Two practitioners get the same SMSF question on the same afternoon. One works in a large firm. She walks down the corridor, asks the technical partner, and has an answer before her coffee goes cold. The other is a sole practitioner in a regional town. There’s no corridor. Every second opinion is a paid one,…
Ask any SMSF partner where their week goes and you’ll rarely hear “answering technical questions”. Yet that’s exactly where a surprising amount of it disappears. Not because the questions are hard. Most aren’t — not for someone with 15 or 20 years in the sector. The time goes on everything around the answer. Stopping what…
In SMSF, a confident wrong answer is worse than no answer Most SMSF practitioners I speak with are already using AI. Some openly. Many quietly. That isn’t the problem. The problem is what happens when it’s wrong, and sounds right. Picture this. A junior accountant gets a question late in the day about a client’s…
