10.  You’re keeping track of the ‘real’ numbers on a yellow pad.

 9.      Your financial reports just keep getting longer.

 8.      You’ve decided your particular business is just too unusual for your accounting program.

 7.      You still have an Opening Balance Equity and it keeps changing.

 6.      You trust statements you get from others more than your own.

 5.      You’ve learned to just ignore all those funny little balances that keep popping up.

 4.      You’ve become an expert at averaging out report totals to divine the probable truth.

 3.      You only use the accounting program for data entry and have the important reports prepared separately.

 2.      Your banker didn’t seem to take you seriously once he looked over your financials.

 1.      You’re amazed at how few questions your tax preparer had and figure you must be doing things better than you thought.  

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