David Leary
President and Founder, Sombrero Apps Company
Appears in 487 Episodes
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!
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...
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 ...
