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Hey, what's up, Chris Gillabo here. Your host of Side Usal School, the daily podcast about making

extra money without quitting your job. Of course, daily podcast means seven days a week. Every

day we have a new episode featuring questions and answers, case studies, archival reports,

field reports, not sure what the difference is there, but basically reports from people

on the front lines with their success stories. And sometimes, in fact, every Friday, a report

of something that doesn't go so well. We call this failure Friday. It is about mistakes,

missteps, disasters, and of course, failure. You get to hear directly from a Side Usal

who has struggled to get something off the ground or otherwise had one of those big mistakes

or disasters. Okay, so today kind of falls into both categories. Mistake and disaster, at least

it's a big mistake. This short story features Sherry. So Sherry is a new freelance bookkeeper.

She's excited about her new business. She is recruiting clients, just trying to scale

up a bit. And she makes a big mistake, speaking of scale. She makes a mistake that is quite

scaled, I guess. Well, basically what she does is she overstates the income on a client's

return, a client's tax return. So this is a big problem, right? Because if you say somebody

makes a lot more money than they did, then they're going to owe a lot more tax than they

expected. So not a good thing to experience as a small business owner or as the bookkeeper

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