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how to fight feeling overwhelmed

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overwhelmed businessman covered in sticky notes

five ways to turn a tough day into a great one.

by sandi leyva
the complete guide to marketing for tax & accounting firms

the exact solution to managing your “overwhelm” level will depend on what the source of your overwhelm is. you can also be suffering from more than one source of overwhelm.

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here are five tips to help you manage the most common sources of overwhelm.

1. find support.

is your overwhelm related to your packed schedule?
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chris vanover: question the why or stay with the status quo

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challenge yourself to do things differently.

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chris vanover is on a mission “to make accounting and auditing better.”

initially, auditclub helped firms mainly with quality control, but over time that grew into offering fractional support on a subscription basis to audit firms that can’t find the talent they need.

more podcasts and videos: jason deshayes: what we’re doing isn’t working | heather satterley: you’ve got to meet people where they are | bill penczak: stop forcing smart people to do stupid work | sandra wiley: staffing problem? check your culture | scott scarano: first, grow people. then firm growth can follow | jody padar: build a practice that works for you, not vice-versa | ira rosenbloom: with m&a, nobody wants a fixer-upper | peter margaritis: the power skills every accountant needs | joe montgomery: find the sweet spot of the right clients, right services and right prices | marie green: your bad apples are ruining you | megan genest tarnow: hire for curiosity rather than compliance | clayton oates: one way to keep clients for life | randy crabtree: follow these three rules to keep employees happy | erik solbakken: yes, you can work less and make more | donny shimamoto: future firm growth requires a mindshift | jennifer wilson: empower young workers to build the firm everyone loves | mike whitmire: re-think your hiring and training practices | hector garcia: success strategies of a quickbooks youtube superstar | blake oliver: why tax work yearns to be free| private equity explodes in u.k. | brannon poe: the status quo must go  | accounting nerds, unlock your super powers  | disruptor: jason statts shakes up the status quo | think small to think big with matt wilkinson | when financial statements go extinct with corey schmidt | can geraldine carter save accountants from themselves? | re-inventing accounting with tyler anderson

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audit firms are challenged to plan a year or even a month out, so auditclub offers members weekly access. this weekly flexibility allows auditclub to take a concierge approach to help their member firms out a week at a time. plus, vanover may have the secret sauce to getting employees to perform at their optimum levels daily.

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ai + mri = diseases that doctors might miss

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could this patented ai algorithm predict metabolic abnormalities up to a half-decade in advance?

by rick richardson
technology this week

an artificial intelligence platform developed by a british health tech business can analyze mri data to look for early signs of sickness. the company’s strategy, which employs imaging biomarkers, promises better disease diagnosis and treatment decision-making.

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twinn health claims to be advancing longevity and preventive healthcare thanks to a $500 million venture capital fund from saudi aramco.
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the art of prompt engineering for accountants

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the latest skill you didn’t know you needed.

by sandi leyva
the complete guide to marketing for tax & accounting firms

with the rise of artificial intelligence tools such as chatgpt, accounting professionals need to add a new skill to their toolbox: prompt engineering. but don’t worry, it doesn’t have much to do with engineering, and the learning curve is quite achievable for everyone. the best part is that the payoff can be game-changing.

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prompt engineering delves into a world where numbers meet language. while it might sound like a far cry from balance sheets, ledgers and tax forms, it’s an easy concept to understand. let’s dig into the basics and benefits of prompt engineering for accounting professionals.
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printer ink: not just expensive, but a blatant scam?

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are you really sure how much ink you’re buying?
 
by rick richardson
technology this week

those incredibly cheap entry-level printers you find when sorting your options by “price lowest” can be very alluring if you’re in the market for a new inkjet printer. however, don’t assume it shows you’re getting a good deal.

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just as a drug dealer can offer a cheap initial “sample” to get you hooked before raising the price on all subsequent transactions, printer manufacturers use a similar business strategy. they can easily make up any loss from the printer’s discounted sale by offering its ink cartridges for exorbitantly high prices. the printer firms then keep you on the hook for paying these outrageous ink rates for the duration of the printer, which is a very lucrative revenue stream for them.

let’s take a closer look …
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staff need good pay and tlc

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table of responses

they’re scarce. here’s how to keep them happy.

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

it’s no news to the accounting industry that staff and professionals are hard to find and hard to keep from wandering off to some other firm.

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and the law of supply and demand hasn’t failed to rule, according to the global talent trends 2023 survey of the association of chartered certified accountants: scarce employees expect a good salary, good treatment and a chance to work outside the office.

identifying and dealing with these employees’ expectations is essential to a continuous and successful flow of business. the survey found five challenges to that flow.
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two words define your work future in the ai world

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the boundary you must cross to ensure future success.

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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you’re missing 60% of your revenue

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here are four ways to stop leaving that money on the table.

by sandi leyva
the complete guide to marketing for tax & accounting firms

accounting firms have done a great job adopting paperless office technologies, the web and even cloud computing, so you may feel you have been doing all you can to streamline margins, become “client-centric,” as some consultants call it, and grow your practice. but i believe there is even more opportunity that very few, if any, in the accounting profession have fully identified or embraced.

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i only bring this up because i believe most cpa firms are leaving about 60 percent of their potential revenue on the table (and i can prove it). worse, they are not sharing their badly needed financial expertise with more businesses that could be greatly helped, especially now.
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bill gates behind next-generation nuclear plant

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the new plant could be in operation as early as 2029. 

by rick richardson
technology this week

even by wyoming standards, kemmerer is far away – it’s a 50-mile diversion from interstate 80.

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it draws tourists who stop by to look for local fossils, even though its elevation is higher than its population. however, different types of fossils, or fossil fuels, produce the best jobs. three power plants are powered by a coal mine and gas wells, which together employ around 450 people. however, kemmerer officials see the writing on the wall with the declining use of fossil fuel and all the efforts to migrate to cleaner energy.
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calculate your business relationship ratios

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two women standing, laughing, looking at laptop one is holding, other holds takeout coffee cup

is 3:1 good enough? it depends.

by sandi leyva
the complete guide to marketing for tax & accounting firms

here’s a quick exercise: choose any person in your work life or personal life. now think back to last few interactions you had with that person. recall what was said and classify your list into two groups.

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what interactions, comments and questions did you have with your chosen person that were negative? here are some examples of things that are in the “negative” group:
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your boarding pass could onboard hackers

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while it may make a cute vacay pic, posting on social could give hackers all they need to rip you off.

by rick richardson
technology this week

any pictures of your boarding pass should be excluded when choosing which travel photos to share on social media.

the documents may appear to be nothing more than travel souvenirs outside of their primary use at the airport, but they are much more informative than many travelers realize.

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if cybercriminals can get a picture of a boarding pass, they can exploit travelers in several ways.

even while the information on the documents appears to be sparse, bad actors “can very easily bring up the rest of the things they need to know about you from public records, like your date of birth, your address, your phone number, or your email address,” according to amir tarighat, ceo of cybersecurity company agency.

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what can chatgpt do for accounting professionals?

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the dawning of new technologies is usually daunting, but this is one we should all be excited to try.

by sandi leyva
the complete guide to marketing for tax & accounting firms

chatgpt has been in the news almost daily. it’s the latest “hot” technology. you might be wondering what’s so great about it, i.e., what can it do for accountants?

 

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when we answer that question, we really need to answer a couple of questions. first, what can it not do, or what shouldn’t we use it for? and second, what tasks are safe or low-risk that we can use it for to increase our productivity?

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first, we’ll look at what not to use chatgpt for and then we’ll look at what you should be using it for. last, we’ll examine two rules to follow when using chatgpt.
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