32. How to make the four-day week work for accountants

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Ryan David
July 12, 2023

Accountants Chat Australia

Welcome to edition 32 of the Accountants Chat Australia newsletter.

A few months back I had a need to start analysing Xero data in Power BI/Excel. I found the current solutions to be a bit underwhelming and over complicated.

I’ve been working away at a dead simple solution to this need, but my personal use case is very niche.

If you work with Xero data in Excel/ Power BI(or would like to) and are happy to help me streamline this process/discover other pain points please check out this quick survey here. I know we’re all super busy this time of year so it will only take a minute or two and really help me out.

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