220: Diane Yetter – The Original SalesTaxNerd

Diane Yetter, the Founder of the Sales Tax Institute, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast.  If you aspire to be the true subject matter expert in your field, whatever that may be, you will really enjoy this particular episode.

Diane’s specialization started much differently than you may imagine.  She didn’t start out to specialize in the sales tax area, but rather became very knowledgeable & skilled in it due to automation projects she participated in very early in her career.  Those projects involved improving systems around the accounting for sales tax, and consequently she became a true subject matter expert in a relatively short period of time.  During her work in the field, she also became involved in training teams on these items, and realized how much she enjoyed the training aspect.  It was because of that realization that she decided to strike out on her own and form the Sales Tax Institute in 1996, an organization that handles both training & implementations in the sales tax systems field.

For those that enjoy stories of building and re-building businesses, Diane’s story will be enjoyable for you as well.  She has made many changes back and forth over the years in her business, as most do, so there is tremendous learning value in that portion of the interview as well.  It’s a great story of building a business by seeing a need in the marketplace, and filling it.

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For more information on Diane Yetter, visit any of the following links:

YETTER Tax: http://www.yettertax.com/

Sales Tax Institute: https://www.salestaxinstitute.com/

Diane Yetter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianeyetter/

YETTER Tax Twitter (used as Diane’s personal account): @YetterTax https://twitter.com/YetterTax

YETTER Tax LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/yetter-tax/

Sales Tax Institute Twitter: @SalesTaxInst https://twitter.com/SalesTaxInst

Sales Tax Institute LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sales-tax-institute/

Sales Tax Institute Facebook: @salestaxinstitute https://www.facebook.com/salestaxinstitute/

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