"The best integration between QuickBooks Time, ADP Payroll, and QuickBooks Accounting"
Heather Satterley with a write-up on how she's using GPT-3
Season 3 of my scripted podcast AutomationTown kicks off on 12/31 - Here's the trailer for season 3 - If you're a new listener, season 2 is the best place to start
Profitual raises a $1M seed - "Build better financials without accounting expertise
An interesting read about how the next version of SEO may be getting AI chatbots to plug your services
Congrats to Plooto on raising a $20M series B!
Nilus raises a $8M seed to reconcile payments for finance teams
A Chrome extension to help you respond to emails, generating responses in selected tones, using the thread for context. I recently shared some thoughts around how this becomes truly transformative for accountants when built into your practice management system.
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Write Your Excel Macros
I don't use a lot of excel macros, but it turns out ChatGPT is great at writing code. So let's give it a try!
We're using ChatGPT today, a free app from OpenAI. If you feed it a list of what you want the macro to do, it does fairly well:

Here I want to remove duplicate data from my sheet, so I created a new field that was a concatenation of all the other fields, and delete the duplicate records:

I did a deep dive on how to transform data with ChatGPT in this thread, and remember, if you don't know how to use a VBA script in excel, just ask ChatGPT!
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