Denise Bentinck: Advising small business owners of the virtues of record-keeping

Denise Bentinck

Owners of small businesses in Guyana frown on record-keeping mostly because many don’t pay taxes even though they understand the importance of having their records up to date, according to University of Guyana part-time lecturer and business trainer Denise Bentinck

“In Guyana people involved in small business have a practice of not wanting to keep records and instead they commit information to their heads,” Bentinck told Sunday Stabroek in a recent interview.

Bentinck, who has had many years in business administration and helped in capacity building with small farmers,