Money, Pricing & Model
Startup finance & accounting
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What's the difference between revenue, profit, and cash in the bank, and why did my accountant say I'm profitable when my account is nearly empty?
Profit is an accounting statement (revenue minus expenses on paper), while cash is what's actually in your account right now, and they diverge when...
What are the most expensive accounting and finance mistakes early founders make that only show up a year later?
The classics: commingling personal and business money, missing GST or TDS deadlines, treating GST collected as your own cash, undocumented cofounde...
How do I handle money and invoicing when my customers are abroad but my company is registered in India?
Cross-border revenue adds FEMA rules, foreign inward remittance certificates (FIRC), export-of-services GST treatment, and currency conversion into...
Do I need to understand accrual accounting and things like deferred revenue, or is cash-basis enough for a SaaS just starting out?
Cash-basis is simpler and fine for very early days, but the moment you sell annual SaaS plans, cash-basis lies to you: a year of prepaid revenue lo...