An article, written by Rupert Merson, posed the question “when is it right for a young business to recruit a finance director?”Like Rupert, I believe that upon appointing their first finance director, an entrepreneur will realise that they are running ‘the’ business, rather than ‘my’ business. It is a time when they ‘grow up’ and realise that for their success to be sustainable, they need to be willing to share responsibility for the big decisions.

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