How To Take An Accounting Sickie

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• ■ are gross margins making you gag?
• ■ has that special journal left spew over your spreadsheets?
• ■ are your accounting colleagues causing you to cough up?
• ■ will your Chart of Accounts make you chunder??

It sounds like an accounting sickie is imminent.

Taking a sicky is never easy, but for those diligently doing double-entry the task is liberally laced with lashings of guilt.

To overcome this, ailing accounts staff have, over the centuries, learnt to be highly creative in conjuring up reasons for their absence.

Here's a selection of excuses to inspire your own creativity!:

• ■ nose-cold

• ■ head-cold

• ■ leg-cold

• ■ caught a virus from my hard drive

• ■ ears are on fire

• ■ teeth have started inflating

• ■ arm has fallen off

• ■ both arms has fallen off

• ■ head has blown off

• ■ legs have started walking backwards

• ■ have developed an allergy to accountants

• ■ bored-out-of-my-skinitis

• ■ ledger-poisoning

• ■ just-can't-face-coming-in syndrome

• ■ still-can't-face-coming-in-and-sitting-among-all-those-accounting-nutters syndrome

• ■ accidentally fell head first into the shredder

• ■ I woke up and now can't move my nostrils

• ■ Am in severe shock after dreaming a non-balancing journal got posted

• ■ I looked in the mirror and I wasn't there