Thread by @JStaatsCPA

📢Accountants: Stop what you're doing and start learning #nocode

It's important to understand new automation tech is exponentially more accessible than what we've seen to-date

It will define the 2020s not just for our profession, but for a new, web-enabled business environment

Bank feeds & bank rules defined the 2010s

Nocode will define the 2020s in a more powerful way because it encompasses 👉all work👈

It will profoundly impact your clients, and once they discover it, they will be speaking a different business language to you. #taxtwitter

The cascading benefits of this tech will be the inflection point where you decide if you're the accountant that profits from automation, or the accountant that is replaced.

It wasn't until I replaced a lot of accountants that I accepted this was where we're headed 😟

Human nature's response: "they'll never automate X, I'm safe"

👉This is not a rationale to disregard innovation👈

Automation is not binary, it's a spectrum. Virtually every aspect of what we do today can stand to be more automated than it currently is.

⚠️ Be wary of anyone who says "they can never replace you".

We don't live in a black & white world. If they can replace 10% of you, 1 out of 10 us will be replaced.

I don't spend 90% of my time building human relationships.

But this is not a time for fear-mongering! This is a time of exponential opportunity for accountants 🎉

We are the last generation who will struggle through doing things in a manual way.

We've all thought, this junior associate will never do X, how will they understand Y?

The answer is, they won't!

So who better to build the future of accounting than you?

A future focused on people, not Work.

Outwardly our profession seems ripe for disruption; It's the reason Venture invests absurd amounts of money into Fintech.

*To a degree* they're right, but they overlook the nuance in what we do.

That's what makes you 👉🤓👈 the hero in this story

❓ Ok, what is "nocode"

Nocode tools unite the work we do regardless of where it happens

API connectors like @zapier connect web apps, scrapers pull data from legacy web tools, RPA manages tasks at the desktop-level.

These tools are now accessible to simpletons like you & I

❓ What do I stand to gain

1⃣ Personal productivity 📈
2⃣ Team productivity 📈📈📈
3⃣ Client productivity 📈x100

1⃣ Personal productivity

Start out with the goal to make yourself 2x more productive.

This is attainable within a reasonable amount of time (<2 years)

Once you've reached this threshold, your greatest gains will be had by pivoting your focus to your team & your clients

2⃣ Team productivity

Instill what you've learned into your team. Build a team around you that leans into these tools.

The benefits will be exponential as those team members then instill this approach into future team members.

3⃣ Client productivity

This is where the benefits are truly off the charts

If you're ahead of this movement, you can be the one to introduce it to your clients:

-Workshops
-Coaching
-Selling products

What started with your personal productivity can now be captured at scale.

Congrats if you've made it this far

I'm building a community of nocode accountants and I'd love for you to be part of it

This topic is important to me, and if you're still here then it must be important to you as well

The community will be small and hyper-engaged. The type of people who read a 20 tweet thread about this.

We will solve for 1, 2 & 3 above, and it will be accessible for 👉all👈

Here's a janky cactus landing page. I look forward to collaborating: mailchi.mp/d4956364c8b7/n…