Name Quentin Pain | ||
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Quentin Pain FIoEE FIAB (British, b.1956) is a published author, speaker and entrepreneur.
Pain was a founder member of Accountz.com Ltd (a British software company)
Pain wrote Prophet, which won the Acorn User Best Business Software Award for 1995 and 1996. This was used to help launch the Acorn A4000 in New Zealand.
Pain is also the author of the book Accounting For Everyone, which was notable as the first book to change the way people think about double-entry and provides the online course Accounting For Everyone.
The core changes to double-entry described in the book are:
- The replacement of the terms credit and debit with the terms from and to
- Entering the credited or debited account in the credit or debit columns (as opposed to the amount)
- Reversing the order of those columns
These changes simplify the double-entry process
Pain together with two co-authors, David Bradforth and John Taylor wrote the book Home Accountz for Dummies for the American publishers John Wiley & Sons.
Pain self published his first book on business principles entitled Legendary in October 2015 through publishers CreateSpace.
Pain has appeared in numerous publications including The Independent, The Sunday Times, MoneyWeek and the Financial Times.
Pain wrote and self published the book Step by Step Marketing in 2013 telling the story of how he grew the software company Accountz.com Ltd.
Pain named in the top 10 of business advisers in the UK in 2015 by a panel of judges including Emma Jones MBE and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Pain was nominated for the International Association of Book-keepers Small Business Mentor of the Year award and won the award on 21 June 2013.