Narrative
The trigger for a is not a magic income number, it is when money starts arriving from several directions at once.
Picture a mid-career client whose second album has done well: , a , touring, a growing Patreon. There is a manager. There is a lawyer. But no one is actually looking after the books.
An accountant filing a tax return once a year is not the same thing. The work of this episode is recognising when that gap matters, and what a business manager is for.