Spreadsheet

The benchmarks lend weight to the pitch.

State-of-the-art results on frontier math tier four, near perfect scores on ARC-AGI3, and an ability to drive browsers, spreadsheets and desktop software much as a person would.

The ARC Prize Foundation, however, published two figures ninety-nine point nine percent inside OpenAI's own testing harness and sixty-two point seven percent inside its own。It is not claiming AGI, it said.

The launch also arrived under a shadow.

Mm-hmm.

And you could even have a spreadsheet with the names and who's li- where...

It, it could be, like, your thing.

Yeah.

Document, Dokument.

Spreadsheets are table-like files used for calculations, data analysis, and charts typically handled by spreadsheet software.

Spreadsheet, Tabellenkalkulation.

Presentations consist of slides that display information in meetings or lectures, usually created with presentation tools like PowerPoint.

Presentation, Präsentation.

It's so nice.

Are you type A or type B, Robin? Oh, I mean,

Emily, have you heard me talk about my spreadsheets? And if you could see if our listeners could see Steph's face, she's like, if you say anything other than A, I'll have something to say about it.

Because I struggle, like, I think I actually am type B. Oh, stop it.

I do.

If you're in QuickBooks, go ahead and pull up your profit and loss report for the year through the prior month.

Or if you're in a spreadsheet, just total everything up that you've recorded as sales for the year through the prior month.

Once you have that number pulled up, I want you to go into your point of sale system.

If you're in Shopify, you're going to look at your analytics, then reports, then specifically the finance summary report, and run that from January 1st through the end of last month.

The key is you want to have a way to actually find those mistakes so you can fix them.

And since we just identified the mistake, let's get them fixed.

The bad news is, though, if you're using a spreadsheet for your bookkeeping, this process isn't as easy unless you kind of completely overhaul your spreadsheet.

I do have a custom spreadsheet template that I've built specifically for Shopify users to be able to literally plug in your information from that finance summary report you have in front of you.

I'll put a link to it down in the show notes.

The spreadsheet's kind of a lot.

I would recommend throwing it into an AI assistant and kind of querying it from there because it's like 5,000 records of information.

All right, interesting insight number one.

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My friends, lovely to see you today.

Make sure you swipe that spreadsheet with all the accounting firm sale data.

Like grab that because it's actually really, really interesting.

You start saving and investing 50% of your income and spending the other 50%.

Did you have a FI plan mapped out? Because I remember for me, when I first discovered FI, I built this whole spreadsheet.

I'm like, I got my then girlfriend, now wife.

I'm like, hey, babe, look, if we work for the next seven or eight years and save 80% of our income, we can hit FI and retire and work will become optional.

Did you have this spreadsheet and this destination date in mind that work would become optional and you could quit that corporate job? Oh, Cody, I didn't have one spreadsheet.

I had multiple spreadsheets, man.

I'm a spreadsheet nerd.

I love spreadsheets.

All right, let's get into today's episode.

I know some of you are still tracking your boutique's numbers in a spreadsheet.

And I also know that some of you are probably avoiding QuickBooks because it feels intimidating, like this whole new language you just don't have time to learn.

But today I want to lay out the pros and cons of both options using a spreadsheet or QuickBooks and give you my recommendations so you can actually make an informed decision instead of just going with whichever option scares you less.

Let's dive in.

Hey there, and welcome to the Boutique Bookkeeper Show, where we take the mystery out of your money and make your numbers make sense.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Boutique Bookkeeper Show.

I'm Megan and today we are going to be talking about two popular options when it comes to tracking the money, aka doing your bookkeeping, for your boutique.