I Hate Accounting! A Podcast by Botkeeper

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What's I Hate Accounting! A Podcast by Botkeeper about?

We hate accounting, but it has to be done. This podcast is a collection of our best audio blogs designed to help you focus less on how much you also hate accounting and more on how to grow your business. Botkeeper provides bookkeeping to businesses using a powerful combination of skilled accountants and automated data entry through the use of machine learning and AI. Check us out at botkeeper.com

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I Hate Accounting! A Podcast by Botkeeper episodes:

11.16.2020
19 Common Misconceptions About Botkeeper
The internet is full of misinformation, and that’s no surprise to anyone. In fact, 52% of Americans believe they’re served fake news on a regular basis. And the leading source of misinformation? You guessed it—social media. A classic example: how...
11.02.2020
10 Compelling Reasons to Automate Bookkeeping in Your Accounting Services
Here’s some exciting news for automation nerds like us: automated bookkeeping services are rapidly gaining in popularity! We know—it’s pretty cool. In fact, according to Sage’s Practice of Now 2020 report, 73% of surveyed accounting professionals are confident when it...
10.19.2020
8 Tips for Getting Your Firm Acquired
There are lots of reasons why a CPA firm might be ready for acquisition. Business climate changes, firm growth, or partners reaching retirement age are some of the most common. Learn more at: https://www.botkeeper.com/blog/8-tips-for-getting-your-firm-acquired
10.05.2020
The Anatomy of a Great CPA Firm Explained
When you think of a CPA firm that seems to have it all together, what comes to mind? Is it their services and clientele? Their firm size or funding? Maybe it’s their influence in the accounting and business communities? Learn more...
09.21.2020
How Social Media Can Give Your Accounting Firm a Boost
There are usually two ways social media is perceived by accountants. One side, perhaps most often from the newer accountants, loves it and sees it as a great way to stay up to date with the latest news or trends....
09.07.2020
Breaking Down Blockchain for Accountants in 2020 and Beyond
Blockchain technology, along with being a new buzzword, is also one of the most exciting technologies of the 21st century. A universally decentralized ledger system that can share data among an infinite number of users—a blockchain is unhackable. Due to...
08.24.2020
What We Know About ROI: A New Approach for the CPA
In the scramble to adjust to running an accounting firm during a pandemic, many firms invested in new technology to help them bridge the gap between a traditional in-office operation and a new virtual approach. And understandably so—it was an...
08.10.2020
Do You Have Info ROT? What It is and How to Avoid it
We’ve come a long way from using floppy disks and CDs to store our business data and files. These days, many people and businesses have moved to the cloud for data storage and file management, and others use servers housed...
07.27.2020
How to Beat The Big Firms by Leveraging Accounting Tech
Not everyone who’s familiar with Jody Padar knows why she’s nicknamed the Radical CPA. In addition to being considered a bit progressive with her online presence, she’s passionate about leveraging quality technology to create a better accounting firm. She recently...
07.13.2020
Tips for Maintaining Bookkeeping Disciplines When Your Clients Base Doubles
Rapid business growth and increased sales are often the epitome of a “good problem” for accounting firms. While doubling your client base generally means an exponential rise in revenue, unprecedented growth tends to be a great disruptor for bookkeeping. It’s...
06.29.2020
Accounting Automation: Expectations vs. Reality
Technology advancements over the past five years have changed the business landscape completely, and the evolution isn't slowing down anytime soon. This is especially true in the accounting space, where we’ve seen a large pop in the progression of technology...
06.15.2020
It's Time to Speak Up: A Note from Our CEO
As the leader of an organization of 100+ amazing people coming from various backgrounds, religious views, and lifestyles, it’s always been important to me that we go above and beyond in being inclusive, supportive, and understanding. Learn more at: https://www.botkeeper.com/blog/its-time-to-speak-up-a-note-from-our-ceo
06.01.2020
When the Rules No Longer Apply, Be Like a Startup
The world in the time of Corona is upside-down! The first thing to acknowledge is that in the next six to ten months, new legislation, new social and professional norms, and new practices in every sector will become solidified to...
05.17.2020
7 Tips for Leading a Remote Team During the COVID-19 Crisis
As your accounting firm makes adjustments and settles into a new normal—at least for the next few weeks while COVID-19 remains a serious threat—it can be hard for firm leaders and managers to maintain status quo. You’re used to face-to-face...
05.11.2020
10 Marketing Tactics for Accountants During COVID-19
With the current events taking place around COVID-19, business as we know it has changed. The way that accounting professionals conduct their day-to-day has evolved and will continue to evolve in the coming weeks. Learn more at: https://www.botkeeper.com/blog/10-marketing-tactics-for-accountants-during-covid-19
04.20.2020
Why You Should Practice Accounting Advisory With Emotion
If there are specific people that business owners trust, their accountant is very high up on the list. Accountants watch over their clients’ finances, make recommendations for cost-saving and growth opportunities, and they ultimately provide their clients with advisory services...
04.06.2020
Tm2 Saves 30 Hours A Week with Botkeeper’s Accounting Partner Program
As the Partners watched their business grow, they knew they had a bandwidth challenge. How could they offer exceptional service to their clients and have a successful tax season? With just the two of them, it was nearly impossible to...
03.24.2020
G&N Insurance Saves 50+ Hours Each Month with Botkeeper
Zack Gould, co-founder of G&N Insurance, a home, auto, and commercial insurance provider, was spending 10+ hours a week completing the bookkeeping tasks for his growing company. Zack knew that he wanted to spend more of his time focusing on...
03.09.2020
Everything You Need to Know About Recording In-Kind Donations for Nonprofits
As a nonprofit organization, you’re required to record and report not only cash donations but in-kind contributions, too. Sound like a lot? That’s because it is! In-kind gifts make up a majority of donations to nonprofits, and these charitable contributions no...
02.24.2020
When Things Don't Add Up: How to Navigate Common SaaS Accounting Challenges
In a world where the average company uses at least five clouds at once to store data and information, SaaS businesses are in high demand. SaaS—software as a service—companies host an application and then make it available for customers over the...
02.10.2020
What Percentage of Construction Costs Is Labor? Pricing Your Bids Correctly
Sometimes there’s truth to the old adage that if you want something done right, you do it yourself. And usually that’s when you’re working on a passion project that requires your own individual creativity. But smart business owners with growth...
01.27.2020
Accounting for Your Construction Company: Common Mistakes to Avoid
No matter what industry you’re in, accounting is one of those critical tasks that requires diligence and attention to detail. Needless to say, it’s not usually the favorite activity for most business owners or managers. Accounting for a construction company...
01.20.2020
How Accounts Payable Outsourcing Works and Why Your Business Needs It
Managing the relationships that your company has with suppliers and vendors is challenging. And the more vendors you have, the more at-risk you are for costly errors in your accounts payable process. Learn more at https://www.botkeeper.com/blog/how-accounts-payable-outsourcing-works-and-why-your-business-needs-it
12.16.2019
Botlife: Why We Value Flexibility in the Workplace
“Bot” may be in our name, but robots aren’t necessarily our premium priority at Botkeeper. In fact, we have a whole team of humans behind the bots, and we put their happiness and quality of life right up there with...
12.09.2019
How to Plan and Create a Construction Budgeting Analysis In 4 Steps
Lincoln Logs, Legos, K'Nex, Erector Sets—remember how fun it was to create the structure of your dreams with any one of these building toys? As long as you had enough pieces, the possibilities seemed endless. And the best part was...
12.02.2019
Construction Accounting Basics for Contractors
A day in the life of a contractor is a busy one. You’re up early to answer emails and sort through paperwork before heading to a jobsite. From there your day is full of meetings with subcontractors, reviewing the progress...
11.25.2019
Tax Education: Everything You Need to Know about the Federal Tax Deadline
Any American with a pulse knows that individuals and businesses pay a plethora of taxes. But it wasn't always that way. Even though taxes have been around since before the inauguration of the United States, they used to be much...
11.18.2019
9 Challenges All Restaurant Owners Face—And What To Do About Them
Someone should really write a tell-all book for business success that includes a money-back guarantee. There's no doubt that we'd buy that book. But since it doesn't exist (yet), the next-best alternative is to research and learn how to avoid...
11.11.2019
Bookkeeping vs. Accounting: What's the Difference?
Unless you’re a bookkeeper or accountant by trade, you probably don’t spend your days thinking about the two (but hey, no shame if you do). Similarly, you probably don’t know that there’s a difference between the two. That’s because most people...
11.04.2019
How to Hire a Bookkeeper
So, your business has grown, and you’re finding it difficult to stay on top of your bills, taxes, customer payments, and a ton of other bookkeeping tasks. Sound familiar? Many businesses wait too long to hire a bookkeeper until the signs...
10.28.2019
Order Up! A Basic Guide to Restaurant Accounting and Bookkeeping
Restaurant owners have one of the most demanding jobs around: pleasing foodies. Successful restaurants thrive thanks to serving delicious, mouth-watering food, but that’s not all it takes. What about running the business side of things? That’s a different story. Learn more at...
10.21.2019
Botkeeper vs. ScaleFactor vs. Pilot vs. Bench: Which Bookkeeping Software is Right for Your Business?
Whether you run a startup company or manage a billion-dollar enterprise, bookkeeping is one of the most important tasks for any business. Business owners want (and need) to focus on their products and services as well as growing their company....
10.14.2019
What Does a Modern Bookkeeper Do?
Bookkeeping…we’ve all heard of it, but what exactly is it? In simple terms, bookkeeping is defined as creating and maintaining the financial records and reports of a business. In short, bookkeepers take care of all the mundane tasks that are...
10.07.2019
How to Overcome Top Nonprofit Financial Challenges
Shocker: No one enters the world of nonprofits to make big money. In fact, the average salary for an executive director position at a nonprofit is around $61k, which is barely above the average income for US workers ($59,039). But...
09.30.2019
Bookkeeping Meets AI: Trends and Predictions for the Future of Accounting
If you’re in the accounting profession, chances are you’re getting used to the integration of various forms of technology in the industry, including machine learning, cloud computing, and different forms of automation. Small and large accounting firms alike have begun...

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I Hate Accounting! A Podcast by Botkeeper episodes:

19 Common Misconceptions About Botkeeper

10 Compelling Reasons to Automate Bookkeeping in Your Accounting Services

8 Tips for Getting Your Firm Acquired

The Anatomy of a Great CPA Firm Explained

How Social Media Can Give Your Accounting Firm a Boost

Breaking Down Blockchain for Accountants in 2020 and Beyond

What We Know About ROI: A New Approach for the CPA

Do You Have Info ROT? What It is and How to Avoid it

How to Beat The Big Firms by Leveraging Accounting Tech

Tips for Maintaining Bookkeeping Disciplines When Your Clients Base Doubles

Accounting Automation: Expectations vs. Reality

It's Time to Speak Up: A Note from Our CEO

When the Rules No Longer Apply, Be Like a Startup

7 Tips for Leading a Remote Team During the COVID-19 Crisis

10 Marketing Tactics for Accountants During COVID-19

Why You Should Practice Accounting Advisory With Emotion

Tm2 Saves 30 Hours A Week with Botkeeper’s Accounting Partner Program

G&N Insurance Saves 50+ Hours Each Month with Botkeeper

Everything You Need to Know About Recording In-Kind Donations for Nonprofits

When Things Don't Add Up: How to Navigate Common SaaS Accounting Challenges

What Percentage of Construction Costs Is Labor? Pricing Your Bids Correctly

Accounting for Your Construction Company: Common Mistakes to Avoid

How Accounts Payable Outsourcing Works and Why Your Business Needs It

Botlife: Why We Value Flexibility in the Workplace

How to Plan and Create a Construction Budgeting Analysis In 4 Steps

Construction Accounting Basics for Contractors

Tax Education: Everything You Need to Know about the Federal Tax Deadline

9 Challenges All Restaurant Owners Face—And What To Do About Them

Bookkeeping vs. Accounting: What's the Difference?

How to Hire a Bookkeeper

Order Up! A Basic Guide to Restaurant Accounting and Bookkeeping

Botkeeper vs. ScaleFactor vs. Pilot vs. Bench: Which Bookkeeping Software is Right for Your Business?

What Does a Modern Bookkeeper Do?

How to Overcome Top Nonprofit Financial Challenges

Bookkeeping Meets AI: Trends and Predictions for the Future of Accounting