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Gabriel Grub posted:Ask if you get the horns and pitchfork on the first day, or if you have to complete training first. As long as I get a chair and sensible hours, I am good.
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Ungratek posted:This should result in a thread ban, at minimum I take it you have not had good experiences with this organization
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Zoeb posted:I take it you have not had good experiences with this organization All of the feverish right wing stereotypes about the IRS are actually true of the California FTB.
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Nov 11, 2023 13:01
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No I'm not giving you a 51 state breakdown and copies of all my other state tax returns
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Nov 11, 2023 14:18
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Gabriel Grub posted:All of the feverish right wing stereotypes about the IRS are actually true of the California FTB.
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Nov 11, 2023 16:23
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I love when the FTB tells an NRA who spent a semester studying in CA that he needs to prove he wasn't in California for the last twenty years.
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Gabriel Grub posted:All of the feverish right wing stereotypes about the IRS are actually true of the California FTB. Yeah I'm just getting out of school I don't actually have any experience and accounting. The organization was at a job fair and it was one of many that I applied for because I need a job really bad but I also have some issues with standing up all day and don't want to leave Illinois. Looking more into it Why is California so aggressive in giving its tax laws extraterritorial reach?
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Definitely take the job if you get it. FTB sucks for us but I bet it's a good job.
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First two days on the job. Quite slower. Not as kich stress at the moment. Would like to not wait on workflow so I could have a better clue on what to work on next when supervisors are out.
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Nov 15, 2023 20:10
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Jenkl posted:Ask them? Did shortly after. Got some more work done and stuff for tomorrow.
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Sounds much more appropriate than the last position, congrats!
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Anyone get to mid career doing accounting and loving hate it but there are no career switches you can make that would pay you anywhere near what you're making in the job you hate? lol
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mcmagic posted:Anyone get to mid career doing accounting and loving hate it but there are no career switches you can make that would pay you anywhere near what you're making in the job you hate? lol I’m desperately trying to move from being a CFO to a COO?
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pseudanonymous posted:I’m desperately trying to move from being a CFO to a COO? Not sure what that would even look like haha. I'm a mid level finance guy in a huge organization and I just hate it and want to do something very different but I'm in my late 30s and don't have the financial flexibility to go back to school and not work for a few years. I literally want to do anything but accounting/finance for the rest of my life.
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I wouldn't resign myself to a life of misery just yet. You don't necessarily need a new degree to change jobs, although you will be starting from the bottom again, which probably means a pay cut in the near term, but probably worth it rather than hate every minute of your working life? My brother got an accounting degree, didn't like accounting, so he went and did a bunch of IT certs and now he works in IT.
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mcmagic posted:Anyone get to mid career doing accounting and loving hate it but there are no career switches you can make that would pay you anywhere near what you're making in the job you hate? lol
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Have you considered becoming an actuary? If you stay out of valuation the work-life balance is excellent. You'll start finding the thread title offensive, though.
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mcmagic posted:Not sure what that would even look like haha. I'm a mid level finance guy in a huge organization and I just hate it and want to do something very different but I'm in my late 30s and don't have the financial flexibility to go back to school and not work for a few years. I literally want to do anything but accounting/finance for the rest of my life. Just Learn To Code Bro is basically a meme at this point, but historically tech is a viable path away from pure accounting and finance without going back for a degree and with comparable comp. There are a ton of resources available for self learning, depending on what you want to learn. The tech job market is in the dump for the foreseeable future, but at least you are gainfully employed now and do things on your terms. Learning some combination of SQL, python, and data visualization could also lead to some more stimulating work within your current org. You never know. I have to say though, my happiness in every job I’ve ever had was determined by the attitudes of my coworkers and the general vibes of the organization, not necessarily what I was doing day to day.
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mcmagic posted:Not sure what that would even look like haha. I'm a mid level finance guy in a huge organization and I just hate it and want to do something very different but I'm in my late 30s and don't have the financial flexibility to go back to school and not work for a few years. I literally want to do anything but accounting/finance for the rest of my life. Maybe just try doing accounting somewhere else? I would kill myself if I worked for a big firm and had to like, commute and wear a suit everyday but even though I have to deal with tax season crunch every year I like my job because I'm pretty much my own boss and I'm good at what I do.
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Yeah, is this a career issue or a this employer issue?
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I’m coming to terms with the fact that my job is most people’s least favorite part about business, especially the parts of the cycle where we have to tell operations/sales/whoever that their stated plan is a bad financial decision or that there’s no money to fund it.
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Man, I'm so glad I get to do the kind of accounting where I help small and medium business owners stay compliant and plan for the future. It's often tedious but you actually get some appreciation and satisfaction from what you do.
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Gabriel Grub posted:Man, I'm so glad I get to do the kind of accounting where I help small and medium business owners stay compliant and plan for the future. Currently working for a security firm. The good news is so far billing and updating systems has yet to have someone call me a disgusting parasite harassing them about unpaid invoices.
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Nonexistence posted:Yeah, is this a career issue or a this employer issue? It's a career issue. My job is perfectly fine. I'm hybrid 2-3 days a week in the office and my co workers and boss are all fine and I have decent work life balance. The work is just really boring and i'm pretty mid at it and I can't see any finance/accounting job being much better. mcmagic fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Nov 17, 2023 |
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mcmagic posted:It's a career issue. My job is perfectly fine. I'm hybrid 2-3 days a week in the office and my co workers and boss are all fine and I have decent work life balance. The work is just really boring and i'm pretty mid at it and I can't see any finance/accounting job being much better. I’m curious what you think would be significantly improved in another career path? I mean being a mid level office guy in all the other paths I’ve seen doesn’t seem much better. The early/public stages of the accounting career are a nightmare but after that it’s mostly like every other soul draining job in our capitalist system, with maybe some more excel than the other options.
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Good Citizen posted:I’m curious what you think would be significantly improved in another career path? I mean being a mid level office guy in all the other paths I’ve seen doesn’t seem much better. The early/public stages of the accounting career are a nightmare but after that it’s mostly like every other soul draining job in our capitalist system, with maybe some more excel than the other options. i don't want to be a midlevel office guy anymore. thats the main issue so i think the other jobs you'd have in mind wouldn't be any better. I'm on the industry side though, not public accounting.
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pseudanonymous posted:I’m desperately trying to move from being a CFO to a COO? Smart man or woman, a CFO is a dog that caught the car.
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mcmagic posted:i don't want to be a midlevel office guy anymore. thats the main issue so i think the other jobs you'd have in mind wouldn't be any better. I'm on the industry side though, not public accounting. Mid-career ennui is pretty common, but you must’ve chosen the “become a mid level office guy” major for a reason at some point. I hear cops get good overtime. Only kinda kidding.
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Is treasury work normal boring or turbo boring? Cash flow management stuff seems interesting to me for some reason. Even mundane things like “everyone gets an extra $100 at christmas, where do we park the cash and how do we hedge the risk of the CEO bumping it to $150 this year.”
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Democratic Pirate posted:Is treasury work normal boring or turbo boring? Cash flow management stuff seems interesting to me for some reason. Even mundane things like “everyone gets an extra $100 at christmas, where do we park the cash and how do we hedge the risk of the CEO bumping it to $150 this year.” I worked back office treasury at a bank and I thought about killing myself every day on the way to work. I’m not being hyperbolic. But I think corporate treasury would be a lot better, and there’s probably a lot of crossover with FP&A, do you like building models, like DCF models and stuff like that? I really liked real options but I’ve never seen an opportunity to use it.
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Hello, layman here. I'm involved in dissolving a LLC, and a counterparty wants me to make a declaration that the LLC has no assets or liabilities left, and have a CPA or attorney certify the declaration. Who do I ask? My roommate speculates that H&R block is cheapest. (The LLC has a simple history with only six transactions: The initial funding, a financial asset purchase, two bill payments, sale of the asset, and returning money to the owner. It's a single-member LLC that hasn't had to file its own taxes.)
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I'm just here to say that getting to work from home Tuesday and Friday makes up for having to work an extra 3-4 hours one week every month. It really helps I liked my co-workers and my boss and it is a short (15 minute or less) commute. If only it wasn't one of those 9-6 with a 1 hour lunch break deals. If they cut that part and just made it 9-5 with a 15-30 minute lunch break (or 1 hour, why not?) then this job may be ideal, even if the workplace is horribly disorganized and there are tons of problems everywhere. Super hope I'm not jinxing it, but so far I am happy here at 5 months.
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Xom posted:Hello, layman here. I'm involved in dissolving a LLC, and a counterparty wants me to make a declaration that the LLC has no assets or liabilities left, and have a CPA or attorney certify the declaration. Who do I ask? My roommate speculates that H&R block is cheapest. Ask if an attorney can draft a document that the owner signs stating there are no assets and liabilities. It will probably need to include an indemnification of some type. It's gonna get far more complicated if they won't accept that, the liabilities part is the problem. I'm assuming this is a divorce? Why is someone requesting it if it's a single member LLC being dissolved? Azrial fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Nov 19, 2023 |
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Xom posted:Hello, layman here. I'm involved in dissolving a LLC, and a counterparty wants me to make a declaration that the LLC has no assets or liabilities left, and have a CPA or attorney certify the declaration. Who do I ask? My roommate speculates that H&R block is cheapest. I think you're going to have some pushback from the CPA certifying this. It reads similar to a "comfort letter" that mortgage lenders "require" and that's not really what we do. HR Block is also not in this business.
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Audax posted:I think you're going to have some pushback from the CPA certifying this. It reads similar to a "comfort letter" that mortgage lenders "require" and that's not really what we do. HR Block is also not in this business. Oh my loving God! That is one of things I miss the least about public. I do not know what the gently caress was going on. Maybe there were just some guys in the area that everyone used or maybe ever mortgage lender wanted to play this game in the state, but I swear I lost a good couple of hours every month writting a letter saying "We do not do comfort letters. You cannot legally require this of a person. Do not ask for this again. Please leave me alone." I even once had a mortgatge lender try to say "no, we can legally require it. Why would we be bound by a law made because of fannie mae?" And it actually made me twitch as I just replied "do not request this of me again and talk to someone in your company who actually knows the law." They got the mortgage, by the way, after that call.
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Hmm, starting to notice that my new position is a bit more supervisory than I thought. My new boss hired someone just before I started working here and I'm now being asked to train him a bit more. I've never done it before, and I'm honestly not sure if this kid will last that long. The new partner doesn't train his staff as much as the old partner, but most of the other staff he's had seem capable. Part of the problem is also that I'm here fixing some stuff up because the new partner doesn't have time to look over a lot of the work they do so I'm trying to get everyone in better habits like making actual notes so someone else like me can understand them.
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Ops merchant sucks rear end Who the gently caress doesn't have a save function for in progress invoices. You can't enter to space out descriptions nor can make a negative amount for credit info.
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Is this a thread where I could find someone to provide some one-time (perhaps more?) consulting on setting up my self-employment LLC correctly/to my best advantage, and how to plan for taxes, investing, etc? Have money and will pay for the time. Or I can just post for free!
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