The hidden issues with GST Reconciliation are similar to ignoring the daily chores. This might look ok in the beginning but after some time you start realizing the importance of it.
For instance, if you do not bring groceries for a month, your groceries start getting out of stock. Similarly, not reconciling your purchase register with your GSTR 2A, you might lose your ITC. This may look fine when the amount is less but when the amount is high you might regret not doing reconciliation.
In this article, we will discuss the hidden issues with GST Reconciliation and their possible solution.
It is a situation where the invoice numbers that you have recorded are different from the supplier's invoice number received in the GST Return 2A.
In a case, if you have a different business unit, there can be a scenario when the supplier mentioned another GSTIN or HQ instead of actual GSTIN of your business unit.
For instance, if you have two business units Delhi and Mumbai and you have purchase machinery under the name of Delhi unit. But the supplier has mentioned the GSTIN of Mumbai business unit.
You may also face such an issue where the invoice date recorded by you are completely different from the supplier invoices date.
You have recorded the invoices in different Return period than that of a supplier or vice-versa.
This is one of the hidden issues with GST Reconciliation you might have used different nomenclature then that of a supplier.
For instance, if you have used a different pattern of invoice number as Inv 01/2018 than that of the supplier Inv 01.
The GST software that you have chosen must integrate with your existing ERP quickly. This ensures that your cost and manual work does not increase while complying with GST.
You must ensure that such GST software is able to handle massive invoice data so as to reconcile GST Return quickly.
While choosing GST software make sure that the data easily upload into your system for reconciliation. Also, after carrying out the reconciliation process it should be able to extract the file from your system within no time.
At the time of selecting GST software, you check out whether it supports deep insights in the reconciliation reports.
The GST software should have a seamless sharing feature. This will helps you to enable your accountant to have a gist of your reconciliation result.
This is the major hidden issue while selecting GST software you must keep this point in mind. The GST software that you choose is dynamic that should be able to evolve fast and in-line with Govt. changes.
The GST software that you select for GST Reconciliation shall be smart and intelligent enough to categorize all missing and wrong information. The wrong information might include wrong Invoice number, date, taxable value etc., and also the details missing in your purchase register or GSTR2A.
Once you integrate GST software into your system, there will be less human intervention. This integration will ensure that there will be less human error by automating your GST Reconciliation process.
Considering all the above points, the GST Software shall be able to make the GST Reconciliation process hassle free over the period of time so that you do not feel the burden of GST compliance.
So, Masters India provides autoTax GST software that is packed with all the above-mentioned features. In addition to this autoTax GST software cover is smart enough to auto-identify and match all the entries to ensure that you claim 100% ITC.


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Trump Anxiety Disorder is sweeping through America. The Christian Psychological Council of Texas reports the new behavioral health disorder is being seen in patients who fell into "liberal coccoon" during the Obama presidency.
The psychological disorder is thought to have been caused by liberals thinking the world revolved around their crazy agenda to ban drinking straws and legalize sin marriages, but then received a strong dose of reality when Trump' s MAGA policies slapped America with traditional morality.
Liberals are getting so bent out of shape by America's quick correction to morality that they are becoming physically I'll and withdrawing from society because their intense anxiety of not getting their way.


Becoming a Brahmin by Meena Kandasamy. .Algorithm for converting a Shudra into a Brahmin Begin. Step 1 Take a beautiful Shudra girl. Step 2 Make her marry a Brahmin. Step 3 Let her give . Page... A curious case ( though those who know the reality understand it well) of a person being posted as a senior functionary in Uttarakhand under the ST category happened to be a Brahmin.
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Cee's Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC): Colors of Your Flag
December 22, 2021 at 12:54 am	(Artists and Writers, Filipino Writers, Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: art, Cee Neuner, exhibits, museums, photo challenge, restaurants, road trip, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, The Philippines
Cee Neuner explains:
This week the topic is Colors of Your Flag. Your flag can include: Country, State, or Providence colors. If you feel comfortable, please say which flag you are showing,
Self's flag is red, white, and blue. She is a dual citizen of America and the Philippines.
Joan Mitchell at SFMOMA, October 2021
Below: red and blue parasols, white walls, and yellow napkins — red, white, blue and yellow are the colors of the Philippine flag.
Luna Red, Chorro St., San Luis Obispo
Cavite, November 1941
December 15, 2021 at 8:52 pm	(Books, Recommended)
Tags: COVID Reading, James D. Hornfischer, Mendocino, reading lists, The Philippines, World War II
. . . the tension that gripped the naval base at Cavite was palpable. A war warning was circulating. Aware of the Asiatic Fleet's vulnerability in Manila, Admiral Hart scattered the vessels. The Houston was stripped down for action. The admiral's flag quarters were cleared of all unnecessary accoutrements. The nicer furniture was stored ashore in Manila, including the silver service and the baby grand piano . . . A shore patrol went to round up stragglers still on liberty.
Ship of Ghosts, p. 31
2nd Day in the Water
November 22, 2021 at 9:17 pm	(Books, Recommended)
Tags: COVID Reading, favorites, James D. Hornfischer, military history, Mondays, naval battles, reading lists, The Philippines, US naval history, World War II
The first ship that came anywhere close to the survivors in the water came at night. It was too dark for the survivors to make out the shape of the ship, but they threw caution to the wind and began shouting, until the boat came closer and they suddenly realized it was a Japanese ship, searching for their own survivors. The ship passed quietly by the Americans, who were praying softly in the water.
That first night, Robert Billie of the Johnston, who'd been wounded, was tied to an unwounded shipmate who held his face above the water. That kept him alive.
On the second morning in the ocean, the skipper of the Johnston, Bob Copeland, instructed the forty or so men who were clinging to one life raft to come up one by one and receive their morning's rations: three malted milk tablets. Self wants to cry.
Tags: COVID Reading, favorites, James D. Hornfischer, Mondays, reading lists, The Philippines, US naval history, World War II
1000 survivors from the sinking of the Johnston, the Roberts, the Hoel, and various others are in the water after being told to abandon ship. Most of them are in the water because their life rafts were full of holes. Admiral Halsey, obtuse as ever, cannot seem to locate the ships' proper coordinates and keeps sending rescue ships out — to the wrong location. Also, he does not send planes to accompany the ships, which would have made finding the men easier. Next thing you know, on p. 376 . . .
Drifting toward a fatal sleep, the men decided to fasten themselves together with their inflatable life belts, assigned each other numbers, and counted off at intervals to indicate their physical and mental presence. Clint Carter had just finished securing himself to Chuck Campbell when someone said, "Shark!" and the men started climbing atop one another toward the stars. In the zero-sum equation of salt-water buoyancy, one man's success was another man's sudden dunking. Something bumped Carter heavily in the back, and he felt a wrenching force. He screamed, put both hands on Campbell's shoulders, and lifted himself out of the water as a shark's bear-trap jaws tore away a chunk of his life vest, along with a small bloody piece of his side. As Carter rose up, his weight plunged Campbell under. The shark let go of Carter, Carter let go of Campbell, and Campbell surfaced spluttering and gasping. Then the shark tasted Carter again, and once more he dunked Campbell in his bid for the raft. The shark let go of Carter, Campbell surfaced and, regaining his breath, he helped lay Carter, bleeding badly, into the raft.
Self sincerely hopes Admiral Halsey received a demotion — he, and not the Japanese, seems to be the real villain of this book. He left his carriers undefended to go chasing after a decoy Japanese battalion. When he got the telegram from the US President, telling him in no uncertain terms to go to the assistance of Taffy 3, Admiral Halsey became upset, threw his hat on the deck, and only calmed down when an aide told him: "Pull yourself together! What is wrong with you!" And then, his rescue operation — waow, probably a second grader could have done it and it would have had the same result.
This (excruciating) chapter (Forty-nine) should likely contain a trigger warning. It traces the fate of particular men, which was absolutely the right decision; it is very gripping. Again, hats off to author James D. Hornfischer for making the right authorial decisions, every step of the way throughout this book.
Chapter Fifty focuses on the survivors of the Samuel B. Roberts. In the middle of the night, they heard a shout:
The voice sounded American . . . He called hoarsely in reply and, echoing one another, ranging by sound, the source of the shouting finally found them. It was a man, swimming alone.
This was Howard Cayo, a former circus acrobat. He had been clinging to a wooden scaffolding with about sixty other men when it was attacked by sharks. After hearing his story, the survivors of the Roberts decided to make a determined effort to swim toward land, a distance they estimated to be around thirty miles.
The US Carrier St. Lo: "A Red Streak"
November 21, 2021 at 7:27 pm	(Artists and Writers, Books, Sundays, Surprises)
Tags: COVID Reading, favorites, James D. Hornfischer, military history, praise, reading lists, The Philippines, US naval history, World War II
Tom Van Brunt from the carrier St. Lo was "circling the carrier at a distance, watching other planes land, when a red streak flew past his greenhouse canopy. The startling appearance of a Japanese insignia painted on a wide white wing was Van Brunt's first indication that enemy aircraft were near. He almost collided with the Japanese plane as it descended toward the St. Lo."
"Shortly before eleven a.m. Taffy 3 came under wholesale kamikaze attack. The Japanese Army Air Corps had debuted this horrific new mode of warfare earlier that morning, when six imperial planes took off from bases on Davao and attacked Thomas Sprague's Taffy 1 task unit. (There are two Spragues in this theater of war: very confusing! Ziggy Sprague is the commander of Taffy 3; Thomas Sprague is the commander of Taffy 1, which was providing cover for MacArthur's landing. And these two are NOT RELATED) One struck the escort carrier Santee, starting a huge blaze that raged in the hangar deck for about ten minutes. Only the expert marksmanship of gunners aboard the Suwannee, the Sangamon, and the Petrof Bay let them avoid similar hits.
At 10:50 five more aircraft flying from airdromes on Luzon arrived over Taffy 3 and plummeted like osprey . . . "
"A Zero, a bomb under each wing, rose up, nosed over, and plunged into the flight deck. One or both bombs went off" just as eight planes were being reloaded. Piled around them was "enough weaponry to blow a small town out of existence: eight torpedoes, six depth charges, fifteen 500-lb. bombs, forty 100-pounders, and some 1,400 rounds of .50-caliber ammunition."
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, p. 351
It took only one Japanese plane, but the aim of that pilot was true: straight into the bridge. And the St. Lo went down.
That reminds self of another set of planes . . .
Once again, stellar stellar writing from James D. Hornfischer. There is no reason he needed to summon imagery for the red streaks. Nevertheless, "plummeted like osprey" is a hell of a metaphor, just sayin'
And the list of ammunition, instead of just saying: the whole hangar went up in flames.
9:07 a.m., the Gambier Bay
November 20, 2021 at 7:50 pm	(Artists and Writers, Books, Recommended)
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9:07 a.m. — The Gambier Bay, the first American carrier ever to fall to the guns of a hostile force (in nearly three years of fighting, which is really saying something), sank. The call to abandon ship had been issued twenty minutes before.
We now see the sinking from the point of view of Captain Vieweg, "among the last to leave the ship." Again, the total mastery (and stellar writing)! Hats off to you, James D. Hornfischer!
Vieweg felt his way aft, looking for the ladder down to the starboard catwalk. In the smoke and steam he missed the ladder altogether and plummeted into a void. The smoke was so black and the heat so intense that the captain, thoroughly disoriented, feared he had fallen right into the main exhaust stack. On a CVE its yawning black chasm was nearly flush with the flight deck. Panicked, Vieweg grabbed the rim of the steel enclosure he lay in and hauled himself out of it. Then he was falling again. He broke into clear air, fell about forty feet into the water, and was nearly choked by the strap on his battle helmet when he plunged in. He surfaced to find the carrier's ten-thousand-ton bulk rolling to starboard, threatening to come down on top of him. He swam madly toward the stern and cleared the ship by the time it finally turned turtle, exhaled the last of the stale air from its compartments, and entered the formidable depths of the Philippine Sea.
And that, dear blog readers, is how you write about a man abandoning ship.
Stellar Writing
November 20, 2021 at 6:16 am	(Artists and Writers, Books, Recommended)
Tags: COVID Reading, Fridays, heroes, military history, The Philippines, US naval history, World War II
If James D. Hornfischer were still alive, I'd sign up for a master class. His command of his subject is total. He's traced the fates of each individual ship AND crew of Taffy 3 during the morning of Oct. 25, 1944 and it is incredible. I don't think I've every read anything like it. As the ships go down one by one, he shows you their fate, right down to the moment when the men slip into the water.
Chapter Thirty-Six: The Roberts Goes Down
In two hours of battle, Captain Copeland had steered his ship so adroitly that it avoided getting a single hit. When a blow finally landed, however (how long can a light destroyer keep a battleship at bay? Two hours is pretty good. You'd think help would be forthcoming from the other ships in Leyte Gulf, but no), other blows followed, in a quickening crescendo.
At the waterline, about two-thirds of the way to the stern on the port side, gaped a cavernous hole seven to ten feet high and some fifty feet long. The massive opening would have neatly garaged a semi trailer parked sideways. The number-two engine room was completely demolished. When the after fuel-oil tanks ruptured, they threw flaming oil everywhere.
As if to remind the skipper that life could get worse, a torpedo wake came bubbling in to starboard. There was no way to avoid it. As the faint white wake came straight on amidships, Copeland gripped the edge of the bridge wing and screamed, his voice cracking, "Stand by for tor — !" But one last miracle remained, it seemed. The torpedo passed just under the destroyer's escort's keel, missing, by the captain's estimation, by no more than a foot.
The USS Hoel
November 20, 2021 at 12:07 am	(Books, Recommended)
Tags: COVID Reading, Fridays, heroes, James D. Hornfischer, Leyte Gulf, military history, reading lists, The Philippines, US naval history
At 8:40 a.m., Commander Toshio Nakagawa wrote in his ship's log, "Cruiser blows up and sinks." This was in all probability the USS Hoel.
Six Japanese ships had cornered the Hoel and submitted her to barrage after barrage. "Boxed in by the enemy on three sides, the Hoel had no propulsive power to escape through the box's open bottom."
Chapter Thirty-Three is what happened to the men who were still alive on the Hoel when the ship sank.
At 8:35 a.m., Captain Kintberger ordered his men to abandon ship. The PA system was dead, so the order was given by word of mouth. Gunner's mate first class Willard Henn passed gunnery officer Lt. Bill Sanders tangled up in some rigging. Both his legs had been blown off at the knees but he was still alive. Henn made to help him but Sanders said no, the order was to abandon ship.
Eighteen-year-old Paul Miranda jumped into the water and belatedly realized that he didn't know how to swim. Everett Lindorff was "working the plotting table when the abandon ship order came," and was the last man to get out of the Hoel's CIC. Bob Wilson, machinist, had been wounded by shrapnel and could no longer walk. He crawled over the ship's side.
Lt. Jack Creamer, assistant gunnery officer, walked down the starboard side, helping survivors into life jackets. "All around the ship clusters of heads bobbed, survivors riding the slow, rolling swells. Creamer watched numbly as a Japanese salvo struck the sea a few hundred yards to starboard, right in the middle of a big gathering of wounded survivors."
Several of the men reported their last sight of Captain Kintberger standing on the bridge, watching as his men hit the water.
This chapter is very, very hard to read. But Hornfischer is relentless. This is only a little past the halfway point of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors.
The Last Run of the USS Heermann
November 19, 2021 at 6:10 pm	(Books, Recommended, Surprises)
Tags: COVID Reading, favorites, Fridays, heroes, James D. Hornfischer, Leyte Gulf, military history, reading lists, The Philippines, World War II
First of all, dear blog readers, self would like to introduce this post by saying that she grew up in the Philippines and attended the best schools that Filipino money could buy. And none of those schools taught World War II.
She never even heard of the Battle of Leyte Gulf until she began reading The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors. It took her going to the States, getting graduate degrees from Stanford, and becoming a US citizen before she had access to books about World War II.
That is why reading this book by James D. Hornfischer is such an incredible experience.
Her last post was about the fatally wounded Gambier Bay. The commander of Taffy 2, Admiral Stump, has just decided not to send any of his ships into the battle, as he sees it is lost. It is left to the commander of Taffy 3, Ziggy Sprague, to beg any carriers and cruisers nearby to come to the aid of Gambier Bay.
But none of the besieged carriers have any torpedoes left. There is one who responds, though: the Heermann. The Heermann's captain decides to bluff (he has no torpedoes either, but what the hey). Remember the Heermann almost crashed into an American destroyer, not once but three times? It happens again here, the Heermann nearly collides with the Fanshaw Bay. Nevertheless, collision is avoided, the Heermann builds up steam and continues towards the Gambier Bay, its gun boss, Lieutenant Meadors, keeping up "a steady cadence of fire all the way in." An eight-inch shot from a Japanese cruiser "ripped through the ship's bow, blowing a five-foot hole in the hull and flooding the forward magazines." Everyone in the pilothouse is killed. With chief quartermaster John P. Milley (Thank you, James D. Hornfischer, for giving us actual names instead of just saying "the chief quartermaster lay dead …") lying dead on the deck, "the wheel was abandoned."
A sailor named Harold Whitney grabs the wheel and tries to imitate what he's seen his skipper do so many times. Suddenly, he feels a tug on his pant leg and looks down. The chief quartermaster John P. Milley was alive! "I'll take it," Milley told Whitney. "But you're wounded," Whitney said. "I'll take it," was all Milley said again. Whitney surrendered the wheel.
9 a.m., 25 October 1944
November 19, 2021 at 4:28 pm	(Books, Conversations, Recommended)
Tags: COVID Reading, favorites, Fridays, heroes, James D. Hornfischer, Leyte Gulf, military history, reading lists, The Philippines, US naval history
Battle was joined at 7:30 a.m. Approximately one hour later, the USS Hoel was sunk, and the USS Johnston showed every sign of following.
End of Chapter Thirty-one:
As wicked as the crossfire was, a sight now commanded everyone's attention on the Johnston's bridge: an escort carrier, listing to port, dead in the water and taking heavy fire. It was the Gambier Bay. She had lost her boiler and could do only eleven knots.
Beginning of Chapter Thirty-two:
There was no telling how many ships had drawn a bead on her now. Under fire for nearly ninety minutes . . . the Gambier Bay took her first hit at 8:20 a.m., when a shell penetrated her forward engine room.
Ironically, this is when the first rescue ships sent by Admiral Stump arrive. The Gambier Bay's signal officer opens the shutters of his lamp and blinkers, We are under attack, please help.
The rescue ships turned and withdrew to the south. Admiral Stump "had decided against risking his most capable escorts in a dicey offensive action. If the Japanese destroyed Taffy 3 and continued south, he would need them for his own defense."
Edward Huxtable was commander of the Gambier Bay's air group, VC-10. Seeing "the carrier taking concentrated fire from Japanese cruisers . . . Huxtable turned, descended, and leveled off in a mock torpedo attack." Actually, he had taken off from the Gambier Bay in such a hurry that he had no time to load his bombs. "He made four" dummy runs, "each time . . . flying level with bomb bay doors open."

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When launching a business, it's easy to keep your head down for a long time.
Countless business owners and creatives talk about the "grind" - the endless, thankless work. The only focus is on growth and hitting higher numbers. The light on the other side seems so far away - and you're always painfully cognizant of the work it'll take to get there.
So you put your head down and hit the gas. Flash forward three months, six months, a year and you're still bent over your desk, burning the midnight oil.
A few months after I started working for myself full-time, I was right smack in the middle of that cycle. Last month's numbers were never good enough, so I kept on pushing and onboarding more clients and taking on more projects.
There's nothing wrong with driving hard toward a goal. The thing is, without an upward glance, it's hard to celebrate progress. "Success" becomes whatever the next checkpoint is, then the one after that. There's always something else to do. Some other task to accomplish, another project to write, a new client to onboard. Each milestone barely registers. It's always: What's next?
As creatives, we can be notoriously critical of ourselves. That's where the "what's next" mindset comes from. We're constantly driving, pushing forward, improving. There's always someone more successful whose work is more insightful, whose career is more lucrative.
The flipside of that coin is never being truly satisfied with where we are. If there's always more to do, or someone who's doing it better, how can we celebrate what we've done?
Two things happened in one week that made me stop and take a look around.
Until then, I viewed myself as a novice. And I am a novice. I've only been doing this for less than six months. But this teeny, tiny, simple thing made me think for the first time: I can do this. I am doing this.
I realized that it sometimes takes a little outside validation for us creatives to take notice of all we've accomplished while our heads were down.
A few days after that, I saw a post from someone celebrating his first month with over $3,000 in revenue. And I thought, "Hey! I've done that!" I knew I'd done that, but it never registered as a big accomplishment until I saw someone else hit that benchmark. Watching them celebrate that as a marker of success felt revolutionary.
Those two things forced me to grind to a screeching halt. Looking around, I saw not only how far I'd come personally, but the power of our little community. Even a small community of like-minded people can serve as a check against our own hustle and self-competition. Despite the cutthroat business and art world clichés, the success of others doesn't diminish our own success.
To me, it's the opposite. There's sanity in our collective mind. There's success in our shared success.
When I was first starting out, a fellow writer gave me some advice about goal-setting. Laying out small, achievable goals is one of the best ways to stay motivated, she said. Design your goals and celebrate every small step taken toward them. In fact, celebrate the crap out of it - it's the only way to keep yourself in check, stay motivated, and avoid burning out.
I didn't hit pause on any of these milestones, but I'm doing it now. And the best advice I can give to those who, like me, may not have come up for air in a while, is this: Stop. Take a breath. Look at all you've done.


Noisecreep recently told the story of Cloutier and his one-member metal band Davola. In his other metal project, Animus Rising, he doubled the personnel to two musicians -- the other being Jeremy Hinskton, who was living in Switzerland at the time. "You know that Jeremy and I hadn't met while making the record," Cloutier told Noisecreep. "But he decided to come back to America when I told him I was going to audio engineering school in Arizona. He followed my lead and we finally met in person on new years this year and are now classmates."
The story behind Animus Risings' origin are much like Davola's. Cloutier, not finding any like-minded individuals in his geographic locale, tried to generate professional interest online. He caught the attention of Hinskton, who was in a similar situation.
"[H]e hit me up after hearing my stuff and asked me if I wanted to sing on his song that he wrote and I agreed. I was surprised at how easy it was to come up with something vocally to complement what Jeremy had written. Long story short, we decided to keep writing together and we both discovered a crazy musical chemistry going on despite the fact that we were both in different countries trading files online."
Hinskton helped bring aboard members from California-area bands to help out, and he claimed to personally know Ill Niño. He said they would be willing to record the duo's EP. "I admit, I was pretty skeptical about that," Cloutier admits. "But Jeremy came from a pretty strong metal scene in California and not only did the guy seem to know everyone, he also reached out to everyone that he wanted to have on this project."
"So, when things were all set to record, Jeremy recorded bass and guitar tracks dry and sent that and all the MIDI for the drums ]all were programmed] to Cristian [Machado, singer] and Laz [Pina, bass] at their studio in Hoboken, NJ.
Hinskton recorded the bass and guitar tracks, and programmed the drums, then sent it to Christian and Laz [Ill Niño vocalist and bassist, respectively]. "All the tracks were re-amped and tweaked and were done by the time I headed down from New Hampshire to track vocals and lead guitar. The whole thing was pretty surreal for me and it was an honor working with Cristian and Laz. Great dudes and great at what they do. It was pretty funny when they asked me where I knew Jeremy from and when I met him. I remember saying, 'Um .... actually, I haven't yet.'"
The result was s four-song release by Animus Rising, which is currently for sale on iTunes. Though they have no shows currently scheduled, the duo will record more songs to make a proper full-length and will recruit more members for live performances.