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Which, if true, only further demonstrates the nonsense that is modern accounting practice.



Huh? Why? It's your money. If you wind down your business and settle all your outstanding transactions --- which, if you're honest, you should be able to do --- the state hands it right back to you. Not only that, but you get to collect the interest on the money. It's a bond, not a fee. Why wouldn't it be listed among your assets? It's part of the liquidation value of your business!


it's part of preventing small fry from getting in.

you could easily base the bond on volume.

the more transactions you do the more you must put in bond.

this again perpetuates the unnecessary division between individual and institution.




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