Accountant asking for receipts

[SueEllen]

I'm with an accountant frequently recommended on these pages & am currently in the process of having my accounts done.
They are telling me they have to see all my receipts. This isn't something I've ever been requested to produce before & frankly can't see that it's any of their business. I won't mention the name of said accoutants (yet) but they sometimes seem to be behaving more like an umbrella than an accountant.

While this may seem odd to you some accountants do provide this service for their customers. And some customers expect it.

Its the trainees who have to deal with them as they like making their trainees suffer.

I know a few people who are now fully qualified accountants who started out with jobs like this.

[pmeswani]

I'm with an accountant frequently recommended on these pages & am currently in the process of having my accounts done.
They are telling me they have to see all my receipts. This isn't something I've ever been requested to produce before & frankly can't see that it's any of their business. I won't mention the name of said accoutants (yet) but they sometimes seem to be behaving more like an umbrella than an accountant.

Either you are up to no good and claimed more than what you are entitled to, or you are hiding something. Did you lose any receipts? Did you artificially inflated some claims? Have you been a naughty boy?