Carriage Trade
“she is saying to him. “And it certainly has a unique bookkeeping system.” Miranda and Peter are seated on the long white sofa in the living room of her apartment at 11 East 66th Street, with the big open carton on the cushion between them. A pencil perches in Miranda’s hair. “I spent an hour and a half on the telephone with Tommy Bonham this afternoon, while he tried to explain his so-called system to me, and he still insists that everything that pertains to the store’s business is right here i...n this box.”
“What a mess!”
“Since you’ve already got your M.B.A., and it’ll be years before I get mine, I thought maybe you could help me make some sense out of all this,” she says. “But let me tell you what I’ve figured out so far. To begin with, there are lots of different bank accounts; I’ve counted seventeen. There are a lot of checks that Tommy seems to have written to himself, marked Expenses or Operating Cash. These aren’t for large amounts—a hundred dollars here, two hundred there—so I don’t know if there’s any point in questioning him on those.MoreLess
“What a mess!”
“Since you’ve already got your M.B.A., and it’ll be years before I get mine, I thought maybe you could help me make some sense out of all this,” she says. “But let me tell you what I’ve figured out so far. To begin with, there are lots of different bank accounts; I’ve counted seventeen. There are a lot of checks that Tommy seems to have written to himself, marked Expenses or Operating Cash. These aren’t for large amounts—a hundred dollars here, two hundred there—so I don’t know if there’s any point in questioning him on those.MoreLess
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