About Me

I'm an accounting and finance leader who sees an opportunity to transform tedious financial work and grow accountants and analysts using free tools already at finance's disposal.

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My CPA Revolution journey

In July 2018, I stumbled upon Power Query ("PQ") (then called "Get + Transform") and immediately realized, "Wow, I've been doing things the hard, long way".  I was fortunate to have access to some great online learning tools, and so I punched in 'Power Query' and felt like Alice falling down the rabbit hole.  I ate the cake and kept wandering further in to Wonderland.

I hosted sessions at my office and trained more than 40 people on how to get started using these amazing tools.  In the second half of 2018, everyone I spoke with probably got a plug for PQ.  And to my amazement, I uncovered that almost no accountants were using these efficient and powerful tools.  I became Curiouser and curiouser!

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Training

I bought nearly every book on PQ, scoured YouTube, reviewed blogs and training courses, and started to build files using these tools.  "So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that [I] had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible" (Alice in Wonderland)

And I wanted to share these impossible things with people just like you: but, there wasn't a comprehensive course, blog, course, or book that I could recommend for accountants.  Most of the content was written by macro-writing, SQL-using, IT oriented users who are at a much different point on the Excel path than the typical accountant (staff to controller). What I needed was a set of instruction sheets where I could direct people, "hey, have you tried this?"

And so, a need was born.

Welcome to the journey!


Amanda Mathis, MBA, CMA, CPA