Author Archive for Barbara
Posted on March 30th, 2008 by Barbara
Something they teach you in business school (and should do in high school) is basic financial accounting. Something else they teach you in business school is managerial accounting. These two topics are related like competitive and social Magic the Gathering. One emphasizes the rules, while the other emphasizes the story, but they’re both based on [...]
Tags: accounting, advice, business, entrepreneurship
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Posted on March 23rd, 2008 by Barbara
One of the themes of Not An Employee is collaboration. Here we’ve created a little website and a small business run by people who have never once sat down and said “Ok, we’re going to start a business and have a website and Laura will design it and Barbara will handle the paperwork and Brian [...]
Tags: collaboration, ideas, questions
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Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Barbara
One of the events that lead to the formalization of Not An Employee was the threatened, enacted, and then rescinded sales tax on services in the state of Michigan. Some of us were expected to charge sales tax on some services (like graphic design) and not others (web design). (Or perhaps more interestingly, on phrenology [...]
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