What do you do in this case?
A client provides a list of categorized expenses, but provides no total gross proceeds number.
Instead, they give you several 1099s only.
I personally will not accept this because I have no way to know if:
1) There is any cash income
2) There is any income that has not been reported on a 1099 (either less than $600 or no 1099 provided as is sometimes the case with s and c corps)
3) If there is additional co-pay income
4) If there is additional income form the sale of products such as supplements for a chiropractor, just for example
5) I am not engaged for bookkeeping with the client and I do not verify or reconcile their proceeds via bank statements
6) I have no way to know if the 1099s are correct, complete, or have been corrected
I email the client with a quick and polite canned response explaining why I can't simply add them up and include my own result, and I ask them to provide "one" total gross proceeds number for the activity.
Do you think I am being a PITA? Too careful?