What's the most amount of $$ you ever dropped/lost/misplaced??

[ieoeja]

70. I've made millions of dollars in errors on several occasions.

But then, I'm in IT, not accounting. Computers are great for screwing things up. Of course, we can fix everything too because it is all virtual money.

Actually, we have this one error that runs into thousands of billions. But it is a credit error with offsetting debit error. Nobody can see it on the front end. And it is for internal strategic reporting only, i.e. an aid in decision making, not in actual accounting. So we ignore it.

On the flip side my first job was with the Veteran's Administration where one afternoon they decided to right off $7M because of accounting errors in the San Francisco office. I spent a couple hours tooling with the problem on the computer and was able to recover $4M of what they were going to write off. Had I stayed with the VA, I would have earned my paycheck for life in those two hours.

I think I was making $17K a year at that time.