Profit and Loss

     Last week, we just started our lessons in Business Math.  For me, I consider this subject valuable not only because it is required to be tackled at school but for the reason that I'm planning to start my own business in the future.  Yes, building up my own business has been part of the list in my life goals.  And if I want to become successful with it, I would definitely make use of my learnings from school.

     Back to the topic; the first lesson we were taught was about profit and loss.  If you may be aware of it or not, knowing of the profit and loss is very crucial when it comes to business.  That is why business owners either have book keepers (for small businesses) or accountants (for big corporations) by their sides.  It is so that they are always informed of how their company is faring compared to competitors.  With this they become conscious of the market changes and sudden complications that may affect their company.

     As far as I remember, crunching numbers or adoring them at some certain point has never lingered in my everyday school life.  But back in high school, I have to admit (even if I'm not one of the smartest in math subjects) that I also enjoyed dealing with formulas and solving problems.  It is not my strong point in mathematics, but I always liked the challenge of analyzing problems.
     I had difficulties with it though, but I would never admit it to myself.  But now that I'm in college and my course does not "actually" include math subjects on a quarterly basis, I would surely want to be good at what I am supposed to learn.