Blake Oliver
Founder and CEO of Earmark CPE
Appears in 499 Episodes
Is the billable hour making a comeback?
Blake and David dig into the news over Thanksgiving weekend, including how Gusto and Zenefits have abruptly ended key integrations, what accounting firms can learn fro...
Let's talk subscription revenue models π Live at Sage Intacct Advantage
During Sage Intacct Advantage 2019, we took some time to speak with David Appel, Head of Software and Saas Vertical at Sage Intacct about how maximizing value creation...
Career path: CPA β‘ CFO β‘ CEO π Live at Sage Intacct Advantage
At Sage Intacct Advantage 2019, we had the privilege of speaking with Laura Wiler, Vice President, Finance and Business Operations at Sage Intacct, about her career tr...
Family offices: How the ultra-wealthy manage their money π Live at Sage Intacct Advantage
How do the ultra-ultra-ultra-ULTRA-wealthy manage all that money? Some utilize what is known as a family office. We sat down with Angelo Robles, Founder and CEO of Fam...
Is bookkeeping a $10 billion market opportunity? Intuit thinks so
All the news that's fit to account for, including: Bill.com files for $100M IPO; Sage releases their full year 2019 results; Intuit releases Q1 earnings; Bench partner...
Eliminating the financial close with AI π Live at Sage Intacct Advantage
"AI changes everything" β that was one of the themes of the Sage Intacct Advantage conference this fall. To discuss what that means for the Intacct product, we're join...
How DonorsChoose scaled to $100M+ on cloud ERP π Live at Sage Intacct Advantage
Not-for-profits aren't always thought of as the most innovative companies, but the accounting team at DonorsChoose shatters that stereotype. Learn how they've grown to...
What is mid-market and why should accountants care? π Live at Sage Intacct Advantage 2019
Founded in 1999, Sage Intacct was one of the earliest cloud accounting applications on the market β and now one of the most successful. That's why David and Blake were...
Intuit acquires ChronoBooks & news from Xerocon London
David and Blake are back from weeks on the road and ready to dig into the news, including: Intuit has acquired ChronoBooks to bundle with QBO Advanced; Xero released t...
A rundown of QuickBooks Online news from #QBConnect
We're recording at QuickBooks Connect 2019 in San Jose with David DiNardo, owner of ENVOLTA Inc (one of the fastest-growing cloud accounting firms in Canada), and Vale...
Getting to know Acuity LIVE from AcuityCon in Atlanta
When Kenji Kuramoto and Matthew May founded Acuity, an innovative, cloud-based financial services firm, could they have possibly imagined that they would someday be ho...
#AccountexUSA: Meet Cash Flow Mike
Mike Milan AKA "Cash Flow Mike" is one of the highest-rated instructors at the nationβs most prestigious banking schools on the topic of financial management for small...
#AccountexUSA: Getting to know the Latino market
Blake and David sat down with Jose Zavala and Tony Martinez at Accountex USA in Boston this past summer to learn about the quickly expanding Latinx market for accounti...
Want to be a co-host at QuickBooks Connect?
David and Blake want one of our listeners that are attending QuickBooks Connect to help us co-host an episode of the podcast. Give it a listen for the details.
#AccountexUSA: What do accountants care about? We ask the editors
What is top of mind for accountants these days? How do they view automation and the endless entreaties by influencers in the profession to dump compliance and shift to...
Why GAAP is outdated & news from Sage Intacct Advantage
David and Blake are recording live at Sage Intacct Advantage and ready to share the latest news about Sage β But first! β We dial up Ethan Rouen of the Harvard Busines...
Square Books is here β is accounting next?
We've seen a photo of Michael Mann! Also, Square released Square Books, which Blake and David suspect could one day soon power a Square Accounting product β which coul...
#AccountexUSA: Making remote work... work!
We're joined for a second time, at Accountex USA in Boston, by Roman H. Kepczyk, CPA, and Director of Firm Technology Strategy for Right Networks. This time we're exam...
#AccountexUSA: Ransomware is rampant
Roman H. Kepczyk, CPA, Director of Firm Technology Strategy for Right Networks, joined the show at Accountex in Boston to talk security for accounting and bookkeeping ...
Everyone wants to be a bank for small business
In this episode, there's a ton of accounting and bookkeeping news! QuickBooks might now be bigger than Xero in the UK, Expensify launches a commercial card, Veem and X...
#AccountexUSA: Fraud can be funny (and fun) when you're Dawn Brolin
The insightful and hilarious accounting rockstar Dawn Brolin, CFE, CPA, joins Blake and David at Accountex in Boston to talk about everyone's favorite topic, FRAUD! Fr...
David & Blake get schooled!
We're joined by Jennifer Johnson, CPA, and Sr. Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Texas at Dallas, along with her entire Accounting Information Systems class ...
The best job in America... is for accountants!
It's a jam-packed episode of accounting and bookkeeping news, including: CPA Practice Advisor announces the 2019 "40 Under 40"; Sage acquires AutoEntry; a CPA exam in ...
#AccountexUSA: Your accounting firm might be subject to sales tax
The sales tax implications of the South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. United States Supreme Court decision are far reaching β perhaps even more than accountants and bookkeep...
Lawyer up! The MyPayrollHR fraud saga continues
Gustoβs Will Lopez joins us to give his take on the continuing MyPayrollHR fraud saga. This week, Cachet gets hit with multiple class-action suits; Michael Mann, CEO o...
Going deep on the MyPayrollHR fraud with Wendy Slavkin of Cachet Financial Services
SPECIAL BREAKING NEWS EPISODE: Wendy Slavkin, General Counsel for Cachet Financial Services, joins Blake and David to discuss the MyPayrollHR fraud story. Wendy, who p...
#AccountingShowLA: The Insanity of Cannabis Accounting & Tax
At the 2019 Accounting & Finance Show L.A., we met up with cannabis accounting experts, Bruce and Thomas Andersen to learn some of the ins and outs of accounting for c...
Everything we know about the $35 million MyPayrollHR payroll fraud
This week in accounting & bookkeeping news, we've got continuing coverage on the mind-boggling $35 million MyPayrollHR fraud. In other news, QuickBooks Live is trying ...
Did Clio raise $250 million to build "Clio Live"?
In this episode, we cover Xerocon Brisbane announcements, a phenomenal $250 million VC raise by Clio, a niche law-firm app, and their plans to build a QuickBooks Live-...
#AccountingShowLA: Things you need to know if you want to sell (or buy) an accounting firm!
Blake and David met up with two seasoned mergers & acquisitions experts, Dr. Curtis Cochran, and Shannon Hay, at the Accounting & Finance Show LA to ask them what acco...
