CHAPTER 20
Aunty Nan’s guide to keeping your books
Most entrepreneurs are terrible at keeping track of their finances. Good entrepreneurship is about starting new ideas, big-picture stuff. Good book-keeping is about fine detail, and making sure everything tallies.
But you need both in a business. While well-kept accounts will not make you a success, giving them little or no attention can bring down an otherwise successful business.
We were very lucky in our early days to find a brilliant book-keeper – Aunty Nan – who has been keeping books all her life. This section is put together in the ...
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