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tax season memo from staff to managing partner

what if your staff didn’t write this email?

by hitendra patil

congratulations if your staff wrote such an email to you. (but what if they wanted to and didn’t?)

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dear [managing partner’s name],

as we start thinking about the next tax season, i am reaching out with a request that reflects the sentiment of many of us in the firm. i know tax season is crucial, and we all understand its importance. however, after all these years, we’re in a never-ending marathon. the long hours, the constant pressure—it’s draining. what if we could flip the script this year and make the next tax season, dare i say, a little less soul-crushing?

i have a few ideas—some might seem unconventional, but we must get creative to avoid the same burnout cycles. hear me out, in no particular order: read more →

advisory & consulting

cas clients are ‘stickier’

businessman looking at question mark sketch on the wall

they’re more loyal and buy more services. what’s not to like?

by hitendra patil
client accounting services: the definitive success guide

client accounting services (cas) is the new revenue segment you cannot afford to miss.

if you are an accounting firm owner/partner, you do not want to miss the emerging, growing and profitable opportunities in client accounting services.

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before we get to why, to ensure that we are on the same page, let us agree on a description of what cas is.
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advisory & consulting

four ingredients to your cas ‘why’

learn what will resonate with your prospects.

by hitendra patil
client accounting services: the definitive success guide

“why did i start my accounting firm/practice?”

if you are the owner of your firm, print this in a bold, big font and post it somewhere in such a way that you can see it, even if it is just in your peripheral vision, every moment when you are working at your desk.

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if you are a partner of the firm or an employee, print the following question to post it where you can see it all the time:

“why did i get into the accounting profession?”
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advisory & consulting

do you have the client accounting services mindset?

you’re the professional. ponder that a moment.

by hitendra patil
client accounting services: the definitive success guide

it was the 10th of may, 2012.

over dinner on that quiet mid-spring evening, at a classic traditional italian restaurant, i met the owner of one of my largest clients, only after about five years of providing services to his firm. his firm had chosen a particular niche industry to serve and only that. he was doing well – over $3.5 million in annual revenue, growing consistently, and employing 39 staff members. in any given week, two new clients were being onboarded via a very detailed process, moving clients’ accounting databases and processes into his firm.

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he would not take on any new client unless the client handed over all of the accounting work responsibilities to the firm.

all or none.
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management

olympics of outsourcing and offshoring for accountants

the only difference is it’s not a once in four years event.

by hitendra patil

 the olympic games are the epitome of human achievement. the best athletes in the world come together to compete for the ultimate coveted glory. the accounting profession is no different in its competitive spirit and quest for excellence.

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outsourcing and offshoring have emerged as a necessary remedy to overcome the challenges of the accounting talent shortage. accounting firms leveraging outsourcing and offshoring are like the athletes excelling at the olympics. like the olympics, accounting firms need rigorous preparation, strategic planning, and meticulous execution to succeed with outsourcing and offshoring. let us dive into the comparison between the olympics and outsourcing/offshoring strategies. let us see how accounting firms can assure gold-medalist performance in the olympics of outsourcing and offshoring.

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turnover timebomb: 4 of 5 senior managers at risk

and seven ways to overcome staffing issues.

by hitendra patil

the talent crisis in the accounting profession has been relentless, and it now seems that the staffing issues are moving up the ladder.

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the preliminary results of the inaugural accountants professional satisfaction survey show nearly two in five directors and senior managers at accounting firms report dissatisfaction. only one in four seniors are highly satisfied. on the other hand, one in three managers are dissatisfied at their firms, and only 17 percent are highly satisfied.

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do you focus on data or decisions?

the difference defines your work future in the ai world.

by hitendra patil
rise of the aiccountants

imagine there is no artificial intelligence.

i know it is tough to imagine this, but for the next two minutes, just imagine there is no ai.

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how have you been working as an accounting professional without ai so far?
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what could accounting-specific ai bring?

 

new tools are being built for finance. how can accountants best leverage them?

by hitendra patil
rise of the aiccountants

bloomberg released a research paper detailing the development of bloomberggpt, a new large-scale generative artificial intelligence (ai) specifically trained on a wide range of financial data to support diverse natural language processing (nlp) tasks within the financial industry.

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according to bloomberg, “the team pulled from this extensive archive of financial data to create a comprehensive 363 billion token dataset consisting of english financial documents. this data was augmented with a 345 billion token public dataset to create a large training corpus with over 700 billion tokens. using a portion of this training corpus, the team trained a 50-billion parameter decoder-only causal language model.”

imagine how long it will take for a human being to grasp that volume of data!
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how to use the three types of artificial intelligence

your firm will need to redefine its processes.

by hitendra patil
rise of the aiccountants

artificial intelligence (ai) is a rage worldwide now, and accountants are racing ahead to test/try out publicly available ai tools. ai-powered tools can potentially automate tasks outside the purview of the software solutions created by programmers. ai also has the potential to help accountants to better understand and analyze data, which is essential for helping their clients, and accountants themselves make better informed business decisions.

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all of you (almost) have already tried chatgpt. but it is just one type of ai – a generative, large language model (llm). as it is “language”-based, it can, right now, quickly help accountants enhance marketing and client communications.
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client accounting services

ai means clients need you more than ever

businesswoman in wheelchair meeting with potential client

four ways to prepare.

by hitendra patil
rise of the aiccountants

we have discussed that ai-powered functions will become more potent with time. it will not feel like an overnight apocalypse, provided you are keeping yourself abreast of the progress of artificial intelligence in the accounting profession.

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but how exactly can you prepare for the era when ai metamorphoses your work?

before entering the new ai-powered era, let us figure out what is happening now.
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seven changes ai brings to accounting

look at the future that lies beyond the hype.

by hitendra patil
rise of the aiccountants

accounting, as it existed until now, is ripe for a makeover.

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this is not a doomsday prediction for the accounting profession. on the contrary, it is just a confirmation of the golden era of accounting that is about to come.

and artificial intelligence will be the driver leading the metamorphosis.
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humans beat ai in some aspects

… but not all. what that means for the profession.

by hitendra patil
rise of the aiccountants

a research study by the american accounting association evaluated the performance of chatgpt on accounting-specific content.

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the study was conducted by a team of 327 coauthors from 186 educational institutions worldwide, who entered 25,817 assessment questions and evaluated the accuracy of chatgpt’s responses.
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why accountants should embrace artificial intelligence

ai didn’t cause the talent shortage … and it won’t solve it, either.

by hitendra patil
client accounting services: the definitive success guide

  1. artificial intelligence says, “it’s essential to recognize that the talent shortage in the accounting profession is not a new problem. the profession has been facing challenges in attracting and retaining talent for many years, with factors such as increasing workloads, long hours and a lack of work-life balance contributing to the problem. addressing these issues is crucial to ensuring the profession’s continued success.”

wait. don’t believe ai at face value.

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  1. because ai also says, “an important factor (why ai cannot easily replace accountants) that cannot be overlooked is the significant role that trust plays in the accounting profession.”

wait. don’t trust ai at face value.
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