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Making mistakes with your accounting can lead to more than just embarrassing situations when checks bounce or you make collection calls to customers and clients who have already paid you.

People make errors. Banks make errors. That's why we compare our checkbooks with our bank statements, just in case someone added a figure wrong. It's even more important for your business than your ...