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Essays on deleting work before automating it
Notes from closing books and writing the software that does the chasing. Short, with one idea each. Every essay ends with a question we have not settled.
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The four hours that matter
The judgment work of a Chartered Accountant fits in a few hours a month. The rest is chasing, and the chasing does not need an accountant.
If a client pays a Chartered Accountant for judgment, should they be paying anything at all for the chasing?
cpa-firmsjudgmentchasingmethodDelete before you automate
Most automation copies the old process into software, every step intact. The subtraction method deletes the human-only steps first, then wires what is left to a machine.
If a step only exists because a human used to forget, is it a process, or is it a scar?
methodautomationfinance-teamsA machine does not forget
Deadlines in a finance team are lit by memory, and memory fails on the worst nights. Give the remembering to the machine and keep the decision.
When a deadline is missed because a person forgot, whose fault is it: the person, or the process that made a person the alarm clock?
methoddeadlinesreminderscfoPrivate limited company registration in India
What a private limited company is, who it suits, the SPICe+ steps, the documents, and what has to happen in the first months after incorporation.
Is a private limited company the right first structure, or the one people pick because everyone else did?
indiacompany-registrationprivate-limitedcompliance
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