Day One: Monday 9th

Today was my first day on senior projects and I had a lot of fun. I arrived at City Hall at 7:45am and began working at 8:00am. When I first got there, I was given an explanation of what was going on that day and what I would be doing from my sponsor Joanne (the assistant treasurer). After establishing what I was going to be working on for the day I was introduced to the other people and departments in Easthampton City Hall. After meeting the people that I would be working with over the coarse of the next few weeks I went to work on my first task. My first task was to get familiar with the accounting software that is used at the City Hall. Once I was able understand it I went to work on reconciling bank statements for the deposit accounts. I was given a folder of bank statements from different banks and bank accounts and needed to enter the interest earned that period and the ending balance of that account. I entered these numbers in a spread sheet for each account. The ultimate goal was to have the remainder come to equal zero after entering that periods interest earned and ending balance for the month. If there was no extra amount the account was done and the bank statements could be filed away. However, if there was a remainder, I needed to look back through the statement and check the deposit and see if they matched the ones that were entered in the spread sheet and also maybe if the deposits missing had been put into a different account by accident. After I finished reconciling the bank statements I moved onto another activity. The next job I started working on was to research the tailing's. This job first consisted of looking through the outstanding checks that have not been cashed yet by individuals and making sure that those checks were still not cashed or if they had been mark them off as cleared. I found a few large checks that were on the list of ones that had not been cleared but when I checked them online with the bank, they had actually been cashed. This was helpful to the Treasury department because it meant that variance was found in the checks that were cleared, so the Treasurer found out were money was, when it was marked not found and missing in the variance. Most of the stuff in the Treasurers office is done in a cycle through the weeks starting on Wednesday, so today when I jumped in to work, I jumped into the middle of the cycle or processing things. It will be easier for me to understand the overall process of things after a weeks rotation of things that need to be done in order instead of jumping in in the middle of things. I had a great first day and look forward to going back tomorrow morning.