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With LinkedIn dominating the professional social media landscape, leaders who want to establish a brand must take heed of the pitfalls.

AI such as ChatGPT is changing the world as we know it. As a practitioner, can it help you better serve your clients, support your staff, and prepare you and your practice for the future? Let's first take a look at what ChatGPT is as we attempt to answer these questions. We will then provide an example of a conversation between this powerful AI chatbot and a hypothetical client and let you be the judge.

Founded in Hartford in 1961, Whittlesey is the largest Connecticut-based CPA and consulting firm. Recognized as a “Best of the Best Accounting Firm” by Inside Public Accounting, Whittlesey offers a comprehensive array of advisory, audit, client accounting services, tax, cybersecurity, and technology services to a broad range of businesses and individuals.

Here’s how small businesses can implement diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives to strengthen their culture and continue to evolve.

Anthony W. Cirone, Jr., CPA and managing partner of CironeFriedberg, LLP, has been elected to the Board of Trustees at Union Savings Bank, headquartered in Danbury, Conn.

Achieving maximum value from predictive analytics requires a robust strategy and a model with a human-centric design that is also appropriate to the business.

Many finance leaders have a hands-on approach to leadership, but most managers believe it impedes their ability to innovate.

The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) joined a coalition of organizations who have come together to make taxpayers and practitioners aware of the new Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reporting requirement. BOI is an anti-money laundering initiative enacted through the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) in 2021, which mandates that BOI information is reported to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).

On May 10, exactly three years and two months after Gov. Ned Lamont declared a public health emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, he declared it over.

The AICPA released an expanded plan Thursday focused on boosting the profession's talent pipeline. The detailed plan features input from a significant set of stakeholders and calls for those stakeholders to work together to increase the number of accounting graduates and the number of graduates who obtain CPA licensure.

A midnight rummage through your refrigerator won't result in the discovery of something manufactured by Southwire alongside your favorite brand of cheese, but that cheese might not smell so appetizing without Southwire.

CTCPA Announced its Accounting Scholarship Foundation's (ASF) scholarship winners and will hold a Recognition Reception for those individuals on Thursday, June 1.

The Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants (CTCPA) honored Bradley D. Kronstat, CPA of Guilford with the 2023 Jack Brooks Leadership Award recently at the CTCPA Annual Meeting.

The Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants (CTCPA) has elected and installed its Board of Directors for the 2023-2024 activity year.

CFOs who want to retain Gen Z employees — a group that will make up more than a quarter of the workforce by 2025 — should embrace technology.

A corporate leader felt strongly about addressing mental health in the workplace, so she wrote a book about it. Creating “a sense of belonging” is one first step for organisations.

Brian Desmond Faynor, CPA, a Supervisor at Burzenski & Company, earned the status of Certified Valuation Analyst on April 21, 2023 from the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (NACVA) ®

Our profession has in front of us the greatest opportunity for increased relevance and abundance that I have seen in 40 years. Demand for our services, skill sets, and leadership have never been higher. We can simply look at the growth percentages from the latest 2022 large firm reports and see that firms are growing at much faster rates due to this increased demand.

Already running high amid the profession's digital transformation, interest in artificial intelligence has exploded this year, with large numbers of firms weighing its applications. Accountants who are experimenting with these AI systems are already seeing results. Some report using it for generating marketing copy or internal staff memos. Others are exploring it as a research reference. One is even planning to use it to develop training videos to speed up employee development and onboarding.

Potential abuses of generative AI technology ChatGPT are causing concern as the phenomenon is likened to cryptocurrency scams.