10-10 Shoe Dog 1965

作者开始自己的创业,但那个年代没有净资产要向银行贷款是十分困难的,营业额增加反而让对应的银行代理人心慌。因为下一次他将贷更多的钱。在这样的压力下他渐渐感觉撑不住了。拿到会计师证后又到事务所工作。

这要是在现在,只要做好自己创业的presentation,加上不断翻倍的销售额,大把的vc都来投资了。

看到书里反复提到的“净资产”概念,把书架上关于财务的书都翻了翻。看了书以后才发现以前看的时候那些别扭的变动成本,制造费用等概念,在实际接触以后确实清晰了很多。原来公司里制作利润表的方法就是管理会计的做法。就像作者说的分析数字其实是一门艺术,从数字中可以看到这个企业的走向,成败。我才突然意识到财务的意义,审计的意义。从数字洞察企业的内部。

1.While auditing these companies, digging into their guts, taking them apart and putting them back together, I was also learning how they survived, or didn't. How they sold things or didn't. How they got into trouble, how they got out. I took careful notes about what made companies tick, what made them fail.

在对各类公司进行审计,探索其内在问题,分类再综合时,我也了解到不同公司是如何存活或淘汰的,公司是如何让产品畅销或滞销的,公司是如何卷入困境,又如何摆脱困境的。我仔细记录着公司的成功秘诀和失败原因。

这一段词描述审计的作用,用的都是简单的词,动词短语。

2.I tell the man Blue Ribbon is sinking like the titanic, and he responds by begging for a berth in the first class.

形象的比喻,可以用来描述迅速陨落的公司或行业,比如出版业。

Publishing industry is sinking like Titanic.

3. Johnson just didn't strike me as a people person.

Johnson 看起来根本不是那种善于社交的人。people还可以作为形容词

4 我保持沉默 I  held my tongue

5 随心所欲做我想做的事情。 I‘d do exactly as I pleased.

6 As ever, the accountant in me saw the risk, the entrepreneur saw the possibility.

7.life is growth. Business is growth. You grow or you die.

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