> “Can we get away with just doing this in a spreadsheet?” he said.
Realistically you can do pretty much everything a startup or small business needs in a spreadsheet. Buying specialized software at that scale is a nice to have.
Realistically you can do pretty much everything a startup or small business needs in a spreadsheet. Buying specialized software at that scale is a nice to have.
This is kinda opposite of old thrifty lifestyle: starting up early, making own coffee, doing speadsheets and all.
It is just latte. Also you do not need to start early just to make <whatever> coffee.
> It is just latte.
Maybe you deserve Ferrari. However for lot of us, "deserve" is used for innumerable trivial/unnecessary things in life.
Yesterday I discovered my personal finances spreadsheet was giving me a total that was wrong by about 10% because I'd forgotten to update which fields it was summing over. Nothing relied on this sum so no harm done this time, but oh boy do I have slightly[0] more sympathy for the news stories where billionaires accidentally loose track of one hundred million.
Get proper accountancy software if it's important; a spreadsheet will lead to tears.
[0] but only when they're being asked about some asset by a journalist or on twitter etc. and not when they make this mistake on taxes, because they should be getting professional help with taxes well before becoming a billionaire.
The irony being that once you reach a certain scale, the accountant you hire will be using... a spreadsheet.