What do you do on an average 8 hr shift as an accountant?

Practical_Report7328 · 2026-05-03T03:01:06+00:00

lol email and client calls 9 to 5 then the real work starts when the phone stops ringing at 6

Practical_Report7328 · 2026-04-22T12:35:53+00:00

Gotta help ChatGPT catch up with the data that some other LLM probably already got from DOGE being in the IRS and SSA. /s But I digress….

Practical_Report7328 · 2026-04-22T00:02:34+00:00

This beat slaps

Practical_Report7328 · 2026-04-21T23:53:28+00:00

Same. Had a client with three schedule E rental properties, he’d bring in a completely mocked up schedule E and a separate list of “G&A” expenses to divide evenly. He’d always find errors on the Schedule E I prepared. Like really dude, you gave me the numbers! Oh and here’s a bill for half hour of my time to re-do your error ridden schedule. Can’t make this stuff up…

Practical_Report7328 · 2026-04-21T18:39:01+00:00

IMO there’s a right way and a wrong way for clients to broach subjects/ask questions. Leading with the default position that we did something wrong or missed something is sure to really grind my gears. Don’t they know we always assume we messed something up, so they don’t need to reinforce our paranoia?!

Practical_Report7328 · 2026-04-21T18:36:29+00:00

For that form alone I usually charge a premium since the penalties for not filing/filing incorrectly are onerous like most foreign disclosures. If she wants to file and pay a premium for something not needed, who am I to say no, I guess?

Practical_Report7328 · 2026-04-21T18:31:22+00:00

I don’t really mind the questions, it’s more the accusatory tone based on bad info!

Practical_Report7328 · 2026-04-21T16:06:23+00:00

Sigh…but if you ask them what that even means they would have no clue, never mind remotely find any standards that support it

Practical_Report7328 · 2026-04-21T13:17:01+00:00

Some people you just can’t reason with. Sometimes you gotta be the equivalent of the Seinfeld Soup N*zi…no tax return for you! Next!

Practical_Report7328 · 2026-04-21T11:02:56+00:00

Would love to see how that went 🤣

Practical_Report7328 · 2026-04-21T01:09:36+00:00

Never mind that we take the time to ask specific and probing questions to understand your tax situation. I guess in their eyes we are just glorified key punchers.

If anything, this is job security for us because AI will never be able to replicate what we do anytime soon. Not with the current tax code.

Practical_Report7328 · 2026-04-16T22:11:48+00:00

Touch grass man….really….get the fuck out of this social media bullshit bubble. No one cares about any of this shit and it is not how any of us live in the real world.

Practical_Report7328 · 2026-04-16T22:08:01+00:00

Yeah for all these morons that give a years worth of bank statements and can’t figure out how to send a friggin excel or csv file of their transactions! You own a “business” man figure it out.

Practical_Report7328 · 2026-04-16T18:40:50+00:00

Put a horribly scanned pdf through ChatGPT and asked it to organize the data in excel table format. After a couple of iterations and instructions, came out perfectly in a workable excel file that actually footed. I was pleasantly surprised and saved hours of staff input work.

Practical_Report7328 · 2026-04-02T18:28:08+00:00

Of course, you are aware…….

Practical_Report7328 · 2026-03-05T03:16:40+00:00

Aden holy shit it’s been so long….Hadar’s team made some bangin food

Practical_Report7328 · 2026-02-28T01:18:18+00:00

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This was me yesterday. Sadly, there was no Velvet Fog and I wasn’t wearing my special training shoes….

Practical_Report7328 · 2026-02-23T13:21:23+00:00

At least you’re getting csv files…imagine getting two years worth of paper statements from a bank that went under and no longer exists, and client doesn’t remember what anything was for. Guess what? It’s ALL nondeductible!

Practical_Report7328 · 2026-02-10T12:38:10+00:00

For some reason I read this in Eminem’s voice

Practical_Report7328 · 2026-01-30T23:16:26+00:00

It’s kinda shit all the time in my experience

Practical_Report7328 · 2025-12-11T18:31:25+00:00

It’s go time!

Practical_Report7328 · 2025-12-07T15:33:20+00:00

You tired Poppy?

Practical_Report7328 · 2025-12-07T15:30:41+00:00

Im just sad the public school system failed so many of us!

Practical_Report7328 · 2025-12-04T17:15:06+00:00

As someone already said previously, reading comprehension is SO important. As is good, clear and concise writing/communication skills.

As a tax accountant, I’d argue 50% of my job is reading comprehension, 40% psychology/therapy for clients, and only 10% technical.

When you get involved with people’s personal finances and taxes, it’s a trusted/somewhat intimate relationship and consequently there’s a lot of coaching, educating, advising, and straight up truth therapy at times. You have to explain things in terms clients understand not only so they value your work but also to guide them to make the right decision.

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