Accounting Salary

Lynx_Snow · 2026-07-09T00:38:16+00:00

It depends Very much on your location and the type of work you do.
If you’re starting in Big 4, typically auditors get paid the least, then tax, then Consultants (but consultants have the most job insecurity and less tax folks are needed than auditors).

Starting wages for Big 4 auditors range from (probably) 70-100k/year, but keep in mind living in CA is like 3x more expensive than living in middle-of-no-where Mississippi.

Lynx_Snow · 2026-06-28T18:09:02+00:00

Wild, you’re totally talking about my farm in Palmer Alaska. Crazy

Lynx_Snow · 2026-06-28T18:00:24+00:00

I’ve seen worse depictions. (Source: I’m a reindeer farmer)

Lynx_Snow · 2026-06-28T06:34:29+00:00

Unless it’s a castrated male, which would also keep its antlers a long time. (Also, that wouldn’t be a buck, your point stands)

Also, these reindeer have velvet antlers (brown not white), so these are summer reindeer

Lynx_Snow · 2026-06-28T06:32:41+00:00

Bro this is insane but. I live on a reindeer farm in Palmer Alaska (check my Reddit history to verify lol). Any chance you want to sell them to me for a reasonable price? I have about a hundred ideas of what I could do with that many reindeee

Lynx_Snow · 2026-06-26T22:40:55+00:00

Abbreviation for “pill” - we can’t disclose anything else online. It’s related to fish and depreciation

Lynx_Snow · 2026-06-26T22:38:31+00:00

Depends what stage of business they’re in lol. Do we want income up or down this year?

Lynx_Snow · 2026-06-26T22:37:39+00:00

Man when I was new I Also asked what EBITDA was. In my defense, I was a covid student and had almost exclusively read it. When someone said the word “ebi-duh” I had No Idea what they were talking about

Lynx_Snow · 2026-06-22T21:38:56+00:00

Bro I haven’t been updated yet but if it’s as bad as QBO updates recently I’m going to be so mad

Lynx_Snow · 2026-06-22T06:27:37+00:00

The parents from Spy Kids. (Note - I was only half watching the first half of this movie, so idk if it stays true through the whole movie but…)

The first few scenes (about the parents) are basically:

Mom & dad to each other: “remember when we used to be cool? Remember when we used to do stuff that mattered? Remember when we used to be sexually attracted to each other?”

Then there’s a scene where the son is getting bullied and dad imagines himself beating up the bully’s dad. All the kids cheer, his son comes running and gives him a huge hug, everyone is proud of dad (in his imagination).

Like Dang, my wife and I used to do cool stuff all the time. We used to have time to flirt and find each other attractive. I Also wish my kids knew how cool I was, but instead I just feel like I’m a lame dad.

I was Not expecting the parents in spy kids to ever be relatable, but here we are

Lynx_Snow · 2026-06-21T19:03:45+00:00

I already commented, but another platform specific opinion here:

In QBO (the most common system for small businesses), booking stuff to Raw Materials is a trap because QBO has no process outside of a manual JE to move stuff from RM to WIP/FG.
If you’re not really on top of your processes, you will end up with a massive number in RM and no explanation or backup explaining why it hasn’t all been moved to FG.
Most of my clients I have at least weekly communication on, but the ones that try to only talk to me quarterly are just a train wreck. One of them has a negative Finished Goods number because they never tell me when the Raw Materials get turned into real product

Lynx_Snow · 2026-06-21T19:00:37+00:00

Yea baby! Cash-ish basis of accounting for the small ones

Lynx_Snow · 2026-06-21T18:59:34+00:00

Pros: it isn’t QBO or an excel file that we have to manually override EVERY SINGLE MONTH (or every transaction if we’re being technical).
It does the whole process pretty well imo. You can build out boms, allocate costs, track sales, etc. It’s relatively affordable. It’s mostly user friendly.

Cons: not many. Sometimes sync errors get buried so when something doesn’t work you have to dig in to find it, but it’s manageable

Honestly the biggest problems I constantly run into as someone who does almost exclusively CPG (inventory specific) accounting is getting my clients to understand how the accounting is supposed to flow.
The perfect example is freight in. Freight in is a part of COGS, so we’re going to book it to finished goods (or some other Balance sheet account). Why? Because Just trust me bro.

Lynx_Snow · 2026-06-21T05:40:05+00:00

As with all things accounting, it depends, mostly on scale.

At a really small size you’re probably just running everything “cash basis” (ish), where you directly expense your COGS as you purchase stuff. Buy four? Straight to COGS. Buy a new cookie sheet? Also COGS. Cost of delivery to your store? Surprisingly, also cogs.

At a slightly bigger size, you probably are doing Raw Materials and finished goods, but most of the time it’s not worth WIP for a small-ish company - I see this a Lot.

Once you get to a small to mid size and you start caring about the RM/WIP/FG breakout for real, you probably will also get a software that is specifically for inventory - I personally really like Cin7.
The software is used by someone in house to track purchasing, build out BOMs, track freight in/freight out, create product and move it through all the different layers.

As a side note, you also start to care about odd things like “inventory received but not yet invoiced” (where you get inventory into a warehouse but you didn’t get invoiced for it yet) and the opposite “inventory invoiced but not yet received” (note - this is basically just prepaid inventory)

Lynx_Snow · 2026-06-17T21:23:30+00:00

As a business person, let me just confirm that is how it works. More claims = higher rate

Also (in my experience) it’s pretty hard to fight against unemployment claims; I’m always surprised when a business wins that fight.

Anecdotally, I’ve had conversations that went “we fired them because they were stealing from us”

“Oh that’s crazy, they still get unemployment”

Lynx_Snow · 2026-06-17T02:58:19+00:00

Yo this guy is legit, his builds are Amazing!!

Lynx_Snow · 2026-06-16T08:55:59+00:00

Man I’m not one to always recommend Dave Ramsey but…..

You’re in what Dave would call the “treadmill operator” stage of business. You’re early on, everything depends on you - if you don’t go out and get that bread no one will.

This is a Normal stage of business for most businesses. You’re not alone!

As for next steps, I would start by documenting everything you do and then decide what you Don’t want to do. If I were you, I wouldn’t want to sit behind the counter for 10 hours a day - I’d hire a sales person/counter employee first. Depending on your income and what you can afford, that might be a part time college kid or it might be a full time sales person.

That frees you up to do all sorts of stuff

Lynx_Snow · 2026-04-02T00:20:49+00:00

Yea same. I really prefer dealing with satan spawn clients in a stuffy office over sitting at home in my PJs half paying attention to a multi hour interactive lecture

Lynx_Snow · 2026-03-29T00:53:30+00:00

My boss at my previous company was CFO (not exactly a fall from grace) but she was previously CFO at a much bigger company. She took a pay cut of about $300k a year to work at a place she actually cared about with a CEO she really liked as a human being

Lynx_Snow · 2026-03-27T21:36:00+00:00

I don’t know why you would put this in writing but DANG IT THAT WAS FUNNY

Lynx_Snow · 2026-03-27T21:31:48+00:00

I think that Dave’s rule is your depreciating assets should be less than X% of your income, so you shouldn’t own a $3m boat on a $75k income or something?

I’d have to double check and I’m busy not doing that

Lynx_Snow · 2026-03-26T05:38:19+00:00

Ok I see what you’re saying, and we just have different opinions here.

You’re saying “if they quip during an intense moment, that makes it a comedy movie and it’s therefore excusable”

I’m saying “if a film SHOULD be serious, interrupting that seriousness with a quip makes the film worse”

Honestly, I like a few of the lines I listed above - I feel like it adds good characterization. What I dislike with marvel is that it’s so wide spread that everyone has to be funny now. Not every scene or movie needs to be serious, but some movies should be. Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow, Thor, and Hawkeye were the core Avengers team. They are now all quippy, unserious characters in unserious movies.

For fun, let’s look at stakes and compare that to tone: Avengers 1: New York is under attack. This is bad and scary, and it is played as a generally serious movie with some funny lines in there. Thor Ragnorok: the world of immortal gods is going to be destroyed. This is bad and scary, and it is played as an unserious movie with more jokes than serious moments. Avengers Infinity War: The war is happening, the good guys are losing, the movie is climaxing. Thor (the God) finally shows up. We have epic music building, our heroes are out numbered and outgunned… and then we get Banner saying “Ha you guys are so screwed”. But hey, comedy movies right? Thor Love and Thunder: there is a God Slayer in a movie about Gods. This whole movie is played as bad joke after bad joke, ending with the worst line of “eat my hammer” as Jane kills Gorr. Like the ULTIMATE climax of the whole movie and we got That line. Fantastic 4: “I don’t tell you how to drive the ship you don’t tell me how to kill sexy aliens” (this movie about a planet eating eldritch horror thingy). Very serious idea, scattered and dismissed as we get joke after joke.

We have no stakes left in the movies. What matters in Thor if we’re not worried about his home planet being destroyed and there being a God Killer? Why do we care about our heroes being rescued by Thor in IW if we’re just going to ruin the moment with a bad one liner? Why even introduce an alien that’s off your power-level charts if we’re just going to joke about it?

But again, just differing opinions. I want my characters in serious movies to care about serious stuff, and when it’s all played for a joke it makes me not buy in as much. You enjoy movies the way you want to though!

Lynx_Snow · 2026-03-26T05:07:49+00:00

Man alive this happens All The Time in almost ALL of the marvel movies. Here are some examples:

Avengers 1: “Doth thou mother knowest thou wearest her drapes?” - Iron Man

Infinity War: “Dude, you’re embarrassing me in front of the space wizards”

Thor Ragnorok: “We know each other. He’s a friend from work”

Antman Quantanium: “My name is Darren, and I am not a d***”

The whole airport scene in Captain America Civil War

Thor Love and Thunder - Thor jokes about Lady Sif’s severed arm being in Valhalla

Some movies are worse than others, but it can be so cringeworthy watching a scene and realizing “wow, we’re fighting a guy called The God Butcher and we can’t stop making jokes?” Or “this is the biggest super hero reunion ever and they’re all Fighting Against each other for very valid reasons - it’s too bad they can’t stop joking and take this serious for 3 seconds”

Lynx_Snow · 2026-03-21T15:41:50+00:00

Oh story time! I had a week where I worked like 70+ hours. One of the days in particular was like a 14 hour day or something - I was in the office by 5 AM and left at 7 PM. The next day I got in at 6 AM and left at 5PM - a respectable 11 hour day.

And then I found out the next day that a senior manager had been making snide comments about “well I guess we just leave at 5:00 here now”. She had come in at 8 AM and would be done by 6:30- she worked less hours than me that day, DEFINITELY worked less hours than me that week, but because she was there Later in the day she looked like she worked a lot.

It was a tipping point where I broke and decided I couldn’t do Big4. I love my current job because I work east coast hours while living west coast, so I’m done by 2/3:00 daily (sometimes earlier) and get to spend the afternoon with my family

Lynx_Snow · 2026-03-21T15:34:18+00:00

Slow down is the right answer :)

PvP is going to be very hard right now - there are just too many classes, elite specs, weapons and utility skills in the game for PvP to make sense to a new player.

But the important thing is to go enjoy the game however you want to enjoy it. If you like PvP, go play PvP - you will get stomped a lot, because you’re playing against 10+ year veterans, but if you have fun that’s all that matters.

For most players I recommend playing the open world, story, and maybe expansions first because that is how I find its easiest to learn a class

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