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Real Estate Services

Sales Executive

Dealing with clients who have unrealistic expectations. They often want to see properties that are way outside their budget or have a list of demands that are difficult to meet in their desired area. It can be challenging to manage their expectations while still trying to find solutions that make them happy. Sometimes, despite all my efforts, clients end up disappointed, which can be really disheartening. It feels like I'm constantly balancing their dreams with the reality of the market.

Taylor Sekyi

Technology Development

Manager

The biggest pain point we see today is the silos in supporting health care as a whole. Each department in a single health system can be so disparate from the other that it makes supporting the continuum of care more difficult than it should be. It also makes the support of each department from a technology department even more difficult.

Adam

Accountant

My biggest issue is that I rely on clients providing me with their tax paperwork in order to prepare their returns. They often procrastinate or have trouble locating the documents resulting in a backlog of returns that need to be prepared last minute before the due date.

Paul

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Accountant

The largest pain points my company experiences is transferring data from DOS platforms to current technologies due to security, capacity and funding issues. Our company struggles at obtaining and implementing new software and communication options for the general public. We continue to use paper communications in a digital world which affects our efficiency and effectiveness around customer service.

Courtney

accountant

i face issues with suppliers changing prices abruptly all the time which affects payments structure sometimes because the end users are already familiar with the current prices and has paid with that rate having to pay an increased price is detrimental to the business

tiny

Bookkeeper

I believe that some of the softwares are outdated and it slows the our accounting process

Alvin Chen

Senior Audit Associate

Poorly planned budgets

Andrew

nonprofit services

Director of Finance

The lack of specific inventory systems for a food cupboard. Our donations are all different skus and nothing we’ve seen can handle it. Now we only inventory by weight

Roger Lynch

Senior Acountant

Insufficient staffing; knowledge gap of new hires not understanding real work accounting work; constant deadlines that at times have unresponsive clients

RH

Senior accountant

Manually reconciling accounts is time-consuming and prone to errors.

Brent Riley

Financial controller

One of the biggest pain points is managing and consolidating financial data from multiple departments. The current software we use for accounting lacks integration capabilities, which causes delays and errors in producing reports.

Reagan Bowen

Construction Technology

Tax Accountant

The main challenge is Complex-Based Accounting. This involves multiple cost centres, sub contractors and different timelines. It becomes challenging to track and allocate costs to each project for tax purposes,and this becomes harder when the software doesn't fully integrate like all the aspects of project accounting.

Mark Keegan

Accounting Manager

There is constant theft happening in our hotel, from the bartenders to the kitchen. Employees somehow find a way to short our inventory by either taking inventory or using it themselves. We have a monthly shortage of $900 to $1100 per month.

Wesley

Accountant

Many of the people I work with are incredibly withdrawn and introverted, which comes with the territory, but also leads to some headbutting from time to time. For example, our finance director (who is a CPA) had to hold a gentle-parenting style group meeting for 30-40 something year old adults because there were intense verbal arguments about which eProcurement group to go with (we were stuck between Open.Gov and PlanetBids hahaha)

Ashlynn Hammond

Tax Preparer

website issues, error messages. unable to file return unless errors are addressed. unclear as to how to redress errors.

Daniel Kim

Accountant

The biggest pain point is clients who procrastinate on giving us information we need and/or not giving us everything that we need in order to help them with preparing their tax return or with bookkeeping.

Kelly

staff accountant

Entering vendor invoices. If only there was a way for the computer to read an invoice and know the vendor name and enter the invoice number with the invoice date and invoice amount and expense the correct account.

Lam Dang

Accountant

Clients can be the toughest people to deal with. They expect fast turnaround on our end with little acceptance of responsibility on theirs. From lack of communication to straight up ignoring requests for documentation, it can be a struggle. It clogs up our process and gets other employees behind. We have utilized a new forum that allows for all documentation to be submitted by clients digitally in their own client portal if they feel like it. This has helped.

Davis

Senior auditor

Budgeting audit jobs vs actual work hours worked or needing to work & Clients giving us bad files

Will

accountant

One of the most significant challenges I face is managing and reconciling client data from multiple sources (e.g., bank statements, payroll systems, and client-provided spreadsheets). It’s time-consuming and causes inconsistencies and delays.

Alexis Palto

auditor

When having to pay an OSB we send out checks via regular mail from our office in Memphis. This leads to checks taking forever to arrive or checks being lost in transit.

sal figueroa

Finance

Overall, I hate being micromanaged. I get on my phone for ONE minute and I get complaints that I "use my phone all the time". As long as I get my work done I should not have to worry about this.

Jennifer Serrano

Forensic Accountant

We currently store files and do file sharing in too many locations. There are just too many softwares being used as compared to all my previous jobs, which makes it difficult to track down required documents quickly. This results in inefficiency on a daily basis.

Karen Zhou

Technology Development

IT Support

I wish we could improve our productivity by reworking our schedules for our tech support department. The current schedule have workers on weekends four weeks at a time and rotating with other techs.

Randy

eCommerce Marketer

Managing multiple platforms to make sales, in addition to my own website, can be a headache at times. The different platforms have their own set of rules and fees you have to abide by, with some products not being allowed on them, making it difficult to keep track. When updates or changes are made on one platform, I have to manually adjust everything which takes up a large majority of my time that I could be doing something else more important to my business. It's also difficult to make an SEO optimized product listing, and sometimes, that doesn't guarantee any views in the search bar. The algorithms are all over the place. It's also difficult to keep track of all my inventory, especially when making a sale, as I have to find items because I don't have the best system in place yet. Finally, having to respond to numerous customer messages can be overwhelming.

Megan Marshall

Owner/Manager

What's the best way to stay up to date with the latest search trends? I see emails and get charts but none of them are actually up to date or reflect the absolute most current trends. Going site by site and sales by sales seems way too involved

Tara

Technology Development

IT Security Analyst

I have a wide knowledge about my work but lately I daily have issue with monitoring my organization network. I know this put my organization at risk of breaches and I hope I really solve that.

Lauretta Jenkins

Business Manager

Not having software that properly supports managing projects. I am a part of a company of 100,000+ employees and there is not a solution that meets our need. Project managers utilize Microsoft project which is often overly complicated for our needs, as well as only available to project management teams. We are on jira which is governed globally and workflows and customizations are governed by software teams. Way to complex and kanban boards do not effects manage the whole project. Also only allowed to have one project.

Maria