What will become of George Osborne’s digital dream? A statement from HMRC confirmed last week that the tax authority has had to shuffle the pack and prioritise key Brexit projects at the expense of its digital taxation transformation programme.

To discuss the details and what this could mean for accountants was a full cast of AccountingWEB editors, including global editor John Stokdyk and tax editor Rebecca Cave.

With two weeks before the great and the good of accountancy descend on London’s docklands for Accountex, the team also discussed the merits (or otherwise) of trade shows.

Finally, the pod looked at how to tackle the scourge of unproductive meetings, following Tesla founder Elon Musk’s pronouncement that employees should just get up and walk out if they’re not getting value from office gatherings.

Have spreadsheets had their day? Xero’s Gary Turner joins the AccountingWEB editorial team to discuss this as well as public speaking and the age-old battle: Windows vs Mac.

AccountingWEB's Practice correspondent Richard Hattersley is joined by a panel of leading tech-first accountants to discuss the inner workings of their firms.

The panel:

Alex Falcon, CEO and founder, Soaring Falcon Accountancy

Mike Hutchinson, Founder, The Peloton

Olly Evans, Director, Evans & Partners

This podcast is a follow up to the Accounting Excellence Talks: Secrets of tech-firm firms session on Thursday 19th April and covers questions posted by the audience.

Click here to watch the full broadcast on-demand: https://www.accountingexcellence.co.uk/april-session/

Many have predicted that Open Banking will have a profound effect on the way accountants do their jobs, but what form will this take?

Our expert panellists discuss some of the fundamental questions around this shift, including how Open Banking will affect the way firms are run, client risk profiles and whether the banking space risks turning into a tech wild west.

This week accountant and business coach Carl Reader joins the podcast to chew over the FRC's crackdown on ‘seriously poor’ audit practices from the Big Four, how small practitioners are reacting to the government’s Making Tax Digital scheme and what the ubiquitous term ‘advisory services’ means for accounting practices.

This week the No Accounting for Taste team look at the latest IR35 tax case, an argument over what constitutes ‘advice’, the government’s big fintech conference and whether accountants should aspire to emulate Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial mindset.

Joining AccountingWEB editor Tom Herbert to tackle the week’s news in accounting were Richard Hattersley and Francois Badenhorst.

AccountingWEB's Business editor Francois Badenhorst is joined by VAT expert Neil Warren, SAP Concur's Senior director Tim Page and Senior development manager Brendin Cohen to answer your VAT reclaim questions.

Welcome to the ‘On Compliance’ podcast from AccountingWEB, where we discuss the various compliance challenges facing accountants in 2018.

This month the podcast panel of experts look at the tax implications of Chancellor Philip Hammond's Spring Statement.

Joining AccountingWEB editor Tom Herbert this month is Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at ACCA global, Mark Purdue, product manager - tax products at Thomson Reuters, and Alan Soady from the Federation of Small Businesses.

This week the pod tackles ethics in the profession, the thorny issue of EBITDA, Ken Dodd’s inheritance tax and the Chancellor’s Spring Statement.

A stellar panel of accountants joined the AccountingWEB podcast team at QuickBooks Connect to discuss the biggest stories in accountancy this week.

Up for discussion this time around were whether directors with no income need to file tax returns, which flavours of Nesquik attracted a zero VAT rating, and what had caught the accountants' eye at the event.