Business is work, risk, and numbers learning to live on a page together. That is what I am trying to teach the three of them. Most people think profit and loss belongs to merchants and shipowners. They picture crates in a warehouse, fees at the dock, wages in calloused hands. That is part of it. A ledger can tell me whether my warehouse in Skelderheim is carrying its own weight or quietly sinking under the cost of rope, wages, and lamp oil. Without that, I would only be guessing, the same way a fisherman who never counts his fuel or Continue reading
