The Dangers of Disparate Documents
A short post on organization and writing.
Say that you're a realtor. You keep separate spreadsheets for travel expenses, marketing expenses, houses sold, current listings, current and previous clients, commissions paid, and the like. Every year, you spend dozens of hours cobbling together these documents to satisfy your accountant.
What are the odds that you stick the landing?
The correct answer is not high. Even if you do magically thread the needle, you've doubtless wasted oodles of time resolving errors, tracking down receipts, removing duplicate entries, and the like. I'll also bet that you paid your accountant more than you should have.
One would hope that realtors would use a system to make their lives less chaotic. Ideally, a few irritated clients or colleagues would provide the requisite motivation to get their houses in order (pun intended).
