Why do books never balance late at night?

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

1. 1
   tossing things into suspense or miscellaneous accounts
2. 2
   ignoring immaterial discrepancies
3. 3
   doing a quick Ctrl+F to remove curse words before sending work to managers
4. 4
   Calling customer support multiple times
5. 5
   Manually calculating expected net totals based on cost of goods sold and quantities sold
6. 6
   Reconciling transactions in layers using item-level exports
7. 7
   searching for someone on Upwork or bringing a specialist onto the team to setup and build out the system properly

In their words

Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.