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ChatGPT for accountants: Your AI overlords call for your tribute

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3 bookkeeping service missteps killing your firm

Fast food. Sunbathing. Forgetting to floss. Humans have a habit of doing things that are bad for them without fully grasping the consequences, often...

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Dreading telling tax clients they owe? How to break it.

For the accountant, tax time is filled with chaos and beat-the-clock energy. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of you, and time is the one thing you...

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Small practitioner? 2023 might be your year. Here’s why.

While you’re furiously crossing off “2022” anywhere you mistakenly write it (does anyone write checks anymore?), you’re probably wondering what 2023...

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Tax time write-up work SU-HUUUUCKS. You can fix it.

About now is the time of year you ask yourself, “How is it busy season again??” Especially when most firms today don’t really have a ton of down...

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Think you have “capacity issues?” That’s not the whole story.

Let’s say something somewhat radical here: capacity problems are an effect, not a cause. You don’t just wake up one morning with capacity problems.

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Is it finally time to take crypto seriously? FASB says yes.

It’s been late-night comedian fodder and the topic of probably half your spam email. It’s attracted famous names, generated immense fortunes, and...

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3 Mistakes your firm needs to avoid in a recession

The Botkeeper blog will be taking a break for the holidays. We'll resume regular posts January 4, 2023! Talk about your hot topics. And like so many...

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Is your firm in danger from inflation?

You probably haven’t heard anything at all about inflation recently, have you?

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Are your employees about to walk?

No one bats 1.000 when it comes to employee retention. Even when a workplace gets everything right, employees will need to move, retire, or just...

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The most efficient accounting firms do these 4 things

Next week, the blog is taking a break to eat turkey and all the trimmings. Wait—the writer is. Not the blog. Blogs don't eat. You know what we mean....

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Here’s what happens if your accounting firm has no capacity

Let me tell you a little story. It’s about three little pigs. WAIT! I promise you haven’t heard this one. I know, it sounds familiar. But this is a...

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3 things you can do now to reinforce your firm’s cybersecurity

System breaches, firewalls, and green text on black screens. Hollywood’s idea of what it means to be hacked can be so over the top and exaggerated...

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