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steve yoss, quick tech talk: a.i. automation tools for tax, accounting, and finance professionals

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quick tech talk
with steve yoss
cpe today

i’m a big proponent of artificial intelligence and automation. i think these tools are incredible for automating day-to-day tasks, making our lives simpler, faster, and easier, especially lower-value tasks that don’t need our time or focus on our resources.

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in the hands of a professional who knows what they are looking at, these tools can do much of the pre-work and the pre-processing. however, it is up to us to ultimately know what we’re looking at to determine if the results are correct or incorrect. these tools can never assume responsibility or accountability for what they produce. in the same way, a self-driving car is not responsible for getting you from point a to point b; it is ultimately the person in the driver’s seat who assumes responsibility. as the financial professional, you’re in the driver’s seat, and you must ultimately be able to look at this information and interpret it for your client because they won’t trust the ai. they’re going to trust you. and so these tools can be incredibly helpful, but it’s up to you to know how to use them responsibly.

four key questions about leadership

businessman bursting through flames and fireworks

think of it as an upward spiral.

by martin bissett
passport to partnership

unhappy and difficult clients help our firms to improve our client management skills and present opportunities to refine our leadership skills.

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it is tough for us to build a successful firm without difficult clients or internal personnel issues in order to provide learning experiences for us to build a robust and commercially successful infrastructure.
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microsoft discovers a security flaw impacting android apps

beware: malicious apps could smuggle in dangerous code masquerading as regular files.

by rick richardson
technology this week

a recent bleeping computer report claims that microsoft has discovered a severe security flaw that might impact many android apps. this vulnerability, dubbeddirty stream,poses a significant risk because it might allow someone to take control of apps and steal essential user data.

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the ability for malicious android apps to change and abuse android’s content provider system is at the core of the dirty stream vulnerability. usually, this technology enables safe data transfer between several apps on a device. it incorporates security measures such as stringent data isolation, applying rights linked to certain uris (uniform resource identifiers), and careful file path validation to prevent unwanted access.

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know your three audit w’s

understanding all the nuances of the who, what, and when keeps your audit team on track. 

by alan anderson, cpa
transforming audit for the future

taking the time to lay out a detailed who, what, and when plan for all audit staff assigned to an engagement will help ensure that fieldwork is successfully completed. as firms had to develop remote auditing processes in the covid-19 era, many have already been deploying this.

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here are the details for understanding each of the three audit w’s to keep your audit process streamlined:

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are you throwing away profits?

$50 bills in a wastebasket

nine things to stop doing today.

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

a critical measure for accountants – whether they bill either by the hour or a fixed price – is the amount they bill clients each month. as anxious as many accountants are to raise their revenues, their daily activity often sabotages that goal with the same common billing mistakes.

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here’s a checklist so you can compare your behavior with the list. i’ll give some tips on how to break the bad habit, and the rest will be up to you.

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