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Playing With FIRE: The New Complexities Of Developing A Personal Retirement Investment Plan

Dec 13, 2025

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Michael Kraten

in Investment Planning

What aspirational message would you expect to see in the marketing material of a major retirement investment firm? Something, perhaps, that encourages investors to save aggressively, retire early, and live a long life of luxurious wealth? That type of message has long been featured in such campaigns. The expression Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE), for…
Concerned That A.I. Will Destroy Your Accounting Career? Establish Your Future In The Profession’s One (Obvious) Area Of Job Growth

Nov 23, 2025

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by

Michael Kraten

in Artificial Intelligence, Public Accounting Industry

Last week, at TXCPA Houston’s annual Fall Accounting Conference & Technology Symposium (F.A.C.T.S.), speaker after speaker addressed the future prospects of A.I. Although much of the content was optimistic in tone, an undercurrent of concern permeated the presentations. Why? It’s likely that A.I. applications will soon be capable of performing many current human functions in…