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title: Starting A Business? Did You Forget Your Insurance?
description: "When starting your own business, ensure you add insurance to your checklist and your accounting spreadsheets: it’s a necessary cost of doing business."
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# [Starting A Business? Did You Forget Your Insurance?](https://www.imalia.com.au/our-voice/starting-a-business-did-you-forget-your-insurance)

 Written by [Carole-Anne Priest](https://www.imalia.com.au/our-voice/author/carole-anne-priest) | 05-Jul-2017 05:59:26

**When you’re starting a business, the checklist is familiar and well-worn.**  
**World-beating idea: check. **  
**Finance and line of credit: check. **  
**Office or factory premises rented: check. **  
**Professional advisers hired: check. **  
**Insurance cover: check. **  
**Except, perhaps, for that last item.**

In the excitement (and anxiety) of conceiving and creating a new business, entrepreneurs are busy, tired, distracted and, if we’re honest, believe they are bulletproof. 

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