Blake Oliver
Founder and CEO of Earmark CPE
Appears in 499 Episodes
Stop Payments To Stop Putin
Governments around the world debate cutting Russia off from SWIFT, the secure messaging system that underpins international money transfers; Intuit's new revenue shari...
Why Mazars Dumped Trump
Why did Mazars decide to pick another hill to die on and leave Trump and his sometimes exaggerated millions and billions in the dust? We’re sifting through numerous re...
Timesheets Cause Accountants To Flee Profession
Timesheets seem to be paving the way for the exodus from the accounting industry, and we've got more stories of the less-than-happy side effects of using them! After w...
TurboTax To Help Gamble Tax Refund On Crypto
Clearly, we ruffled some feathers with our talk about Tether. In today's episode, we'll hear lots of listener mail about timesheets, work-study, Blake's bad haircut, a...
Tax Organizers Suck
What sucks more than tax organizers? Nothing! Today, we're wading deep into the weeds to talk about the toils and troubles of working with tax organizers with Jason St...
Crypto is a Scam
Blake divulges the many reasons why he's not at all bullish on Bitcoin, or stablecoins, and then discover why he's been wearing a ballcap lately, and what peeves him m...
IRS On Its Last Leg
We've got a lot to unpack today, from snow removal to the seemingly ever-faltering IRS, and their latest hijinks, including targeting side-hustle income. We'll pontifi...
Busy Season is No Joke
Feeling a little punny? We've got you covered with a whole host of news, thoughts, and a brief look at 50 somewhat humorous accounting puns! In this episode, we're tal...
Job at Prison Better Than Job at Big Firm
Happy New Year! In the last recorded episode of 2021, we've got app updates from QuickBooks Online, and Intuit ProConnect Tax, numbers from Expensify, raises by LiveFl...
Earn CPE Credits Listening To Podcasts
Happy Almost New Year! As 2021 comes to a close, we've got a lot to talk about today, including an in-depth look at Blake's newly released app, Earmark CPE! We've got ...
How To Stop Intuit From Hiring Your Staff
Nipping at the heels of Christmas, we've got a proverbial sleigh full of news, from partnerships, raises, and updates, to discussions about SMB payments, the speed of ...
Wrong Metrics, Wrong Conclusions
2021 is coming to a close, but we’ve still got a lot to talk about. Blake recounts his trip to the Digital CPA conference, and takeaways from the keynotes he may or ma...
4,000-Year-Old Case of Tax Avoidance
On today's episode, we're checking out how Excel influencers are taking TikTok by storm, and raking in major bucks for their trouble. Then, we'll shoot 4,000 years bac...
Transforming Hotel Accounting With Megan Walker
We're live (well, we were live when we recorded this) from Sage Transform 2021. Today's special guest is Megan Walker, CPA. She's the Vice President of Accounting and ...
Feed The Pig
Happy After Thanksgiving! Today, we've got a ton of listener feedback, including the question of our anti-desktopness, how one very creepy pig (man in a pig costume) m...
CPA Evolution Is Missing The Weeds
News, and opinions abound in this week's episode! We've got more news from the world of the IRS about how four senators are either for, or against (we're not quite sur...
The Sage Advantage With CTO Aaron Harris
We're live from the Sage Transform 2021 conference at The Venetian in Las Vegas! In this bonus episode, we meet and talk with Aaron Harris, Global CTO of Sage about al...
Accounting Metaverse
There's a lot going on in the accounting metaverse! We've got a ton of takeaways from Sage Transform (the annual Sage Intacct conference), some excellent listener feed...
The Biggest Accounting Firm (And Top NetSuite Partner) You've Probably Never Heard Of
Escalon provides accounting and business services to over 3000 companies. They have 800 employees worldwide and have been operating for 16 years, but you've probably n...
The NetSuite Data Warehouse Kicks Excel To The Curb
We speak to Joav Bally and Marc Holliday about the importance of data analytics and specifically the new NetSuite Data Warehouse featured at SuiteWorld 2021. The Data ...
March of Dimes CFO Dave Damond Gives His Two Cents
Dave Damond, CFO @ March of Dimes, shares his thoughts on best practices for implementing new accounting software, why he uses NetSuite, what's on his agenda to add to...
Intuit Kills QuickBooks Desktop
News from the (virtual) QuickBooks Connect conference, Intuit is shutting down QuickBooks Desktop in the UK, Zillow loses billions letting an algorithm buy houses, mos...
School of Rock CFO Schools Accountants
This bonus episode features an interview with School of Rock CFO, John Cappadona. It was recorded in October 2021 at the SuiteWorld conference in Las Vegas. Blake and ...
What Accountants Can Learn from Apple's $19 Polishing Cloth
We’re back from Scaling New Heights 2021 with lots of reviews, and interested tidbits for your ears, including how you can win your very own Tesla! Also, in today’s ep...
Using Data To Fuel Growth With NetSuite Founder Evan Goldberg
In this bonus episode Blake and David interview Evan Goldberg, Founder & EVP of Oracle NetSuite at the SuiteWorld 2021 conference in Las Vegas. Topics discussed includ...
NetSuite's Never Ending Mission
Blake and David are back from SuiteWorld with takeaways galore! Also on the show: we'll explore what's really going on with the proposed bank reporting scheme, and tal...
1000s Of Apps Could Lose Access To QuickBooks Online In 2022
We're getting the scoop on David's trip to Cancun, and Blake's trip to Taliesin West, and how vacations inspire thoughts of accounting. In other news, statistics show...
The One With Elizabeth Warren, Britney Spears, And Florida Man
Before David departs for sunny Cancun, we've got a lot to talk about! We've got some listener feedback on the difficulty getting the CPA (and whether it was worth it)....
Earmark Excerpt: CPA Versus CMA With IMA President Jeff Thomson
This is an excerpt from Blake's interview with Jeff Thomson about the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation and how it compares to the CPA license. We lear...
Excel And QuickBooks Hook Up
Welcome! Today, we're talking about one good reason to get your CPA, along with a host of news from the accounting world, including PwC's new mandate that allows staff...
