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Amateur Accountants Need Not Apply

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Caleb Newquist

“It is the last part of the business I would hand over to someone who is less than qualified.”

~ Barbara Taylor, co-founder of Synergy Business Services, on the accounting function.

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