to know that if you alter your past life it would definitely affect the life you're living at the moment. It's an entertaining movie and at the same time the idea is just awesome but still... its fiction.



Come to think of it, i would love to go back in time and make alterations in my life. But the big question is the effect it could result because of such alterations. For one, maybe i would try to change my degree and get a more exciting course. Not that i resent what i do now but i long for excitement in the field that i'll be working on. Moreover, i would have to go back on the time i started smoking. I wouldn't be influenced by others. That's beneficial. Hmm.. Or maybe i would even go to the time when I was still in college. Probably, do more exciting stuff. There are things that i haven't done that i couldn't do now. The fun stuff. Hehe



Anyway, nuff with all the illusions. I'm contented with my life and how I'm living it. But it's pretty good wondering about what will happen if you did this or didn't do that. Life is left to be lived for us to commit such mistakes. For us to know the solutions. For us to be stronger on such circumstances. And we live to learn.

Effect of Busy Season:





crazy rondzkee...

Prelude to the Busy Season...



Just a bit of background first regarding my work. A person who tests the validity of the clients' financial information reflected on their annual reports called financial statements. We do not actually by 100% assure that the financial statements are accurate. We, however, attest that the financial statements are fairly stated and it could be relied upon by users of such report. We are an auditor. Nuff said. Before I make it a lil boring let me just say that 70-80% of our time is dedicated in our work. Why? Since there is so much to do and we do not have enough manpower in the firm. Why? I guess the firm is more profit oriented and in my opinion harrasses each one of its staff. Well that is the negative way, i may say. But there is so many things that we get from these weaknesses. We learn the value of working hard and using our time wisely. We learn the knitty gritty procedures in every company that we audit. In short, we are trained thoroughly before we go out and face the world of business. Yes we will get out. Simply because majority of the staff are really working here temporarily and wanted to seek a greener pasture somewhere out there. You might ask why go to other place if you could experience what the firm is offering? In defense, i could say that time with its scarcity is to be enjoyed in living it not in focusing with your work. Work is not intended to be lived but the contrary. Anyway, i could say all of this stuff since i am experiencing a great deal of stress and anxiety when coming home from work. I realized that so many things are wasted but again i could say that so many things are gained in return. The experience is like an intangible asset that appreciates through our stay on the firm. Well this would have to be just a prelude and we all expect things to become worse. With all that I just wish myself all the luck in accomplishing this short term goals. And just maybe, i will come to appreciate these things as time goes on.