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Online Accountants Forums: The 14 Best

Future Firm

In this screenshot from Future Firm Accelerate, a member seeks recommendations for improving skills in interpreting financial statements and communicating with clients in a non-accounting language. This forum has been around since 2008 and still has decent web traffic.

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Tax Day is July 15. Still

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Blake Oliver: [00:14:14] While the police are searching for Jan Marsalek, the spotlight is on Ernst & Young now, as the auditor that signed off on Wirecard's financial statements for three years before this was finally revealed. The lesson learned is they didn't get the money out fast enough is what they learned in that.

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Will $2T Stimulus Pay for Accountants’ Self Hair Cuts

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Under 30-minute set-up template - you've got a three-way financial statement forecast for the next 12 months. The last time the IRS sent stimulus checks, in 2008 and 2009, it took more than two months to get the money in the mail. So, we planned a series of webinars, and we did one on Friday. They talk exactly about that.

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Employers Take Hard Pass on Trump Tax Deferral

Cloud Accounting Podcast

– New York Times OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless – MIT Technology Review 36:21 – GPT-3 bot that lets people with no accounting knowledge generate financial statements – Twitter 41:13 – The majority of workers use automation software at work—here's why – Zapier 48:12 – Time for REVIEWS!!!

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Why ScaleFactor Failed, According to Employees (It Wasn't COVID-19)

Cloud Accounting Podcast

They're starting to figure out that instead of producing financial statements, they basically found out that it's not AI or software doing it, it's dozens of accountants doing it manually- Blake Oliver: [00:34:20] In The Philippines. Since 2008, the Fed has doubled the amount of money in the economy; doubled the money supply.

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What Intuit, Xero, and Sage Earnings Say about Cloud Accounting

Cloud Accounting Podcast

bust, the 2008 crisis. According to generally accepted accounting principles, you have to eliminate those transactions when you present your financial statements. This could actually bode well for QuickBooks, and Xero. I saw this, historically, the previous- the Dot-Com 1.0 Intuit, it really doesn't affect them.

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