Blake Oliver
Founder and CEO of Earmark CPE
Appears in 499 Episodes
Online sales tax SCOTUS ruling ramifications for accountants & business owners
Mike Fleming, CEO of Sales Tax and More, joins Blake & David on the podcast to discuss in detail the ramifications of the U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing states t...
Supreme Court sales tax ruling is a windfall for Avalara
Blake and David discuss the implications of Thursday's Supreme Court ruling that states can require out of state retailers to collect taxes on sales to residents, even...
Cloud accounting survey results, IRS budgets upgrades, & lawyers dropping the billable hour
David reports on IRS plans to spend $291 million on technology upgrades and why some lawyers are dropping the billable hour. Blake shares takeaways from FloQast's 2018...
Cloud M&A, get paid to move to Vermont to work remotely, & app updates galore
David shares some exciting news that the firm that bought Blake's cloud bookkeeping startup (HPC) is itself getting acquired — by a Top 100 CPA firm (Aprio). HPC is a ...
Time bandits, Slack actions, Intuit grows, and more
David shares how time tracking software has entered the world of "wage theft" lawsuits, Blake is impressed by Slack's new and improved third-party integrations, then w...
AutoEntry and the importance of document processing granularity
Brendan Woods, Founder and CEO at AutoEntry, joins the podcast to chat about his OCR and document processing solution for accountants and bookkeepers. AutoEntry is hea...
KPMG teams up with Microsoft to sell ERP software & PayPal buys iZettle
Blake is skeptical about KPMG Australia's move to get into the ERP developer game with Microsoft, and David shares PayPal's acquisition of iZettle and what that means ...
The Net Worth Episode: Warren Buffet's GAAP Troubles & Building Wealth by Owning a Business
It's the second episode of the podcast 2.0 with my new co-host, David Leary! We chat about Warren Buffet's "Accounting Nightmare." New accounting rules changes for ...
Ancient IRS Computer Systems, How to Get Hacked as a CPA, & News from SuiteWorld 2018
David Leary joins the podcast for the first time as my new co-host. We discuss the IRS' ancient computer systems that caused the crash on tax day, a case study of a CP...
How mAccounting is turning accounting from a necessary evil to a strategic advantage
Tom Gabbert joins the podcast to talk about the "m" in mAccounting (it stands for "mobile"), why he's looking to hire "people people" (not just number crunchers), his ...
Sage Intacct connects and automates the accounting profession
Chris Rose, VP of Business Development at Sage Intacct, joins the podcast to talk about why organizations need to move to the cloud for their ERP, the value of cloud A...
Big Four blockchain, AI, and RPA
Dr. Sean Stein Smith, DBA and CPA, joins the Cloud Accounting Podcast to discuss five of the top accounting articles from the past few weeks, including stories about P...
Making innovation organic to our firms with The Radical CPA
In this episode of the Cloud Accounting Podcast, I'm joined by Jody Padar, CEO and Principal of the New Vision CPA Group, a public accounting firm based in the Chicago...
Workaholism, toxic meetings, and remote work
On Episode 6 of the podcast, I'm joined by Jeff Phillips of Accountingfly, a site for accountants and finance professionals to apply easily to hundreds of great jobs. ...
5-hour workday for accountants, American views of automation, & Bitcoin taxes
I'm joined by Amanda Aguillard, David Emmerman, Ryan Watson, and Jay Kimelman of Bluewire Strategy Group. We discuss how an accounting firm in Australia successfully m...
Are CPAs "insecure overachievers," tax reform accelerates automation, and the War on Excel
In this episode, I'm joined by Mike Whitmire, co-founder and CEO of FloQast (http://www.floqast.com). We discuss whether or not big firm CPAs are "insecure overachieve...
Predictions for 2018, Intuit acquires TSheets, & an API at the IRS
I'm joined by David Leary, Global Small Business Ecosystem Evangelist at Intuit. We discuss the insanity around the latest cryptocurrency (KodakCoin), our predictions ...
Blockchain, AI, and why you need to move to the cloud, now!
In this episode, I'm joined by Will Lopez, Founder and CEO of Advisorfi. We discuss the potential impact of blockchain and artificial intelligence on the accounting pr...
What accountants should learn from the Deloitte Hack
Welcome to the first episode of Cloud Accounting Weekly, the Podcast Edition! Phil Gross joins the podcast to discuss top stories in accounting technology from the pas...
