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A USB keypad could pass for an accountant’s best friend.<\/p>\nA USB keypad could pass for an accountant’s best friend.<\/p>\n
No surprises here – anything that allows an accountant to use Excel<\/a> more efficiently is beloved by accountants. Among the jumble of mice, keyboards, AC adapters, screen protectors<\/a>, and unused laptop locks – the USB keypad is the most useful to an accountant.<\/p>\n A USB keypad is a computer peripheral that lets accountants type much faster than the row of numbers found at the top of the keyboard. The USB keypad is taken for granted, except for when it’s missing. Once it is gone, an accountant will spend all their energy tracking down a spare USB keypad.<\/p>\n Fancier USB keypads have spare USB ports, function as standalone calculators, or work wirelessly.<\/p>\n If you see an accountant using a laptop’s trackpad<\/a> and no attached USB keypad, it is safe to assume that they’re new to the profession. However, this can get tricky since an accountant without a USB keypad could be so old to the profession that they have people to do the number crunching for them – so they wouldn’t need a USB keypad.<\/p>\n While USB keypads appear to be going the way of the floppy drive<\/a>, this couldn’t be further from the truth. With smaller notebooks like netbooks<\/a> and touchscreen<\/a> devices, nothing can match the ability of a $15 USB keypad to get numbers into Excel<\/a> and get things done.<\/p>\n While you can’t give an accountant a USB keypad as a gift (since it’s given they already own one), you can use the USB keypad to distinguish between the good and bad accountants. An accountant with a USB keypad, mouse, extra monitor, etc. will get a hundred more things done than an accountant who relies on the trackpad and looking at the top of their keyboard to enter numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A USB keypad could pass for an accountant’s best friend. No surprises here – anything that allows an accountant to use Excel more efficiently is beloved by accountants. Among the jumble of mice, keyboards, AC adapters, screen protectors, and unused laptop locks – the USB keypad is the most useful to an accountant. A USB […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[152,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}