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Payroll Potpourri
Accounts Payable Trivia
Finance Staff Miscellany
Financial Hodge Podge
Accounting Minutia
100
The Seaport's new payroll service.
What is Paychex?
100
There are 4,687 of these in the Accounts Payable system.
What are active vendors?
100
She receipts all cash and generates accounts receivable billings, among other things.
Who is Sally Ackley?
100
Disbursements, Payroll, Receipts.
What are the operating bank accounts at the Seaport?
100
The 2016 IRS mileage rate.
What is 54 cents?
200
The number of payrolls in calendar year 2015.
What is 27?
200
Cash/True Value.
What is the vendor with the most invoices (872 in the past year)?
200
Her job description includes working with Event Network, Coastal Gourmet, the webstore, wholesale and the Maritime Art Gallery, fixed assets, royalties, the SeaPass, and reconciling the disbursements account.
Who is Melissa Stratton?
200
Nickname(s) for the Blackbaud software systems that facilitate Advancement, the Gates, Central Reservations, Membership and Finance, and allow them all to communicate with each other.
What are the "Edges," Raisers (yes, that's how it's spelled) Edge, Financial Edge and Patron Edge?
200
1,057 separate accounts.
What is the number of accounts in next year's budget?
300
The fringe rate in 2015-16.
What is 22.5%?
300
An invoice may receive this nickname if it is unapproved.
What is a boomerang?
300
This superhero is associated with Chris Hawkins, our Accounts Payable clerk.
Who is the Flash?
300
The information return that is filed annually with the IRS.
What is the Form 990?
300
This contains 77 separate funds.
What is the Seaport's endowment?
400
This happens every other Tuesday morning.
What is the review and submission of payroll to Paychex (for payment on the following Friday)?
400
This process informs the bank that a check run has been produced and authorizes the bank to pay the check(s).
What is positive pay?
400
Finance Staff members with 15 or more years at the Seaport.
Who are Deb Ackley, Sally Ackley and Kathy Bremer?
400
The annual visit from our auditors.
What does the Finance Dept. look forward to more than anything else (!) every June?
400
Currently, 123 active cost centers.
What is the number of departments?
500
On April 8, 2016, 257 of these were generated and distributed to the staff of the Mystic Seaport.
What are payroll checks and direct deposits?
500
In the past year, 4,746 were issued (not including those for payroll).
What are (vendor) checks?
500
She makes sure payroll is funded on a timely basis (so be nice to her).
Who is Kathy Bremer?
500
A weekly count of selected warehouse items for sale in webstore or through wholesale.
What is an inventory (cycle) count?
500
The dollar threshold for invoices that require a higher level of approval, i.e., Marcy's.
What is $5,000?