Most entrepreneurs don’t start a business because they love debits, credits, or month‑end closes. They start because they have a product, a vision, or a market opportunity. Accounting feels like a chore, something to outsource, delegate, and never think about again. And that’s exactly where things go wrong, outsourcing doesn’t remove responsibility, it increases the need for collaboration. I’ve worked with too many companies where the financials were unusable. Not because the