Accountants copy-paste data between systems
14 posts across 2 communities in the last 60 days; 93% from r/Accounting.
“Million in cash just floating around as office supplies huh. Yeah that tracks with what I see on the smaller end too, just fewer zeros. The ones who want you to make it disappear are always the most surprised when you say no. Like they genuinely cannot fathom it. Thirty years in…”
“Each file is pointing to the other as problem like the spiderman meme. -L.B.”
“That doesn't make it faster to check for errors. It only makes fixing errors faster, because there are fewer of them.”
Multiple accountants express frustration with the need to manually copy and paste data between different accounting systems. This points to a lack of integration or automation in their workflows, leading to inefficiency.
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“Just a typo. I have an spreadsheet that has all the trades I made. Gave it to my CPA to create the 8949 and also to Claude. Claude found a few errors that my CPA (or, presumably his software) made. [re: Does anyone use Claude…”
“That doesn't make it faster to check for errors. It only makes fixing errors faster, because there are fewer of them.”
“idk when the last time you used them was, but the error rate has declined by like an order of magnitude”
“I tried to copy prior year but then they changed the assertion we are testing so like, gg 😂”
“We dont use Power Query at my office. At least I haven't seen it yet so I am unable to answer that!”
Hard coding everything in the work paper. It’s now my biggest pet peeve
“Here is my 4 step process to figuring out stuff. Does this make sense? Dig deeper and add context Ask other people for input sometimes Have a jimmy neutron brain blast”
“That's what I miss too. It's very satisfying turning data into usable information.”
“Like them up in excel and use a colour match or if it's not that simple use python to run a comparison.”
“Million in cash just floating around as office supplies huh. Yeah that tracks with what I see on the smaller end too, just fewer zeros. The ones who want you to make it disappear are always the most surprised when you say no. Like they genuinely cannot fathom it. Thirty years in and that part never stops being weird to me.”