The Accounting Podcast | How Excel Helped Win (Steal?) the World Series

How Excel Helped Win (Steal?) the World Series

February 10, 2020 / 54:08/E159

In this episode: How Intuit plans to recruit QuickBooks Live bookkeepers inside of QBO (could they be coming after your staff?); Chase's WePay could turn into a general ledger app; the MyPayroll HR bank gets sued; AICPA CEO Melancon says CPA licensing is under threat, but is it, really? And more!

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Show Notes

03:03 – Oh, my! What big FAANGs you have! These five tech players have a combined $4.1 trillion market cap | Investopedia
05:22 – Setting the accounting world on fire – well, at least part of it | Sawyer County Record
06:09 – Cash is still king in NYC | NYT
08:06 – How the Astros brought their C (for cheat) game | WSJ
13:49 – Sage Marketplace offers over 100 ways to customize Sage Biz Cloud | Sage
14:14 – Gusto Cashout service is now free for employees | Gusto
16:05 – Acumatica beefs up its payroll features and integrations | Accounting Today
18:04 – KPMG buys stake in LumaTax | Accounting Today
19:00 – Visor takes a new approach with Get Grid | Get Grid
22:47 – Etsy – "Mistakes certainly do happen ..." continues plaguing sellers with an array of accounting headaches | eCommerce Bytes
23:37 – Facebook and the IRS square off over a measly $9 billion | WSJ
28:31 – Pioneer Bank faces the music for its actions, or lack thereof re: MyPayrollHR | The Daily Gazette
30:42 – AICPA see deregulation as a huge threat to CPA licensure | Accounting Today
38:06 – Help Wanted – Intuit is looking for QBLive bookkeepers, and they're not afraid to advertise inside of QBOA | Facebook
41:28 – BOA could hit Intuit where it hurts | PYMNTS.com
42:30 – WePay – Scaling the Books? | WePay
43:30 – United Airlines takes a train-them-yourself approach to hiring | CNBC buys
43:45 – Try, try, try again - KPMG relaunches Spark | KPMG Spark
47:58 – Overruled - UpCounsel shuts down | LawSites
49:05 – Comings and Goings: Damien Greathead moves to Practice Ignition, and Jody Padar joins Botkeeper | Insightful Accountant/Accounting Today
49:43 – Jumping ship or business as usual? Intuit's Alex Chriss dumps a huge chunk of his Intuit holdings | Yahoo! Finance
- Chriss's Intuit trading history over the past year might provide some perspective | Wallmine

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