An invoice dated 22 December and paid on 8 January can easily slip into the wrong year when it is booked.
The receipt arrives as a scan in the receipt archive; the invoice date is printed large in the header, while the payment date appears only on the bank statement. Bookings follow what is visible on the receipt. The discrepancy only surfaces when the bank accounts are reconciled, and by then the cash-basis profit statement (EÜR) is already in draft.
180receipts a monthThat is how many incoming receipts pass through the receipt archive for client 41802.
23receipts with a different payment dateFor these, the invoice date and the payment fall in different months.
6receipts across the year endFor these, payment falls in the new year, but they are booked by invoice date.
2rounds per repostingOne during account reconciliation, one after a query to the client.
Here, 50% fewer corrections means that of the two rounds per reposting, only the first remains: the query to the client in February is no longer needed, because the payment date is already backed by the bank transaction.
The 50% reduction in corrections is this agent's headline figure. The number of receipts, the year-end cases and the reconciliation rounds describe a typical month in a tax firm's bookkeeping; nobody counted them.