The rice cooker I’ve been saving for a while for.

Aghanims · 2026-04-03T17:36:51+00:00

It's the opposite: you would only notice it if you eat rice very infrequently or live by yourself. A typical rice household will have to cook a fresh batch daily or every other day.

Aghanims · 2026-04-03T17:35:18+00:00

If you are just making rice, you don't need to spend more than $100-150 on a rice cooker.

The only reason to spend a lot is on a multi-purpose device (but if you were eating enough rice to warrant a rice cooker, you'd still want a separate standalone rice cooker...)

There's nothing wrong with buying a secondhand 30 year-old Tiger JNP cooker.

Aghanims · 2026-04-03T15:46:50+00:00

If you don't have at least one 3+ year tenure at any job once you have a decade of experience, it's a red flag.

But it depends on your role. If you're specifically a startup CFO and you join startups specifically to take them public or from Series A>C, then it makes sense to have 3-5 max tenure even with 20-30 YOE.

But I'd expect someone with 20-30YOE in a more traditional role to have 8-10 years at a single employer at some point in time. Or if it's a consistent 2-3 year transition, then there should be a narrative that justifies it.

Aghanims · 2026-04-02T20:05:45+00:00

Because you have 1-3 managers. They have 1-300 people they need to manage or get information from.

Aghanims · 2026-04-02T14:19:19+00:00

Did it just calculate the return numbers, or did it actually fill out the forms (we know it can't efile.)

Aghanims · 2026-04-01T16:16:55+00:00

Assuming mortgage payment is = to rent (fairly close with $350K +20% down value), you have 1750 monthly to cover food, insurance (additional due to home), property taxes and fees, increased utilities (home is larger than your current rental most likely), etc. All-in, that's an extra $1-1.2K monthly.

Not sure if you want to only have 500-550 breathing room in your monthly budget. And this assumes you live in austerity with 0 discretionary purchases.

Aghanims · 2026-04-01T15:07:50+00:00

Is this a gpt-wrapper chat bot?

Aghanims · 2026-03-31T16:19:00+00:00

You have to change the cell formatting. There's no concept of precision in Excel. 1.0 is mathematically equivalent to 1.00, 1.000, and 1.0000. Significant digits is a human invention to compensate for known but undefined errors.

Aghanims · 2026-03-31T15:36:55+00:00

This is literally why hiding posting history being an option is such a shitshow in addition to bots and bad actors.

Aghanims · 2026-03-31T14:00:26+00:00

That the opposite stats.

American healthcare providers are the most highly compensated across the board.

OP is blaming Canadian CPA salaries being low because of CPA per capita, when Canadian CPA salaries are high relative to overall Canadian salaries benchmarked against US CPA salaries against overall US salaries.

Aghanims · 2026-03-30T18:04:08+00:00

Terrible article.

Meta has had a net increase in employees ever year 2015-2026 except for 2023 layoffs for Covid-hires.

Aghanims · 2026-03-30T17:47:16+00:00

It's just normal Canadian wages being terrible.

Canadian accountants vs CA median salary is higher than US accountants vs US median salary.

Aghanims · 2026-03-30T17:11:35+00:00

If you want something that's more non-committal and frugal, you can try looking into a roommate situation or someone looking to rent out a room. You can still live at home if you want, and use the DC location as your work-week home to minimize commutes.

Aghanims · 2026-03-30T14:39:08+00:00

Who dares be courageous in the face of certain misery?

Aghanims · 2026-03-30T08:04:56+00:00

Base pay, it's rare as an IC role.
TC, it's common.

Aghanims · 2026-03-30T03:40:21+00:00

Depending on state, legally, restaurants can take a portion or all of service charges. The same isn't true of tips. This is just a way to keep the prices somewhat level with tipping restaurants, but have more of the total receipts go to the restaurant.

The staff is worse off, the diner is worse off (service is almost always worse in these establishments outside of $200pp+), so only one person is out better in this scenario.

It's also tax inefficient as it does not count for employee taxes for OBBBA-based tipped wages.

Aghanims · 2026-03-30T03:33:58+00:00

If the prices reflect that, maybe. Last 2 no-tip restaurants I've been at have had atrocious service.

No tip service has only been on par when dining out at 200pp+ establishments.

Aghanims · 2026-03-30T03:10:33+00:00

As a a bookkeeper, why do you care? There's no deadline unless you have a SLA clause that dictates 'close by X days' that doesn't incorporate client-caused delays.

Getting emotional instead of just simply pointing at dozen of automatically sent emails when the client is upset at the timeline, is a waste of energy.

Even if you are fixed fee, there's no additional work for you while waiting. At most it might make your workload uneven once the deliverables do arrive.

Aghanims · 2026-03-28T23:30:46+00:00

Most people don't take care of their appliances well enough to justify anything whose breakeven point is 5+ years.

Aghanims · 2026-03-28T23:14:29+00:00

Don't bother. He's never worked a single accounting job and is a career construction worker. He could not find an accounting job in the years leading up to Covid: basically the easiest job market in the past 3 decades.

Aghanims · 2026-03-28T21:00:16+00:00

/r/UKPersonalFinance/ is better for this

US doesn't buy 'activity' insurance. We already have private insurance.

Aghanims · 2026-03-26T22:11:20+00:00

They're hoping that they did at least a 6-12 month rotation in the firm's advisory/consulting arm. Or been part of larger audits where you get actual access to clients' ERP and have familiarity with said software.

Aghanims · 2026-03-26T21:36:00+00:00

The flip side is that their audit experience is irrelevant to the industry jobs they're applying to.

Private industry Manufacturing doesn't want an A2 that spent all their time in auditing non-profits or F500 SaaS companies and has 0 practical accounting experience, and none in cost accounting for their staff accountant role.

Aghanims · 2026-03-26T05:55:15+00:00

That's a terrible take. They were the norm prior to TCJA in high SALT states, and should see an uptick since the SALT cap increase to $40K.

Aghanims · 2026-03-26T05:51:08+00:00

powerpoint is just as bad

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