Your Accountant Is Costing You More Than You Think | Vlad Sharuda

Vlad Sharuda is the co-founder and Head of Growth at Skrooge AI, a Dubai-based startup combining AI with human accountants to give SMEs the financial clarity that was previously only available to large corporations. In this episode we get into how to spot a bad accountant before they cost you, why most founders have a broken relationship with their numbers, what the UAE's new corporate tax really means, and why they deliberately kept humans at the centre of an AI product.Last Message: "Keep going, it's a numbers game"0:00 Intro3:01 Vlad's Story10:22 How to Avoid a Bad Accountant13:04 Why Founders Struggle With Accounting 20:19 What Is Open Banking?22:28 How to Use Accounting as a Core Business Function27:40 What Makes a Great Accountant?30:35 What Every Founder Needs to Know About Tax34:13 Why Prep Work Is the Most Underrated Part of Accounting37:58 Why Vlad Kept a Human Accountant Inside an AI Product46:20 How Skrooge is Built Around Founder Pain Points51:14 Accounting Challenges Between Big & Small Firms58:00 Raising Funding in the UAE1:04:33 Proud1:06:26 Last MessageFollow Vlad:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladsharuda/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vsharuda/Website: https://skrooge.ai/Follow Hope It Helps:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khaled-abuljebain/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hopeithelpspod/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hopeithelpspodWebsite: www.hopeithelps.netReady to stand out? Let’s launch your podcast NOW!: https://calendly.com/hopeithelps/podcast-launch