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Welcome to the Ash, Hubert & Kevin Pod (AHK). We share finance stories, lessons, and mistakes to help business owners and finance pros understand sometimes complex concepts. Our aim is for you to leave each episode thinking, "Ah, okay. I get it now." About the hosts: Ash: Husband, dad, and strategic finance leader with more qualifications than letters in the alphabet. Hubert: Husband, dad, and the technical finance leader with a passion for anything with engines. Kevin: Husband, dad, finance leader by day, side hustle builder by night!

  1. 5d ago

    EP 15: Stop Chatting, Start Configuring: The Accountant's Guide to Setting Up Claude

    Most of us are driving a supercar in first gear. Same AI model, same power, but only a few finance leaders know how to actually configure it. In this episode, we walk through the exact setup I gave my own team: how to turn Claude from a glorified chatbot into a genuine thinking partner for your business. Accountants don’t have capability gaps if they put in the work…remember, you are already brilliant. You just need to work on configuring the tools at your disposal and spending time in them!  What we cover:  – Choosing the right model (and why Opus is great for reasoning + checking its own work) – Privacy settings you MUST turn off on a personal plan before adding company data – Building context & memory so Claude actually knows your business – Global instructions vs. project-specific instructions – Chat vs. Cowork vs. Claude Code — when to use each – Using Projects to segment work and give Claude your chart of accounts, board packs & budgets – Skills: automating repeatable jobs (like month-end) so they run the same way every time – Connectors: linking Xero, your ERP & GL- or using a tool like Safra There are two types of accountant: the one who re-explains the entity structure every single month, and the one who spends the time to set it up once so it's replicable. Both use the same tool. Only one builds a brain. Your homework: do this for your business, your client, or even your personal finances. Want sample data to play with? Drop a comment and we'll send it over. 👉 If any of this resonated or you want a deep dive on one of these features, let us know in the comments or DM us.

  2. Jul 30

    EP 14: The 12 AI Workflows Aussie Finance Teams Are Actually Using (a recruiter asked 50 CFOs)

    "I don't think I'll ever hire a financial accountant again." That's a real CFO, talking to a real recruiter, about a real decision he's already made. Tom Hunter runs Story Recruitment and hosts The CFO Track. He spent months interviewing Australian finance leaders about how they're actually using AI — not the LinkedIn version — and packaged it into a free practical workflow guide. We sat down to go through it. 📄 Link to the AI in Finance — Practical Workflow Guide:  https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tom-hunter-story_ai-in-finance-workflow-guide-story-recruitment-ugcPost-7473132331864702977--msC/ What we got into:  — Why only ~15% of businesses have genuinely embedded AI into BAU (up from 10% a year ago), and why everyone else is quietly panicking for no reason — The AP team that went from 3–4 officers plus a manager down to 1–2 staff — The double standard: a human at 98% is "fantastic," an AI at 98% is "not trustworthy" — Why the AI wizard doesn't get the job, and the communicator does — What "good with AI" actually means when a CFO asks for it — The one risk Tom flags for every finance professional — How he built TomBot with zero technical background If you work in finance and you've been told you're behind on AI: you're probably not. But you probably should start. 👤 Tom Hunter, founder of Story Recruitment — finance recruitment for Australian startups, from first finance hire to CFO recruitment.

  3. Jul 21

    EP 13 : From individual Contributor to Leader, What Were Our Learnings.

    This is a practical discussion based on real-world experience, not management theory. Based on the previous episode, the AccountDads reflect on areas such as organisation maturity, team, sporting reflections, recruiting to collaborating. What’s worked and what's not worked. You get the real insight from the leaders who have navigated their own paths and created their own styles.

  4. Jun 23

    EP 12: Management Styles of a Finance Leader

    We get asked in interviews sometimes what management style do we prefer. Now is this something you have thought about. It is said that “People don't quit jobs, they quit bosses”. So what style is the right style. Do different styles work with different people. Today we will explore some of these styles and discuss why they do work or don’t work.

  5. Jun 9

    EP 11: 10 Powerful AI Lessons From Anthropic CFO

    If you're not getting hands-on with AI tools and rethinking your own processes, you're making yourself replaceable, and someone else is already doing it. This one's for finance managers and leaders who suspect the game is shifting but haven't felt the urgency yet. The trigger was a real conversation with a peer finance leader, and it opened up a live debate: are senior leaders wrong to delegate the tools downward? Three anchors drive the episode: the skill that's quietly replacing technical accounting ability, why the month-end pack has become the most expensive low-value deliverable in finance, and what Anthropic's approach to compute reveals about the CFO's actual job: identifying the scarce resource in your business and making sure it flows to the highest-value work.

  6. Jun 1

    EP 10: 3 Western Sydney Accountants Tear Apart the New Budget 

    The government said they wouldn't touch the tax rules. Then they came for CGT, negative gearing, trusts… and gave us a $250 offset that doesn't even kick in until 2027. 🙃 This week Hubert finally gets his 30 minutes to vent about the budget — and Kevin and Ash don't hold back either. We dig into what actually changed, why there's so much hate towards it, and whether ANY of it makes sense long-term. We also break down the budget replies from the Liberals and One Nation, plus we ran an AI analysis on all three parties' economic policies to see who actually came out on top from a business and investment lens. (Spoiler: it's not who the government wanted.) ⚠️ This is NOT us waving a flag for any party. We're accountants and business owners looking at the facts — and we want YOUR pushback in the comments. In this episode:  🔹 The broken tax promises (and why trust is the real issue)  🔹 CGT, negative gearing & the trust changes nobody saw coming  🔹 The $250 offset… and why it's basically useless  🔹 Housing: supply, demand, immigration & where tradies fit in 🔹 Government spending vs GDP — how we stack up against China  🔹 Net zero, energy policy & ageing infrastructure  🔹 Privatisation: smart move or selling the family silver?  🔹 Income splitting & why it could be a game-changer for families  🔹 The AI verdict: who had the best economic policy? 👇 Drop your thoughts and pushbacks in the comments — what did we get wrong? What should we dig into next episode? 👍 Like & subscribe if you want more no-BS finance and business chat.

  7. May 20

    EP 9 : 10 Things in the 2026 Budget Nobody Is Talking About (From an Accountant) 

    Everyone's talking about CGT, negative gearing, and the 30% trust tax. But there are 10 other items buried in this budget that quietly change the game for Aussie businesses, founders, and accountants, and almost nobody is covering them. We break down what is buried in the fine print — no spin, no opinion, just what's actually in there and what it means for you. If you're a business owner, CFO, or accountant — these are the moves to start thinking about now, not in 2028. 👇 Drop your own budget observations in the comments — we're covering this in more detail next week with the full squad. Like, subscribe, and join the AccountDads community.

  8. Apr 26

    Claude AI 101 for Accountants: Part 2

    We gave AI our messy ERP data, a budget model, and a list of management decisions. Here's what happened. This is Part 2 of our AI series — if you missed Part 1, go watch that first (linked below). In this episode, Kevin and Ash take the next step up the AI maturity ladder: from sifting transactions to actually building and updating a full financial model using Claude Projects. We walk through a live demo using a fictional cabinet manufacturing business — loading April actuals from an ERP export, rolling the model forward, adding new hires, tweaking revenue assumptions, and generating a three-scenario analysis. All from a prompt and a couple of uploaded files. In this episode: How to set up Claude Projects as a persistent FP&A workspace for a clientWriting guardrails that stop AI from hallucinating financial factsRolling actuals forward and updating a forecast in real timeRunning a sensitivity analysis and three-scenario (downside / base / upside) comparisonGenerating a management dashboard and director talking points — automatically

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Welcome to the Ash, Hubert & Kevin Pod (AHK). We share finance stories, lessons, and mistakes to help business owners and finance pros understand sometimes complex concepts. Our aim is for you to leave each episode thinking, "Ah, okay. I get it now." About the hosts: Ash: Husband, dad, and strategic finance leader with more qualifications than letters in the alphabet. Hubert: Husband, dad, and the technical finance leader with a passion for anything with engines. Kevin: Husband, dad, finance leader by day, side hustle builder by night!

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  • Creator
    Ash, Hubert & Kevin Pod
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    75
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Ash, Hubert & Kevin Pod
  • Show Website
    AccountDads