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5 Reasons People Struggle With Financial Reports

Do your eyes glaze over when you look at financial reports? Mine do - and I've seen it happen with lots of other people. I've talked about this with both 'producers' of reports (FDs, CFOs, accountants etc.) and 'consumers' (Owners,…

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Six Steps to Better Financial Reports – Overview

In this series of blogs I'm going to discuss the financial reporting workflow in SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises). I'm doing so as an entrepreneur, so I'll be focusing on business issues, not technicalities. I'm not an accountant. But I've…

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Are You an Alien, an Accountant, or Both?

One of the fundamental challenges in understanding financial reports is the numbers! Sure, we can pick out a value from a table. We can find the a column, run our eyes (or finger) down it to a row that interests…

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Numerable: The Story So Far

Accounting is often described as 'the language of business'. Unfortunately most of us are not fluent in it. I've been a tech entrepreneur for over 30 years, so I've attended hundreds of SME board meetings. Some were for my own…

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