Well, we're not actually waiting for Godot (the title of a Samuel Beckett play), unless, of course, Godot is an accountant working for one of our clients!
In the freight bill auditing business, we often have a lag auditing bills in the first month or two of the new year. An email to a client asking them to send their next batch of freight bills to us for audit brought the standard response, "We're waiting for our auditors to finish with their work and then we'll send them right to you." I'll give them another call today and hopefully they will have closed out their year and we can get right on their bills.
It's not always that way - we have many clients who have their Freight Payment provider ship their bills to us each week. For those clients, we often do the audit and place their bills into storage boxes and send the bills on to them ready for their Records Retention department (or arrange for their Records Storage company to pick them up). It does give us regular ongoing work, while we wait for Godot or Smith or Kowalsky to finish the bookkeeping for the other clients!
If your accountants have finished the year end work, why not give us a call and make arrangements for us to do a post audit of your freight bills for you. We continue to find mistakes even after payment audits. We'd love to have the chance to bring some of your money back to you.
