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Everything is Shrinkflating These Days, Even the Number of Elijah Watt Sells Award Winners
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Starbucks Kills Off Its Automated Counting AI Tool After Just 9 Months Because It Sucked at Counting Beans
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EY Gets Busted and Yeets Cybersecurity Report Littered With AI Hallucinations
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KPMG Plans to Hand Routine Testing Off to AI
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Hope that accountant billed double for having to deal with this on a weekend
Big glass of cold water thrown in my face.
Found an error in our financial projections late last night. Accountant was offline. Asked Claude to model the impact on revenue, cash, and EBITDA.
It gave me a catastrophic answer. And was so damn confident about it.
I legit spiraled
Leave it to accountants to have a conference on a weekend to talk about working smarter, not harder.
Here Are Tax and Audit Salaries at Top 25, Top 300, and Regional Firms
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Accounting Firm Abruptly Nopes Out of Tax Season Early (UPDATE)
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This Deloitte Office Has Eliminated Trash Cans at Desks to Make Staff Get Up Off Their Asses
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Don’t Grow Your Accounting Firm Out of Business! Break Up With These Unscalable Practices Now
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Accounting News Roundup: Buffett’s ‘Sacrifice’; Groupon’s Slump; PwC’s German, Dutch Firms Merging | 05.07.12
Buffett Defends His Tax View [WSJ]The meeting was Berkshire's first since Mr. Buffett made headlines […]
Memo to The New York Times: The Tax Shaming Has Gotten Old
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California CPA Under the Impression That CPA Exam Is Still an Infernal, Multi-day Event That Drives You to Drink
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Perhaps Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Should Start Sending His Résumé* to Accounting Firms
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Accounting News Roundup: Ernst & Young Cuts Out Lobbying for Big Audit Clients; The U.S. Tax System – Fair?; IRS Missed Some NFPs | 05.04.12
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Auditing in China Sounds Like Pure Hell
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Sometimes an Accounting Degree Just Isn’t Enough
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Is the Next Wave of Auditor Resignations Coming?
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Serious Question: Why Did You Become an Accountant?
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Accounting News Roundup: Romney’s Shifty Tax Goals; The Accidental Accountant-Terrorist; Diversity’s Payoff | 05.03.12
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