> This is why I always say that the first thing your business should pay for is an accountant. For my company (which we started up only 5 months ago), we hired

> This is why I always say that the first thing your business should pay for is an accountant. For my company (which we started up only 5 months ago), we hired an accountant in the first week. He saved us 3x his 1 year cost in the first 5 minutes. How I wish we had hired him before we started the business. He could have saved us about the same again. If you are ever even thinking of starting a company, follow this advice. The accountant is the very first person I would talk to. It's amazing the pitfalls you can get into even when you are being relatively careful (as we were).