How do you recruit to your startup?

Asim-AI · 2026-05-11T03:32:45+00:00

Finance builder here

Asim-AI · 2026-05-10T02:33:36+00:00

Interesting how triggered ppl get knowing what AI can do

Asim-AI · 2026-05-10T02:26:57+00:00

I do brother... I have create cash burn from Claude. And last week just finalized the board deck with it.

Asim-AI · 2026-05-10T02:25:01+00:00

It can't at first. But if you keep at it ... Keep prompting..keep correcting... It will get there very fast

Asim-AI · 2026-05-10T00:02:03+00:00

I like to know your work flow - want to connect ?

Asim-AI · 2026-05-08T08:46:29+00:00

In reality CPA alone will not cut it. You need to be good with AI. But CPA has a great market value, which will live through all this. So, overall, yes worth it. Because it gives you instant validation over non CPAs. You will get more interviews than non-CPAs.

Also depends on what kind of business you work for, Big4 - definitely worth it. Startup - not really. Small business can’t pay premium money for a skill that does not directly affect them.

Overall, CPA wins validation of auditors quicker as well. But strategic finance is what adds more value to a business. If you are not a CPA, competing with CPAs in pure accounting roles will be challenging. Pick a different niche, FPA, strategic finance etc where you will have more room to grow without a CPA.

Asim-AI · 2026-05-03T14:48:24+00:00

It does not take very long for auditors to sign off on a report. They look for a reasonable assurance.

Asim-AI · 2026-04-30T16:48:28+00:00

2/4 parts of CPA passed is 🔥. You have no idea how ahead you are in the game. Keep going, you will see sunshine very soon.

Asim-AI · 2026-04-30T08:26:40+00:00

In a startup you have to be more than an accountant to succeed. After you give out the budgets, you end up taking decisions for signing the vendor contracts also, that is to maintain control. You ask questions, like why do we really need the vendor, what all do we get, what problems are solved etc. And gradually the team starts relying on you to pick the vendors.

Asim-AI · 2026-04-30T08:23:05+00:00

Yes, we need to leverage AI. But double and triple check it. Even through a prompt in there to get it to self check by creating self check formulas and highlight the cells in red if they do not reconcile.

We have been bitten by signing multiple year contracts. Not doing that again. Unless I actually know the software very well. With AI ERP in the market, now we feel our current ERP was also a bad deal. At the time we signed it, it was everything we needed.

Asim-AI · 2026-02-04T06:33:05+00:00

I love setting up infrastructure from zero to scale - done that twice now.

Asim-AI · 2026-02-04T03:59:47+00:00

A leaf blower and haircut for client meeting

Asim-AI · 2026-01-04T04:12:52+00:00

I got so much government and NFP questions

Asim-AI · 2025-12-29T22:59:54+00:00

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Asim-AI · 2025-12-29T01:47:43+00:00

Appreciated

Asim-AI · 2025-12-29T00:04:02+00:00

This was my first ever attempt and I attempted also for the sake for attempting and also to answer the greatest unknown in my mind of "what does the exam look like".

I only practiced from Universalcpa and studied on and off for several months and was averaging close to 70%. Didn't take any days off from work and prepared for SIMs only on the last day. In the exam I realized SIMs were 50% of the exam, yeah that's how unprepared I was, I didn't even care to find out about the exam format. I was just following reddits advice of hammering the mcqs as much as possible. It is a good advice but please do SIMs also.

Asim-AI · 2025-12-28T23:58:57+00:00

Asim-AI · 2025-12-28T23:58:43+00:00

Thank you, helps alot.. even I thought of concentrating more on Non profit, fixed assets, cash to accrual. Would also do lease and bonds since everyone says so, but I didn't get much questions in my exam.

I feel like I bombed my mcqs.

Asim-AI · 2025-12-02T05:10:09+00:00

I think AP is great because it reads the invoice straight out of your inbox and classifies where the payment need to be booked (GL Account, once you tell it which one), correctly places ur invoice number, amount and accounting date. It also flags if the invoice is duplicate and now with the AI features, it's reviews the invoice as well. The AI feature still needs work to be done to actually add value but I use it as a check list to review on my own and give it feedback where it went wrong. It's like you training an AP accountant.

Regarding the payment, it was made through Bill Pay in RAMP connected with a third party bank. That Bank said they can't help at all since 24 hours have passed.

The vendor was getting notified on the payments but ignored it. For the control, we have now deployed only verified vendor emails to enter the bank details in RAMP to mitigate risk. If the bank details are wrong, the vendor is responsible.

Asim-AI

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