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Show Notes
- 00:22 – Can you charge premium fees if you call yourself a bookkeeper?
- 01:11 – What are the odds that David will escape federal grand jury duty and get to attend Accountex 2019?
- 02:56 – Meghan shares the inspiration behind the Inclusion Without Assimilation - Encouraging Diversity and Inclusion within the Accounting, Finance and Fintech world event, featuring some of The Cloud Accounting Podcast’s former guests – Jina Etienne, and Nayo Carter-Gray
- 07:57 – The reviews are in! David and Blake run down some more reviews of the show from iTunes and Podchaser
- 10:37 – Intuit’s ecosystem, and revenue continue to grow, according to their latest earnings report | Intuit
- 13:20 – Well, they do say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery .. QuickBooks’ latest addition, employee benefits options, looks a lot like Gusto’s product offering | Intuit QuickBooks
- 15:07 – The Xero-OnPay partnership - in search of a bountiful harvest from the ag industry | Xero Blog
- 15:32 – In light of Expensify’s recent CPE-credit offering, Blake explains why this might be a no-brainer when it comes to increasing engagement | Business Wire
- 18:07 – Cash – more than $6 billion of it - is still king in some of Uber’s global locations | MarketWatch
- 21:31 – Strategic move or smokescreen? UPS eliminates 60+ accounting jobs in Texas | The Dallas Morning News
- 24:13 – Tax preparers who don’t raise their rates are leaving a load of money on the table | Accounting Today
- 26:15 -- Meghan talks about changing the scope of services along with raising rates, and why bookkeepers are typically the first to try out new strategies, like perpetual accounting | CPA Practice Advisor
- 27:55 – 34.3 billion reasons the IRS needs a bigger budget | Indiana University
- 29:07 -- Why Matt Paff (another former CAP guest) is showing MYOB the door | LinkedIn
- 30:53 – In the aftermath of last week’s WeWork discussion, a listener, Amy Walker, CPA, shared how she’s witnessed coworking spaces, like WeWork, evolve into more of an enterprise solution
- 32:55 – A Work-from-Anywhere strategy benefits both companies and their employees | Harvard Business Review
- 34:43 – Can help desk software help accounting firms help their customers? | Future Firm
- 37:19 If you’re not into more software, Blake, David, and Meghan share some other strategies for tackling customer service
- 39:00 – Bookkeepers, who’s really your client? Why there’s more value-add when books are done for the business, not just the tax return | AccountingWEB
Connect with Meghan Blair-Valero
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoggedInbooks
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghan-blair-valero-6825b11b/
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