Funmilola Amusan

I keep the financial side of Team Darphiz: the accounts, the invoicing, and the records that show what came in and what went out on each project.

The reason that work matters is simple. A business owner eventually asks whether a piece of software was worth building. The only honest answer comes from accurate records, and those records only exist if someone is careful with them from the first day.

Accounting

I am working towards my qualification with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, and I have passed the ICAN Foundation examination. I have worked through the Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting published by Deloitte, and I spend regular time on financial reporting standards and double-entry bookkeeping.

Most of what I study turns out to be useful in places nobody warns you about. The rules on when ownership of goods passes from seller to buyer, for instance, decide who carries the loss when something goes wrong in transit. That is not an exam question, it is a Tuesday.

Data

I am building practical data analysis skills through Cisco Networking Academy, working with spreadsheets, formulas, functions, and imported data.

Reading a figure and knowing why it is wrong are the same skill. When a client asks what an automated system has saved them, the answer is in the numbers, and someone has to be able to check them.

I studied at the Federal University Oye-Ekiti.