by Denise David Baer
Like many small business owners, we
have several cardboard file boxes that we
use to stash old paperwork. In addition
to boxes of tax records that we can't toss
out for umpteen years in case of an IRS
audit and documentation from really
important jobs, we have one particular
box that holds the records of our "job
from hell." The box weighs 65 pounds
(no joke), and that doesn't include oversized
drawings and photos. Years from
now, someone with a head for numbers
and time to spare could piece together
the entire ordeal by going through the
thousands of pieces of paper in that box.
But the contents wouldn't begin to tell
the