gen ai in accounting: epic transformation, or overheated hype?

cornerstone report: artificial intelligence 2024

accountants embrace ai. via moss adams

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insights and implications

i. at a glance

  • impact: gauging the influence of generative ai on the accounting industry.
  • consequences: the new shape of accounting practices.
  • strategies: for accounting firms, regulatory bodies, and educational institutions.

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eight questions that target personal accountability

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what are you selling on?

by martin bissett
business development on a budget

the secret to overcoming failure to correctly implement a successful business development strategy is by “winning your first client” and this starts by being accountable to someone for your performance.

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now that “someone” may be your fellow partners in the firm. if you are a senior manager, that may be the partner to whom you report.
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two options for collecting past due fees

you can do more work, but under certain conditions.

by ed mendlowitz
202 questions and answers: managing an accounting practice

question: client didn’t pay his bills to me, doesn’t return my phone calls and his secretary keeps sending me the tax notices he gets with notes of “when are you going to take care of them?” i tell her that i need the client to call me before i can do any more work and she ignores this and keeps sending me the notices and other tax correspondence he gets.

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i don’t want to tell him i am dropping him because then i don’t think i’ll ever be paid. every year he goes on extension and he usually pays me half of what he owes when he sends me his tax info, but the past due amount has really accumulated to about three years’ fees. what should i do about getting paid?
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pause to praise the tax pro volunteers

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they prepared 9.3 percent more returns this year.

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卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 hereby calls for a pause in the post-season doldrums to salute the 67,000 tax pro volunteers and other concerned citizens who helped the needy file their tax returns this year.

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yes, 67,000. that’s really an impressive number of people. not only are they coming to the rescue of people who, despite their problems and limitations, really want to pay their taxes, but they are doing so during the tax season.
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irs vs. fraudsters

the endless war is not going well.

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the fraudsters of the world continue to see the u.s. treasury as a bountiful chest of riches just waiting to be plundered.

it doesn’t take much. a taxpayer’s name, a social security number, a bank account number, maybe an email address, a phone number and a little luck.

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the irs is used to this. it knows what to do about it.

it just doesn’t do it very well.
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rosenbloom: don’t merge for the money

merge to make a better business.

this is a preview. the complete 1-hour video episode, with commentary and transcript, is first available exclusively to pro members. 

the disruptors
with liz farr

ira rosenbloom has worked in m&a with accounting firms for years, but things are changing today. the community of buyers is shrinking, so firms are being more selective about with whom they partner. rosenbloom is also seeing more creativity in transactions, and acquiring firms are looking closer at the clients they may be adding.

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“we’re bringing in more clients. are they the right clients?” he asks. “and if we bring in clients from this other firm, and we do some cutting, how do we let that other firm earn some money back?”

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imagine! the national tax advocate does

(you may say she’s a dreamer, but she’s not the only one.)

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one word keeps popping up in national tax advocate erin m. collins’s introduction to her annual objectives report to congress.

the word is “imagine,” and collins’s dream depicts an irs that is a only bit more feasible than john lennon’s dream of a world with no countries or religion.

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but you can still sing along …

“imagine a taxpayer or a representative receiving a text message

… or email referring the taxpayer to their online account,
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