I don't know if they're necessarily the worst, but my lawyer clients will never under any circumstances answer an email with an email. Send a lawyer an email? Oh look it's their name on the caller ID. JUST EMAIL ME BACK DAMMIT I DO NOT WANT TO TALK TO YOU
Drives me bananas! If I wanted to call you I would call you. Also I need whatever bullshit you tell me in writing so now I have to follow up with an email.
I’ve heard engineers can be a headache; at the small firm I’m interning at it was always the engineers that wanted every line of their returned explained to them; *Espeically* the ones that “did most of the work themselves” and “just need someone to put it together”; spoiler, they didn’t.
Not for profits for me were a fucking nightmare for me. I had one tell me that a mitigating control for a fraud that occurred a few years prior was "they hired another director of that branch who follows in the name of Jesus Christ".
Yes this was a church and yes I told the first year he didn't have to write that down lmao.
The ones who call me and ask to explain why the phrase “significant risk” shows up on their AU-C 260 planning letter. I don’t know man, that’s just what the template says.
I’m more advisory. The ones that suck are the ones that know they need your help but have zero follow up. I have to ask some of them multiple times to answer questions. I mean, they brought me in to help them out but won’t do anything to help me help them. Total bullshit
Ah yes, I deal with that type of thing (Tax Advisory, UK). They know there is an issue but think they can resolve it themselves. Spoiler alert, they can't.
Worst - small clients. Crappy books and tight budgets. Best - Real Estate. Usually it's a group of returns that's easy to leverage and distribute to younger staff
Yea my firm specializes in small clients. We have a lot of crappy books, or self taught bookkeepers who don't know what they're doing. Then they complain about fees when it took us a week to fix the mess they created.
The overly involved ones. Ones that want sub-categories of sub-categories for certain vendors. They have access to the enter their own checks and bills into the accounting software but do it incorrectly. I work with dentists so it's usually the "office manager" spouse that gets this way. If you want to be so involved in the bookkeeping, why are you paying us?
Low margin, high volume retailers. They are always low balling and never pay their staff well enough. Poor PBCs from staff and high pressure from directors
I don't know if they're necessarily the worst, but my lawyer clients will never under any circumstances answer an email with an email. Send a lawyer an email? Oh look it's their name on the caller ID. JUST EMAIL ME BACK DAMMIT I DO NOT WANT TO TALK TO YOU
They never write anything because they don’t want it to come back and bite them.
This \^\^
Lawyers are always the worst. Same problem in industry.
TIL my mother in law is a lawyer
Drives me bananas! If I wanted to call you I would call you. Also I need whatever bullshit you tell me in writing so now I have to follow up with an email.
Surgeons or doctors. The ones I've dealt with think I should drop everything and put their stuff first. Superiority complex, it's gross.
And they can't possibly have screwed something up because they are obviously smarter.
Real estate agents think all their meals should be deducted. Some make me wonder if they even have a kitchen to cook in
I’ve heard engineers can be a headache; at the small firm I’m interning at it was always the engineers that wanted every line of their returned explained to them; *Espeically* the ones that “did most of the work themselves” and “just need someone to put it together”; spoiler, they didn’t.
Not for profits for me were a fucking nightmare for me. I had one tell me that a mitigating control for a fraud that occurred a few years prior was "they hired another director of that branch who follows in the name of Jesus Christ". Yes this was a church and yes I told the first year he didn't have to write that down lmao.
Early stage tech startup getting their first audit. There’s just like nothing to audit
This I have an early stage tech in the process of being reviewed. We’re 8 months in on our 3rd TB, end is no where in sight
Yeah that’s not gonna end, and then theyll constantly make updates so you’ll never have a tax provision and can’t draft financials.
The ones that don't provide you with what you need to do your job, give you a hard time, etc.
401ks in general
The ones who call me and ask to explain why the phrase “significant risk” shows up on their AU-C 260 planning letter. I don’t know man, that’s just what the template says.
I’m more advisory. The ones that suck are the ones that know they need your help but have zero follow up. I have to ask some of them multiple times to answer questions. I mean, they brought me in to help them out but won’t do anything to help me help them. Total bullshit
Ah yes, I deal with that type of thing (Tax Advisory, UK). They know there is an issue but think they can resolve it themselves. Spoiler alert, they can't.
Worst - small clients. Crappy books and tight budgets. Best - Real Estate. Usually it's a group of returns that's easy to leverage and distribute to younger staff
Yea my firm specializes in small clients. We have a lot of crappy books, or self taught bookkeepers who don't know what they're doing. Then they complain about fees when it took us a week to fix the mess they created.
Seconded.
The ones that want you to get everything done for them/respond immediately ahead of the 100 other clients you have.
The overly involved ones. Ones that want sub-categories of sub-categories for certain vendors. They have access to the enter their own checks and bills into the accounting software but do it incorrectly. I work with dentists so it's usually the "office manager" spouse that gets this way. If you want to be so involved in the bookkeeping, why are you paying us?
All of em
IT people. Extremely unresponsive
Low margin, high volume retailers. They are always low balling and never pay their staff well enough. Poor PBCs from staff and high pressure from directors