Magic Inc.: An Oriceran Urban Cozy (The Evermores Chronicles Book 1) by Martha Carr & Michael Anderle

Author:Martha Carr & Michael Anderle [Carr, Martha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2021-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

Fran sat at the kitchen counter, her laptop perched in front of the coffee machine, a pile of receipts and bills in front of her. She looked through the pile again, hoping that there might somehow be fewer than when she had last looked. Instead, she spotted one that she hadn’t noticed before.

She pushed the papers aside and opened a spreadsheet on the laptop. On its first tab, she titled the first few columns, used headers like “earnings,” “outgoings,” and “date.” She made those words bold, outlined the columns around them, and saved the sheet as “Accounts Year 1”.

There, that was a start. Now she could get back to her prototypes, right? Except that Gruffbar had been very clear that she had to keep accounts. It was a legal obligation and one of the first things the authorities would want to see. Even their new client at the FBI had a right to some of their accounting information as part of the contract, which currently only existed in the form of crumpled receipts and unpaid debts to electronics shops.

Fran picked up the first receipt for a jar of newt’s eyes and two packs of enchanted runic chalk from a magical supply shop. That went under expenses, but what sort of expense? Which date should she give it, the one when she’d been shopping or when the money had gone from her account?

She set that receipt aside unprocessed and picked up another one. This time it was for magically coated computer cables, the reinforced kind that could carry a heavy mystical load. She hadn’t used them in the project yet, so could she still put them in the expenses? If she used half, did she only put half the cost onto the spreadsheet? What about the electricity she was using while she worked? Or the electricity she was using while she thought about how much electricity she was using?

“Aah!” Fran flung the receipts in the air and threw herself to the floor in exasperation.

At that moment, the door to the apartment opened, and Josie walked in. She looked at Fran and the scraps of paper falling around her.

“What’s the matter?” Josie asked.

“Nothing,” Fran said without conviction.

Josie picked up and read one of the receipts.

“Can you not afford these things?” she asked. “Is it stressing you out?”

“No. I mean yes, it’s stressing me out, but I can afford them. Just about. For now. The problem is the accounts.” Fran pressed her head back against a cupboard door. “Accounts are haaaaard.”

Josie looked at the spreadsheet and stifled a laugh.

“Don’t you need to make some accounts before you know that?” she asked.

“I’m trying! Look, there’s an expenses column and an earnings column, and accounting things like that. I even did headers.”

“Yes, you did. Although I think you might need to add a couple of things, like what the expense is and who you paid it to. Then there’s factoring in the taxes…”

Fran leaped to her feet and wrapped her arms around her roommate.

“Josie, you’re my savior! You understand accounts.

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