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From accountant to automation expert, with Jason Staats

Accounting Leaders Podcast · 2023-02-08 · 32 min

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Accountingaccountantaccountantsaccounting firmStuart McLeod

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Jason Staats - accounting firm owner, content creator, automation expert and online community champion - joins the latest Accounting Leaders Podcast episode. Jason shares his journey in accounting, the power of surrounding yourself with like-minded people, automation and no code development, and why vendors need to make more data accessible. Stuart and Jason discuss: The outdoors and writing off an RV (1:30) Raising 3 kids under 5 (4:30) The shortest path to an undergraduate is studying accounting (5:30) Starting in a local Oregon accounting firm at the age of 19 (8:20) Surrounding yourself with like-minded, entrepreneurial people (10:00) Operational effectiveness and efficiency (11:45) Why you need cloud-native tools that give you access to your own data (13:50) Jason's tech stack (15:30) Automation and the role of accountants as quasi-developers (18:00) The power of online communities and learning from like-minded peers (24:30) An open-source accounting firm? (30:00)

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