Accountants are not normally seen as essential for a start-up. In fact, a lot of the newer entrepreneurs I help out often see accountants as superfluous. They’ll say that maybe when their company grows and proves successful they’ll contract a firm, but when they are first starting out they feel too small to make it worth paying an accountant. However, I still typically try and push new entrepreneurs to look into getting an accountant as, according to a 2013 Sage Survey, most