Best on Ground

• Cocky tax startups - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/think-your-2018-tax-season-tough-check-out-visors-attempt-david-leary
• Vale Henry Bloch (H&R Block founder) - https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/3555032002
• When important messages can’t get heard https://twitter.com/horizonaccount/status/1116306674178879489?s=19
• What the marketers got wrong https://generationcfo.com/2019/04/17/automation-redundancy-is-fake-news-heres-why-part-one/

 

Worst on Ground

• Someone who wants to be Federal Treasurer caught miscalculating franking credits: https://twitter.com/paulmeissner_/status/1119169867209306112?s=21
• Pilot bookkeeping raises $40m. Why? If it’s a tech play, they are building Receipt Bank again and playing catch up with others. If it’s a services play, then anyone raising for services businesses is an idiot. https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/18/index-ventures-stripe-back-bookkeeping-service-pilot-with-40m/amp/
• Will tech really overtake this firm and what have we seen in the past that might indicate the future: https://futurefirm.co/will-accounting-tech-startups-overtake-your-firm/  
• I’ll never get tired of weird deductions https://www.accountantsdaily.com.au/tax-compliance/12889-tax-agent-claims-family-pet-as-guard-dog-gets-booted-by-tpb

 

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