One of my first clients was proud of his spreadsheet.
Massive thing. Hundreds of tabs. Colour-coded. Formulas nested inside formulas. He’d built the entire accounting and finance function of his business inside this beast.
No bookkeeper. No finance manager. No external accountant touching the day-to-day. Just him, his spreadsheet, and the quiet satisfaction of knowing he wasn’t wasting money on staff.
“I’ve saved a fortune doing this myself,” he told me. Chest puffed. Grin wide.
Then we started digging.
Took about two weeks to find it. Buried in the chaos of his masterpiece was a folder of invoices that had never been sent. Jobs completed. Clients happy. Money owed.
Over $100,000. Just sitting there. Forgotten.
He’d been so busy building his clever system and so determined to save on headcount that he’d missed the most basic function of a finance operation: collecting the money people owed him.
A proper team would have caught it in a week. A decent system would have flagged it automatically. But he was saving money. Remember?
This is the lie that keeps owners trapped:
“I can’t afford to hire the right people.”
What they really mean is: “I’d rather do it myself because it feels like control.”
But control isn’t free. It costs you in missed invoices. In errors nobody catches. In opportunities that slip by while you’re buried in spreadsheets that aren’t your job.
The question isn’t “can I afford to hire?” The question is “what’s it costing me not to?”
Sometimes the answer is six figures sitting in a folder nobody opened.
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