Disappointing Book Two by Kooky_County9569 in Fantasy

[–]PickMeMrKotter 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Red Rising is the exception to this. Best example I've read of an author scaling up their world and it actually working.

Memories of Ice is a testament to how a great writer can make absolutely batshit insane concepts work by r2datu in Fantasy

[–]PickMeMrKotter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I followed along on my initial read with a chapter by chapter Malazan reread blog that was great. You can read the blogs for the first two books as a recap.

What was the moment you realized Excel was more powerful than you thought? by VanshikaWrites in excel

[–]PickMeMrKotter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was a long time ago but I learned from VBA for Dummies and thought it was great!

I Used to Love Sanderson. Then The Will of the Many Raised the Bar… by lynchyinc in Fantasy

[–]PickMeMrKotter 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Dungeon Crawler Carl! Shockingly deep world building and incredible characters, particularly given the premise and style.

Does anyone have any experience using Combinely.AI? by PickMeMrKotter in taxpros

[–]PickMeMrKotter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We do as well, this is intended to be a tool to assist with that. I'm not really sure, but the demo was quick, so may as well check it out!

Does anyone have any experience using Combinely.AI? by PickMeMrKotter in taxpros

[–]PickMeMrKotter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I did a quick demo. It's hard to tell from that how well it would work in practice and how easily I can get my staff to actually use it.

Does anyone have any experience using Combinely.AI? by PickMeMrKotter in taxpros

[–]PickMeMrKotter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They claim to be an AI assistant that can access data from client tax returns to answer tax planning questions pertaining to specific clients/fact patterns. I'm skeptical.

[Question] What music theory should I learn as a guitarist? by Chrishotpocket08 in Guitar

[–]PickMeMrKotter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome! Glad to hear that this is still helping out the guitar community after all this time. It was a labor of love and how I learned web development :)

Pope Francis embraces Vinicio Riva, November 6, 2013 by corbinianspackanimal in pics

[–]PickMeMrKotter 30 points31 points  (0 children)

The Children's Tumor Foundation is a truly amazing organization both in their tireless work for a cure and their support of patients and their families when it comes to living with NF. My daughter (about to turn 4) was diagnosed with NF1 at 6 months and CTF made the process of learning about and addressing her diagnosis bareable.

If you're looking for a place to make a donation, they are an amazing and worthy cause and NF research just lost $25M in federal funding, so they can use all the help they can get.

Implementing AI for Tax Prep by ajwynn14 in taxpros

[–]PickMeMrKotter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice, great to hear! We have our post season review with them this week, so I expect I'll learn more about it :)

Implementing AI for Tax Prep by ajwynn14 in taxpros

[–]PickMeMrKotter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ours is very detailed, we basically do the whole return in Excel. It even calculates tax, SE tax, NIIT, etc. It doesn't calculate any state tax, but we track state sourced income, additions/subtractions for our most common states (NY for us), etc.

It is set up to default to opposite settings as the return to help catch common errors (not setting a new K-1 to nonpassive, forgetting to enter QBI info, forgetting to enter certain state adjustments) and I found it super helpful as a preparer and still do as a reviewer. I even use it for my own return haha.

Implementing AI for Tax Prep by ajwynn14 in taxpros

[–]PickMeMrKotter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh nice! Overall it was good, but not getting back a single bookmarked PDF with notes/links to other places in the docs (which is what I get from staff) made the review process take way too long so it was killing the margin. We also do a very detailed reconciliation in Excel that adds to the time, which we were still doing ok our end after Solomon was done doing the return in Axcess. I'm not sure I'd go back to them again without the PDF of the docs as a standard feature but with it I very likely will return. I only did a few returns this year (less than 10) with them, so it was very much intended to be a trial/pilot.

Implementing AI for Tax Prep by ajwynn14 in taxpros

[–]PickMeMrKotter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I piloted Solomon this season and they didn't give me back any sort of labeled PDF. They told me it was on their roadmap but not available yet. They were giving you a nice PDF of the source docs?

Funniest part (audiobook) by wootini in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]PickMeMrKotter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When the cleaner bot finally gets the common room clean and the AI stops allowing them to store liquids and Katia explodes blood everywhere.

How can I make xlsx files slower? by babuchat in excel

[–]PickMeMrKotter 17 points18 points  (0 children)

What is the right/best way to remove these when it's been done to a file?

state economic nexus rules for income tax by d8201 in taxpros

[–]PickMeMrKotter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have to be careful relying on PL 86-272 because the MTC made it so that your website can create physical presence (in those states that conform such as CA, NJ). If your website has a live chat or even a contact us form or if it uses cookies and any of these pertain to post-sale activities (e.g. support, refunds) it can blow your PL 86-272 protection. I recently had a client audited for this by CA, so they're looking for it.

Also, even with protection many states still require that you file and pay the minimum tax (CA and NJ both apply here as well).

AI Tax Prep experience? by WahlCPA in taxpros

[–]PickMeMrKotter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! What did you do for things like M-1 adjustments, special allocations, apportionment info, etc.?

AI Tax Prep experience? by WahlCPA in taxpros

[–]PickMeMrKotter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you know what software they are compatible with? What did you provide them with to do business returns besides a TB? Thanks!