Blake Oliver
Founder and CEO of Earmark CPE
Appears in 564 Episodes
Pricing For Profit: Unlocking Your Firm’s True Value (from The Earmark Podcast)
Earmark Media Presents a bonus episode of Earmark Podcast:Most accounting firms are dramatically underpricing their services, but the fear of losing clients keeps them...
Intuit Connect 2025: What's New With QuickBooks
Alicia Katz Pollock joins the show fresh from Intuit Connect with detailed notes on everything announced for QuickBooks Online and the accounting profession. The discu...
Burning It Down To Build Better: How Community Is Key To Battling Burnout (from The Earmark Podcast)
Earmark Media Presents a bonus episode of Earmark Podcast: Recorded live in Seattle at the first stop of the Advisory Amplified tour, Blake sits down with Madeline Ree...
BDO vs Going Concern, Trump's $3 Trillion Tariff Tax & Film Accountant's $2M Fraud
Blake and David cover BDO's legal threat against Going Concern over independence questions, Crowe hiring an investment bank to explore private equity options, and Trum...
Trump to Target IRS at Left-Leaning Groups & NASBA Needs An Audit
What if a “stable” coin wasn’t? Blake and David unpack Paxos’s accidental minting of $300 trillion in PayPal USD—and what it reveals about stablecoin “pegs.” They also...
Deloitte Caught Making AI Workslop, IRS Shutdown Continues
Could an AI catch what auditors and a CFO missed? This week, Blake and David unpack how a founder used Claude to scan QuickBooks and uncover a $2.1M embezzlement in 18...
WNBA Commissioner Has Worst Week of Any CPA
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Entry Level Auditor Jobs Fall 43% & the AI Workslop Heading Downstream
Blake and David examine the growing threat of AI-generated fake receipts, with 32% of accountants unable to recognize fraudulent documents and 30% reporting an increas...
Accounting Firm Revenues, Profits, Compensation Rise
Are accounting firms quietly having their best year ever? Blake and David break down why revenues and partner comp are rising—despite AI anxiety—and what it means for ...
The HIRE Act Would Tax Firms 25% for Offshore Labor
Blake and David examine several major developments affecting the accounting profession, including the proposed HIRE Act that would impose a 25% excise tax on offshore ...
Who Gets No Tax on Tips, Why Firms Struggle With Tech, Xero Updates
Are AI “super agents” like Xero’s Jax actually useful—or just shiny chatbots? Blake and David unpack Xerocon announcements, why embedded agents lack context, smarter w...
Excel Gets AI, FP&A Pros Under Threat, QBO AI Feeds Blowback
Are AI bank feeds helping—or just creating more work? Blake and David unpack Intuit’s missteps, why “use AI to make the rules” matters, and how a no‑code agent now pos...
AI Shakes Up Big Four Accounting Job Market
Can AI agents actually reduce your workload—or just add hype? Blake demos how he rebuilt bill-entry “Hubdoc-style” in about an hour with Zapier Agents, then maps out w...
Can ChatGPT Agent Mode Reconcile My Checking Account?
Can an AI reconcile your books while you sleep? Blake and David run a live experiment with ChatGPT-5’s Agent Mode in Xero—watching it match transactions, stumble on pr...
GPT-5 Launch & Charting Fail, Crazy $$$ Going Into AI Accounting Tech
Blake and David discuss how both AICPA and NASBA have officially endorsed a 120-hour CPA licensure pathway in the ninth edition of the Uniform Accountancy Act, validat...
Who's Most Likely to Quit Your Firm? & Higher Wages, Fewer Jobs
What happens when the traditional path from college to accounting career gets disrupted by AI and automation? This week, Blake and David explore who's most likely to q...
Colbert's Losing P&L, Impending AI Fraud Crisis, House Holds FASB Hostage
What happens when politicians threaten to cut funding from accounting standard-setters unless they eliminate specific rules? Blake and David explore unprecedented poli...
The $2T Stablecoin Opportunity for CPAs & Agentic AI in the Browser
What happens when a $2 trillion cryptocurrency market suddenly requires monthly audits? Blake and David break down the Genius Act, the new federal stablecoin legislati...
The Losers of AI & What CPAs Need to Know About OBBBA
Why is AI failing at basic accounting tasks while claiming to outsmart PhD students? Blake and David dive into the stark reality of AI implementation in accounting, fr...
When AI Decides Who Gets Promoted & Who's Going to Tax Prom?
What happens when AI decides who gets promoted and who gets fired? Blake and David dive into the shocking reality that 60% of managers now use AI for HR decisions, wit...
Xero Buys Melio, QuickBooks AI Agents Are Here, More Big Four Cheating
What happens when AI agents promise to transform accounting but create more cognitive burden than productivity gains? Blake and David explore the reality behind the AI...
Tariffs, Iran, PE, CPA Pipeline, PCAOB, SEC
What happens when 19 states simultaneously abandon the 150-hour CPA requirement while tariffs create unprecedented uncertainty for CFOs? Blake and CFO.com reporter Ada...
AICPA Doesn't Care If PCAOB Goes Away
What happens when venture capitalists spend billions on AI but need customers to buy it? In this episode, Blake and David explore how investment firms are now purchasi...
The Death of the Financial Close: Aaron Harris on AI's Accounting Revolution
Live from the Sage Future conference in Atlanta, Aaron Harris, CTO of Sage, joins Blake and David to explain why he wants to completely eliminate the financial close r...
Real Life Ways Accountants Use AI, How Sage Will Eliminate the Close
Blake and David return from Sage Future 2025 with insights into how AI is reshaping accounting—from eliminating the financial close to real-world use cases. They also ...
The $400 Million Question: Should Congress Eliminate the PCAOB?(From the Earmark Podcast)
Earmark Media Presents a bonus episode of Earmark Podcast: What happens when Congress votes to eliminate the watchdog that's overseen public company audits for two de...
Excel Still Trumps AI, Tariffs Under Threat, QBO Price Increases Justified?
What happens when a major newspaper publishes a summer reading list where only five of the 15 books actually exist? Blake and David explore this real example of AI-gen...
Beyond the Hype: Real-World AI in Accounting and Finance
How close are we to expense reports that create themselves? In this crossover episode recorded live at Emburse in Motion, Blake Oliver explores real-world AI implement...
One Big Beautiful Podcast Episode: Taxes, QuickBooks, & Tesla
What happens when Congress passes a $3.8 trillion deficit-increasing bill by just one vote while promising fiscal responsibility? Blake and David break down the "Big B...
Intuit's Tariff on Developers, Arizona Tariff Shelters, $1T Stolen Annually from US
Could the Pope be on the hook for US taxes? As the first American elected Pope, Leo XIV faces an unusual conundrum under US citizenship rules. Meanwhile, Intuit's cont...
