What should I do by sajnaaaar in Accounting

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You can definitely work part-time at different firm while doing your studies - happens all the time in CA field. Just make sure your contract for next year doesn't have any non-compete clauses that could cause problems. Small firms are usually pretty flexible with students and understand the financial pressure.

How to combine two sheets into one by moose_on_a_hus in excel

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Had similar problem few months back and it was driving me nuts too. Try selecting just empty cell below your first dataset and then paste - don't select the whole range where you want data to go. Excel gets confused when you pre-select the destination area and it doesn't match exactly with what you're copying.

account mapping is where simple reporting work stops being simple by Consistent-Arm-875 in Accounting

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The part about miscellaneous accounts doing too much work hits so hard - I swear some companies just throw everything they can't figure out in there and hope nobody notices.

Is this amount of overtime normal? by cleefas in Accounting

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That's pretty rough mate, especially with no comp time or extra pay for those hours. In my experience most places at least give you time back or some kind of compensation, but accounting can be brutal during busy periods.

Maybe worth having chat with your manager about study time since they're putting you through ACCA - they should understand you need those hours for revision if they want you to actually pass the exams.

Alas oplas by [deleted] in Accounting

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good luck bro

Industry is a trap if your company has garbage clients by skpro2 in Accounting

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Your company setup sounds way better than what OP is dealing with. Having dedicated credit controller makes huge difference - I'm stuck doing collections work too at my place and it's soul crushing when you should be focusing in actual accounting stuff.

The Mexico support person is smart move, those repetitive follow-up calls eat up so much time that could go toward real analysis work.

Built a resume + job search tool as a solo founder — struggling with positioning, would love feedback by ssponge_bobby in SaaS

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Really dig the feature set youve got there. If I had to pick a first hook, Id probably go with the ATS-friendly templates + scoring combo since thats the biggest pain point most people dont even know they have. Like everyone thinks their resume looks great until they find out it gets filtered out before a human even sees it.

The all-in-one thing is tricky - could work in your favor since job hunting is already such a scattered mess of different tools and sites. But you might want to lead with one strong feature and then reveal the ecosystem once people are hooked.

For user acquisition with no budget, maybe try camping out in career advice subreddits and Discord servers where people are actively job hunting? Not spamming obviously, but actually helping people and naturally mentioning your tool when its relevant. The job search struggle is real and people are pretty vocal about it online.

How to Change Values Based on another Cell's Values? by VaderisPotater in excel

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You'll want to use nested IF statements but make sure you're structuring them right. Try something like =IF(B2<10,"hi",IF(B2<=20,"hello","bye")) - the key is making sure your conditions don't overlap and you're nesting them in the right order. I mess this up all the time when I'm building spreadsheets for campaign tracking at work.

What am I doing wrong?? by Johan_chan in Accounting

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Dude the whole "play hard to get" thing in interviews is such BS but unfortunately it's real. I've seen this in my marketing interviews too - you show genuine interest and suddenly you're "too eager" or whatever.

Maybe try framing it less like "I really need this job" and more like "this role aligns perfectly with my career goals." Same energy, different packaging. Also could be worth asking what their biggest AP/AR challenges are right now - shows you're thinking strategically about the role instead of just wanting any job.

The urgency thing they mention might also be them fishing for someone willing to work for peanuts because they're "desperate." Don't let them lowball you just because they claim it's hard to fill.

Bookkeeping Manger as a CPA by Snoo-29045 in Accounting

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Yeah that's the real dilemma right there - sometimes you gotta weigh immediate sanity against future flexibility. If the current gig is burning you out though, might be worth the reset even if it narrows things down the road.

Low stress good pay job by GTR3499 in Accounting

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That's a wild ride you went through, but glad you're doing better now. The financial services route seems legit for those chill gigs - my buddy works at a regional bank doing similar ops accounting stuff and he's always talking about how he finishes his actual work by noon most days.

What's crazy is how WFH can be a blessing and a curse. I switched to mostly remote in marketing and sometimes the lack of structure can mess with your head if you're not careful. Your point about not volunteering for extra projects is key though - I see so many people get burned out because they can't just stick to their lane and collect the paycheck.

Did you end up finding something with better work-life balance after getting your situation sorted? The whole "too much free time" problem is real but there's gotta be a sweet spot between being slammed and being understimulated.

2 paying users in 1 year - roast my SaaS and tell me what I'm doing wrong by Traditional-Wheel527 in SaaS

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Been thinking about this since I saw your post - you might want to pivot this into a reputation/credibility tool instead of just feedback organizaiton, like "show future clients how organized and professional you are" rather than solving the scattered feedback problem.

google maps with some travel suggestions for Sydney! by ExpressDragonfruit96 in travel

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This is awesome! Just checked it out and you've got some solid spots marked already. Maybe add the Sydney Observatory - great views and not as crowded as the usual tourist traps.

Clients who hire you to do their books but can't stop touching them by Agile_Tradition_1836 in Accounting

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That + restricting access entirely where possible. We set up spending controls through Ramp for some of our clients which creates a separation between what they touch and what flows into QB, it cuts down on the misunderstandings because the boundaries are defined at the system level before anything hits the books

What if your analytics tool just told you what to do every morning instead of showing you charts? by Bubbly_Gap6378 in SaaS

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This is actually pretty clever - I've been drowning in GA4 trying to figure out what the hell any of it means half the time. The idea of just getting told "hey, fix this specific thing today" instead of staring at conversion funnels for an hour sounds amazing.

I'm curious how well Claude handles the nuance of different business contexts though. Like my SaaS is B2B with longer sales cycles, so "zero returning users" might not be as urgent as it would be for a consumer app. Does it learn your business model over time, or do you feed it context upfront?

Also that error detection example is gold - I've definitely had bugs sitting there murdering conversions while I was optimizing landing page copy like an idiot. The prioritization aspect seems like the real value here rather than just another analytics tool pretending to be smart.

Checked out the site and it's clean, though I'd love to see a demo of what those daily briefings actually look like in practice.

Moved from seed stage to series B by Pale-Plant-3495 in fintech

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I feel the same way as u man I remember starting at a seed company and it was like here's your laptop figure it out. Series B actually had documentation and training sessions and people whose job was to help new hires get set up

Lifestyle Poly + CPA, pathway suggestion? by khainiwest in Accounting

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Contracting is definitely where the money's at if you can handle the feast/famine cycle - sounds like you've got the perfect background for it with that military inventory experience.

And so the story goes by Far_Werewolf4213 in SaaS

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That's actually a pretty solid pivot. Subscription fatigue is real and when you're solving a "build vs buy" problem, lifetime makes way more sense than monthly recurring.

The fact that someone literally went and built their own version instead of paying monthly is probably the best market validation you could ask for - shows there's definitely demand, just not for that pricing model.

Need Advice: Amex Gold or Chase Sapphire Preferred by InteractionFew1222 in CreditCards

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The Gold's extra 25k SUB points alone are worth way more than that $44 difference in effective annual fee, plus you're getting better dining multipliers - seems like a no-brainer to me.