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Originally Posted by JaneYoung
From an accounting perspective, this wouldn't work with me. Proof of purchase is reflected in originals receipts and/or documentation verifying the purchase. Having correct accounting procedures in order, in place, and available for inspectors if they were to request it, is another aspect of GP, if you want to look at it in a GP way. It's also excellent training for the real world. I know a few attorneys who understand the value of submitting original receipts to a certain office manager in a timely fashion and learned that the hard way.  |
Well, you already know how well
my team handles accouting.
The thing is that, currently, there's no precedent and nothing in the 2009 manual that suggests that teams will be required to provide proof of purchase for any of the materials used this season. Furthermore, there's nothing that requires that COTS materials be purchased within a given time frame -- so that's why I'm confused as to why an IFI chassis purchased post January 3rd might be considered legal while one from a prior date might not.
We have a pretty tremendous stock of bearings, sprockets and chain on hand and have used items from that stock -- all unmodified and all still available -- on this season's robot and on those we've built in the past. I think it's ridiculous to expect us to produce a proof of purchase for those items and worse to expect that we purchase them only after kickoff. It places undue demand on our suppliers, drives up costs and slows our development. Folks that were around in the years when the rules required nearly all parts be purchased from Small Parts will remember what a hassle and headache it was to get things in a timely, cost efficient manner.
If the intent was for teams to maintain documentation of all purchases and to be able to provide said documentation, it should have been communicated to teams at the outset of the season -- if not earlier -- and I don't think you can fault them for being out of compliance ex post facto.