Training Adventures...

Written on May 23, 2008 from Dodoma, Tanzania
By Anne Olson
Training has gone well. We did learn that we cannot do QuickBooks on a computer at an internet café due to the need to install ActiveX (additional software) for QuickBooks to run. Luckily we had my laptop and so they worked together entering expenses using it. Since we didn't get to the internet café until 3pm and could only use one computer it took us longer than I had planned. So it was after 5:30 when we got back to the office and we still had a couple more things to do. It wasn't hard to convince them that we should start at 10am the next day so we could get everything done! We did that for 2 days and got everything done with some time to review documentation in the afternoon one day and time for them to look at reports the next day. I feel pretty good about what they know and their ability to carry on when I leave. The hardest thing to get across is "no signature no money"; you have to sign in order to receive any money from the petty cash box. So much money goes out the door in cash, often times just small amounts, that keeping track of it requires paperwork. We'll see how they do.