Blake Oliver
Founder and CEO of Earmark CPE
Appears in 499 Episodes
What Is A Fair IRS Audit Rate?
The IRS is getting $80 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act. Who will they use that money to audit? And what should the audit rate be, anyway?
Broken CPA Supply Chain
75% of CPAs are ready to retire but we aren't making nearly enough to replace them. Plus, how the Inflation Reduction Act could change the nature of the Financial Acco...
Join Us In Italy!*
Billy DeClercq, Esq, the host of Laying Down the Law Podcast joins David and Blake to make sense of the #ExpensiCon invite that was sent out and more.
Accountants Voted Best Kissers
A UK survey says accountants are the best kissers (and lawyers are among the worst); how ESG impact will (or won't) be measured; FASB scraps goodwill accounting projec...
So Much Fraud
Senator Warren wants IRS to build online tax prep; Alliantgroup antics date back over a decade; Crypto lender Celsius has its "desk broken"; Chasing ESG scores may be ...
More Money for AI Accounting Startups
David checks in from Italy; 2022 Karbon Practice Excellence Report; IRS streamlined process for non profits backfires; Toast continues to build an ecosystem; and more!
Why CPAs Cheat On Ethics Exams
SEC slaps EY with $100 million fine for cheating on ethics exams; IRS launches new voice bots; Will IRS service improvements be the end of enQ?; Intuit pulling QuickBo...
Abortion by the Numbers
Lorilyn Wilson, CPA is our special guest for this unusual episode. We bypass the moral argument to examine the numbers around abortion and attempt to determine the imp...
Why Accountants Don’t Trust Tech
Brex bails on 1000s of small businesses; ClearSpend pulls the plug; Intuit shutting down QuickBooks API connections; Crypto crash continues; and more!
AccountingWEB Live #5: Marketing that Works w/ Lee Frederiksen
We’re at AccountingWEB Live Summit 2022, talking with Lee Frederiksen, Managing Partner of Hinge Marketing about the strategy around creating marketing that works and ...
AccountingWEB Live #4: How Uncle Sam Collects His Due with IRS Deputies
Live-ish from Sunny San Diego, at the 2022 AccountingWEB Live Summit, we caught up with a couple IRS guys – James Robnett, Deputy Chief, Criminal Investigation, and Da...
AccountingWEB Live #3: Building a Female-Owned and Operated BPO in India with Penny Breslin
Penny Breslin, CEO of MoneyPenny LLC, didn't set out to build the only female-owned and operated business process outsourcing (BPO) firm in India. But that's what happ...
AICPA Disengage
Caleb Newquist makes sense of Deloitte split rumor; War could increase ESG scores; Questionable commercial from Easier Accounting; Wolters Kluwer & KPMG share content;...
AccountingWEB Live #2: Learning to Love the IRS with Eric Green
At the 2022 AccountingWEB Live Summit, we also had the pleasure of conversing with Eric Green, founder of Tax Rep Network. Even amidst the unfathomable backlog of retu...
AccountingWEB Live #1: Atop the Summit with Seth Fineberg
(Recorded) Live from Paradise Point in sunny San Diego, we take a look at the 2022 AccountingWEB Live Summit with AW's editorial manager, Seth Fineberg. We're talking ...
David And Blake Go To The Movies
Accounting thought leaders say email must die; CFOs hardly do accounting; Jotform launches e-commerce stores; App news from Melio, Lightyear, & Lightspeed; and more!
Is ESG Accounting a Scam?
EY adds Chief Wellbeing Officer; FBI raids Alliantgroup offices; TurboTax Live does $1 billion in revenue; GoDaddy exits bookkeeping business; and more!
GAO Audits IRS
Walmart pays managers better than your firm; Back-to-office policies rolling back; KPMG to pay new hires to study for CPA exam; app news from Caseware, Lockstep & Reck...
Orphan 1040s
IRS destroys 30 million paper information returns; crypto stablecoins collapse; KPMG uses Monday.com to build time-tracking app; Xero breaks 3 million subscribers; and...
H&R Block Blocks Block
Intuit settles the Free File lawsuit, H&R Block wins an injunction against Block for trademark infringement, Lord Sugar has a sad take on remote work in the UK, pizza ...
A Holistic IRS Experience
Intuit pulls out of Scaling New Heights; Sage gets a new logo; Formation raises $8 million; Acquisitions made by Brex, Sage, Thomson Reuters, and more!
Steve Jobs’ Genius Accounting Move
AICPA trends report on accounting graduates; Taxtwitter gets called out; Teachers’ out of pocket is too low; Web scraping is legal; and more!
Bonus Interview: Wayne Chang of Digits
Blake sits down with Wayne Chang, founder and CEO of Digits, to learn why investors gave Digits $65 million at a $565 million valuation — for a financial reporting too...
EY & Deloitte Fail At Social Media
Another Top 100 firm takes PE investment; Tech accounting firm Osidon abruptly shuts down; Crypto investors aren’t filing tax returns; Intuit’s Mailchimp problem; and ...
Spreadsheets Are Hot
A service to create fake bank statements, AICPA backs bill adding accounting STEM education, security breaches at MailChimp and Block, Fast pulls the plug, and more
It's A Data Entry Nightmare At The IRS
Interview questions to hire best accountant; FTC says no more Free File commercials; ECASH Act wants Treasury to create USDC; $40 million stolen from Yale $10K at a ti...
Is QuickBooks Reporting App Digits Worth Half-A-Billion
CPA firms to profit from proposed SEC climate rules; half will quit if they must return to the office; financial literacy is now the law in Florida; El Salvador strugg...
IRS to Clear Backlog by End of Year
Salary and bonus increases for accountants; PCAOB and China in talks about audits; Xero to pull plug on Russian customers; AI news from Fiskl, AuditBoard, Botkeeper, a...
Cloud Accounting Firm Breaks Into Top 100
Lack of IRS audits hurts CPAs; IRS to hire as many as 10,000; Brazillian accounting firm raises $160 million; QuickBooks enters restaurant niche; and more
Big Accounting Firms Are Doomed
Why taxpayers choose your firm; Will IRS complaints be the latest TikTok trend? AICPA issues a press release about Ukraine; Visa and Mastercard pull out of Russia, and...
