The Rural Voice, 1982-05, Page 31•
GISELE IRELAND
Financial wizards at work
If you're feeling good. don't worry about it, it will go
away. This is especially true if you happen to have started
applying for the 1982 Ontario Farm Adjustment Assistance
Program. The title alone should give you a clue that a bushel
of papers go along with it.
We had been putting off this goodie for
a couple of weeks but when Mother Nature
cancelleJ Sunday with another of her
passionate flirtations with Old Man
Winter, we thought what the heck, we're
subjected to closed confinement for the
Jay anyway. In a couple of hours we could
put it behind us and still referee the fights
the four offspring were determined to
engage in as they were ticked off because
the church service they were presenting
and a hockey game they had planned to
attend were snuffed. How better to vent your frustrations
than on a set of parents who are right on the spot and see
how long it takes to get them fitted for strait jackets?
We proceeded with the paper work and a couple of hours
and very littered working surfaces later we renamed the
program the Farm Resistance program. Our cash flow
became cash flaw and the projection rapidly turned into
rejection. I realize you need good records to run a successful
business. but this exercise had us scurrying for this and that
from above and below until we resembled a couple of
groundhogs digging a burrow in a rock pile.
I got lost somewhere between the straight-line method
and a declining balance. If our balance hadn't been
declining, 1 wouldn't have started the wretched accounting
nightmare in the first place. At the end of one of the
numerous reports they ask what monies would be left for
investments, savings and income tax. I would hop along
with Peter Rabbit if there was enough left over to buy Levis
for all of the Fighting Four now practicing Kung Fu in the
living room. The television doesn't interest them much and
you get a lot more parental attention if you yell and scream a
lot punctuated by a horrendous crash once in a while.
When we thought we had completed it, we still weren't
sure and I guess that is for the banker and OMAF to
determine. We did manage to get a terrific headache,
writer's cramps and a foggy image of accrual and
projection. We even had multiple choices as to what we
wanted in the end, but my suggestion for the whole thing
wasn't listed. The restrictions are about as tough as trying
to get into the Miss Bikini Contest if you're over thirty with
shifted cargo and the rewards are as satisfying as political
promises.
The Financial Wizard and I decided that the next exercise
like this should at first be avoided, and if not, at least
tackled after we ship the family to Grandma's house. We
should then get a bottle of something wobbly while we skip
through this lighthearted frippery with figures. If you've
dun yours, my sympathies and if you're planning to do,
take heed.
Gisele Ireland, a Bruce County pork producer has the
ability to laugh at situations that would make us cry.
--Congratulations—
dr-
PETER
VANDEBORNE
!1)-7-11,
46,
LE N
LOBB
JERRY
FUHR
Congratulations to Peter, Len and Jerry for their
achievements in International Salestar Program for
1981
PETER VANDEBORNE - One of the top 5 Upward
Bound Achievers in Canada
LEN LOBB - A Top Upward Bound Achiever in Ontario
for the last three quarters.
JERRY FUHR - Top Professional Sales Achiever in
Ontario for the year
We are proud to have these achievers as part of the
organization and appreciate our customer's confidence
which has contributed to these accomplishments.
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