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OriginalGriff wrote: he may be able to get away with starting off in Excel - I've done it before and
it works well for a small business - then migrating
You are evil! To many business processes are started out that way, and end up in a mess.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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When you start up a small business, you have generally got far, far too much to do anyway, and the number of transactions you will be dealing with is tiny! There is little point in trying to get your head around how accountants think if that takes a couple of days out of you actually earning in the early days. When the transactions pick up, generally the work load drops as well because you have worked out the procedures in the rest of the company to make it get easier. At that point you have a little time (and a better feel for what the company actually needs) to look at getting the right package in and learning it, but you already have the data in a comprehensible format ready to enter - rather than a pile of invoices and electronic check stubs and no idea what goes where!
Starting out with something you know already isn't evil, it pragmatic: provided you intend to do it properly later when you know more about what you are trying to do. 
When I took over the MDship of my first company, I inherited a paper system involving piles: "here's a invoice, I'll put it on that pile of paper" then every year all the piles were dumped in a box and handed to the accountant! So the first thing I did was use Excel to track invoices against payments, and start some elementary reports. Since I only did basic accounting at school, I had no idea what I would have needed and would have wasted a lot of time on the wrong package. Excel was fine for a while, and showed me how complex the job I needed to do on a daily or weekly basis was - not very, if you did it on the day!
How far was I out? Under a quid for the year according to the VAT inspector (and our accountant bills became a damn sight smaller, too).
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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-£500 on the creditors list is bigger than £300 on the debtors.
High Negative G Force could kill you quicker than a low Positive G.
Is -15 metres near the surface than +2 metres?
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those do not make sense, whilst the effects differ the amounts are still LESS, just because a low amount of something is undesirable/dangerous does not make that number more
#1 surely if its negative on one list and possitive on the other then the number is either -500 and - 300 or +500 and +300 when like to like is compared (I maybe wrong I know accountants do bend reality when playing with numbers)
#2 no, high negative g is still less than low positive g what the effect is of that on a body is irrelavent
# no, -15 is further away than + 2 isnt that obvious, if not turn it sideways, is a point 15 meters to the left closer that one 2 meters to the right?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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It appears that Daleks get the meanings of "negative" mixed up.
It's like when idiots say that passive voice should be avoided.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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probably an accounting thing +- being interchangable, it would explain the financial colapse
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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That certainly seems to be the case.
If someone owes me money, but I know he will never be able to pay it back, I treat it as a bad debt.
Apparently, if thousands and thousands of people are stupidly lent money they will never be able to repay, accountants and financial experts call that a good (Triple-A) investment.
Mind you, they're probably right, because a lot of them got stinking rich while everyone else was losing their jobs, homes, and futures.
One of the major functions of capitalism appears to be that of forcing people to embrace the principles of socialism, just to overthrow the fat-cat b@st@rds and install a more equitable/egalitarian society.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Nice one Mark... LOL! 
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Different countries have different tax and accounting laws.
I wouldn't take advice from a non Spaniard on this subject. (or is it even a non Catalan?  )
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln
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Spain and Catalonia are still using the same methods and ways to do things... Catalans are still Spaniards, who knows what will happen this next year...
We still don't know if we will be allowed to vote or not... 
Anyway, I can use anything that fits the Spanish market...
Thank you! 
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Not sure if Mint.com is applicable to him.
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Who knows, I'll check it though. Thank you Bassam!
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Finish this sentence:
It was a bright cold day in April
Not too hard, but plenty of chances for all you punsters 
Life is too shor
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Me = NotAHorse
Me = Me + AndNotThirsty
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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... and the clocks were striking thirteen
Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!
Dogs are man's best Friend,
Cats are man's adorable little serial killer
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Mendor81 wrote: ... and the clocks were striking thirteen
Indeed they were. 
Life is too shor
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... So I went to see her sister.
speramus in juniperus
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What's so special about ten million?
A bunch of zeros?
Why should all the other numbers be made to feel unimportant?
Every number is special, in its own way.
Now everyone join hands and sing.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Every number is special, in its own way.
12407 isn't very interesting.
Although, ironically, it is the lowest number that isn't interesting.
Which is interesting.
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Dalek Dave wrote: Although, ironically, it is the lowest number that isn't interesting.
That's not quite right. Not all negative numbers are interesting.
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Just because it is a negative number does not make it lower.
The cardinality is unaffected by being negative for example.
Now, write out the first 30 happy squares and promise to read up on set theory
BTW did you know you cannot construct a square with the same area as a circle.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: Just because it is a negative number does not make it lower.
I've changed my mind.
I'll do my own tax return, thanks.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Dalek Dave wrote: did you know you cannot construct a square with the same area as a circle.
Hwuh?
That flew past me on the first read.
For any value of r, you can construct a square that is pi.r on a side, giving it precisely the same area as a circle with radius r.
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Good luck with that.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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