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AccountDadsAuthor: Ash, Hubert & Kevin Pod
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! Language: en Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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EP 22: What Nobody Tells You Before You Offshore Your Finance Team
Friday, 6 November, 2026
"The best use of AI in finance isn't writing prettier commentary. It's asking better questions faster."In this episode, Kevin and Ash (both Chartered Accountants) get practical about how finance people should actually use AI — not as a gimmick, and not even as a chatbot most people are using it poorly, but as leverage to think, question and operate more commercially.They get into:• Why most finance people aren't even using AI as a chatbot effectively• AI as a question generator & sounding board — getting the bad ideas out fast• Ed Sheeran's "dirty tap" — speed and volume first, judgment second• How AI changes the way you consume knowledge (the Nathan Cleary / Penrith example)• AI as a process lens — mapping workflows, spotting bottlenecks, drafting SOPs• Turning a meeting transcript into a process-flow map (the consulting cheat code)• What AI should never own alone — judgment, sign-offs, commercial calls• Professional skepticism: why you still validate everything AI hands you• Why LLMs predict words, they don't calculate — and the setup that fixes itIf you want to use AI to become a more commercial finance operator, Join Ash and Kevin on this week’s episode!
