It’s Unaccountable Episode 46, and we’re accruing some laughs with some ledger-dary antics from our hosts:

Tyler “Debit Daddy" Otto from Specialized Accounting, focusing on medium to large businesses in the glamorous hospitality and service industries.

Jeremy "Credit Crony" Van Groll from Nonprofit Bookkeeping, a champion for nonprofits with his accounting expertise.

First up, it’s In Da News! Time to discuss what’s up with QBO tags and the return of the IRS agents

Code or Crap: Tyler asks Jeremy about tax codes or are they just crap Tyler made up?

On App Snack, Kahoot! Sounds fun - is it? We review this education-focused, and dare we say entertaining, learning app.

No, No, No: borrowing from Dkembe Mutumbo, Tyler quizzes Jeremy on advice for specific business situations.

In Fast Figures, Tyler is in the hot seat for March Madness-related trivia questions from Jeremy.

Winner of the Week: the 2025 Fastest Growing Accounting Firms

Loser of the Week: PWC

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It’s Unaccountable Episode 45! Our swimmingly good episode is hosted by these barnacles:

Tyler “Marine Mammal" Otto from Specialized Accounting, focusing on medium to large businesses in the glamorous hospitality and service industries.

Jeremy "Sea Squall" Van Groll from Nonprofit Bookkeeping, a champion for nonprofits with his accounting expertise.

In Da News, tariffs, DOGE accounting, IRS layoffs, and the Corporate Transparency Act.

We are pleased to have a special guest, the fine fellow, Seth Fineberg, Founder of Accountants Forward.

In Fast Figures, Seth is in the hot seat to answer trivia questions with numerical answers.

On App Snack, we are talking about conferences like Engage, Bridging the Gap, Intuit Connect, and more!

With Just the Tip - NO, not that. Jeremy is quizzing Tyler on the taxation of tip income.

Winner of the Week: US Tax Payers

Loser of the Week: Xero

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Welcome back to Unaccountable Episode 44! We’ve got an action-packed episode with your hosts:

Tyler “Tax Titan" Otto from Specialized Accounting, focusing on medium to large businesses in the glamorous hospitality and service industries.

Jeremy "Analysis Anomaly" Van Groll from Nonprofit Bookkeeping, a champion for nonprofits with his accounting expertise.

In Da News, Melio and Amazon get together and the accounting world’s sexiest movie has a sequel coming up.

Everything’s gonna be AI’ght! Using results from Karbon’s latest report on AI usage in accounting, Tyler quizzes Jeremy on AI.
On App Snack, we are talking about Guru, part AI search, knowledge base, and intranet all on a single platform.

With Extra Credit​, Jeremy gets a taxing lesson on tax credits from Tyler.

Following that is Shady or No? Some big names in the news have made some plays that Tyler needs to guess - shady or no??

Winner of the Week: Aspiring CPAs

Loser of the Week: KFC

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This episode is sponsored by FinOptimal. Automate accruals + so much more in QuickBooks. FinOptimal’s apps make posting accruals, keeping up with monthly journal entries, and financial reporting feel easier than you can believe. Accruer automates accrual accounting, while Booker can help with any other journal entries. Wrangler is a lightweight and affordable reporting tool to share financials with your stakeholders or yourself without the constant logging in and downloading of manual reporting. Save 50% off your first two months and a 60-day money-back guarantee with code UNACCOUNTABLE: https://www.finoptimal.com/

Do you feel the love for episode 43 of Unaccountable? We’ve got your spreadsheet sweeties:

Tyler “Ledger Legend" Otto from Specialized Accounting, focusing on medium to large businesses in the glamorous hospitality and service industries.

Jeremy "Count of Accounts" Van Groll from Nonprofit Bookkeeping, a champion for nonprofits with his accounting expertise.

In Da News, federal fund freezes, big IRS changes, tariffs, and RAMP bank accounts.

SWF WTF?​ Do Sovereign Wealth Funds make you say Huh?! Find out with SWF trivia!

On App Snack, we are talking about Anchor, an app that automatizes the process of getting paid by clients, end-to-end, with auto-invoice, auto-charge, and auto-sync them all with accounting softwares.

Following that is Under the Wire: we have some spicy sneaks for tax savings for 2024.

Next, we have Fast Figures! This week, Jeremy quizzes Tyler on trivia with (some romantic) numerical answers.

Winner of the Week: FUN 107 Listeners

Loser of the Week: Elon Musk (again)

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This episode is sponsored by ⁠Keeper⁠. One app to run your bookkeeping business: communicate with clients, catch coding errors, track KPIs, and manage your work. For more information about this all-in-one bookkeeping practice management tool built to reduce your tech stack, follow this link: ⁠unaccountable.co/keeper

Welcome back to Unaccountable! It’s episode 42 with your most okay-est hosts:

Tyler “Functional Fiduciary" Otto from Specialized Accounting, focusing on medium to large businesses in the glamorous hospitality and service industries.

Jeremy "Fiscally Irresistable" Van Groll from Nonprofit Bookkeeping, a champion for nonprofits with his accounting expertise.

In Da News: new year, new administration, and some new changes including IRS personnel changes,  the IRS Hiring Freeze, automatic enrollments, and the global tax deal.

On IRSted Development​, Tyler is bringing the pain on Jeremy with some IRS penalties and audit risk questions.

On App Snack, we are talking about Monarch Money, a personal budgeting tool. Spoiler alert: Tyler’s a fan!

Next in Hit the NIL on the Head, we regress to college (more than normally) to explore the Name Image Likeness world of college sports.

Finally, we have Fast Figures! This week Tyler quizzes Jeremy on trivia with numerical answers.

Winner of the Week: (literally) the Excel World Champion

Loser of the Week: Elon Musk

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Is it payday?! Because we have a special payroll-focused episode 41 of UnAccountable, with your okay-est hosts:

Tyler “Tenacious D" Otto from Specialized Accounting, focusing on medium to large businesses in the glamorous hospitality and service industries.

Jeremy "Vivacious VG" Van Groll from Nonprofit Bookkeeping, a champion for nonprofits with his accounting expertise.

We have a special guest, fresh from his role at Gusto (and currently a free agent), the “Payroll Pimp” himself, Will Lopez.

In Da News, Paychex eats Paycor and Onpay gets funding dollars.

In Fire At Will​, we are literally firing off questions at Will. Can the birthday boy keep up?

On App Snack, we are talking about Gusto, the online payroll solution that offers a holistic HR tool kit.

Next, we have Fast Figures! This week Jeremy quizzes Tyler on trivia with numerical answers.

Winner of the Week: This Creative (and Fingerless) Accountant

Loser of the Week: This Rascal of a CPA

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Lordy, lordy, it’s episode 40! Welcome back to Unaccountable, with your okay-est hosts who are year-end exhausted but still ready:

Tyler “Pot Stirrer" Otto from Specialized Accounting, focusing on medium to large businesses in the glamorous hospitality and service industries.

Jeremy "Stir Crazy" Van Groll from Nonprofit Bookkeeping, a champion for nonprofits with his accounting expertise.

In Da News, we are yapping about some brash QBO changes, Dext getting acquired, and the IRS mileage rate.

In LOSS FOR THE YEAR​, we are admitting our big Ls for 2024 (Can you believe it? We make mistakes too?!).

On App Snack, we are talking about Keeper, which we may have mentioned a time or 10 before, but this time we are discussing the tax side of things.

With WIN FOR THE YEAR​, we are admitting our big Ws for 2024 - yes, we do some things right!!

Then, we look INTO THE FUTURE to see where we will be going as an industry and also in our individual companies.

Winner of the Week: Nonprofits! (And Jeremy if someone introduces him to Mackenzie Scott)

Loser of the Week: BAD Conference

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Episode 39 is here! Welcome back to UnAccountable, with your okay-est hosts:

Tyler “Bad Asset" Otto from Specialized Accounting, focusing on medium to large businesses in the glamorous hospitality and service industries.

Jeremy "Fully Depreciated, but Still in Use" Van Groll from Nonprofit Bookkeeping, a champion for nonprofits with his accounting expertise.

Our special guest (who we have dragged down to our level) is Kate Johnson, owner of Heritage Business Services and the genius behind Bookkeeping Side Hustle.

In Da News, we are gossing about Macy’s and the DOD.

In Let’s Get Together, Yeah Yeah Yeah​, we're quizzing Kate on accounting-related events in the industry (plus maybe a couple of surprises too).

On App Snack, we are talking about FreshBooks, the other accounting software, because we’ve got the expert (Kate, duh) in the house!

1099 Problems, Take Two: it's that time of year - is one of your problems a 1099 problem?

It’s Fast Figures, the trivia game with numerical answers! After a string of guest competitors, Jeremy will need to knock off the brain rust for Tyler’s questions.

Winner of the Week: it’s Crypto!

Loser of the Week: Finance Departments of Public Companies

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Welcome to Thanksgiving Throwdown - Live!, a special holiday episode. Your hosts are ready for the ruuuuumble:

Tyler “White Meat" Otto from Specialized Accounting, focusing on medium to large businesses in the glamorous hospitality and service industries.

Jeremy "Dark Meat" Van Groll from Nonprofit Bookkeeping, a champion for nonprofits with his accounting expertise.

Our challengers are Nick Boscia, CPA, EA aka The Balanced CPA vs. Dawn Brolin, CPA, CFE owner of Powerful Accounting. Who will be the victor?!

ROUND ONE: Gen Alpha Consulting - In this game of hypotheticals, we test Dawn with the lingo of the leaders of tomorrow.

Round TWO: That’s What She Said - Where we quiz Nick on Dawn’s quotable quotes and ethos.

HALF TIME: On App Snack, we are talking about  Keeper and Earmark. Keeper is a QuickBooks and Xero-integrated bookkeeping practice management tool. Earmark is an app and community where you can earn free CPE for listening to podcasts (like ours 😏).

FINAL SHOWDOWN: It’s Fast Figures, the trivia game with numerical answers! Who will knock out the competition?

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Welcome back, it’s Unaccountable Episode 37! Ready to have a cornucopia of fun? As always, your grateful hosts/turkeys are:

Tyler “For Profit Failure" Otto from Specialized Accounting, focusing on medium to large businesses in the glamorous hospitality and service industries.

Jeremy "Nonprofit Nimrod" Van Groll from Nonprofit Bookkeeping, a champion for nonprofits with his accounting expertise.

We’re thankful to have special guest Heidi Ryder, CSO of Bookkeepers.com and owner of Healthy Books LLC.

In Da News, the IRS fails to catch fraudulent refunds and BOI, oh BOI 6.5 million reports filed so far.

For Fast Figures, we quiz Heidi on our trivia with numerical answers!

For our halftime App Snack, we’re talking about Keepful, a tool that automates your marketing, created especially for bookkeepers. Link: Keepful

Next, we have When I’m 64: how much do you know about contributions to retirement? If this game stresses you out, maybe start beefing up those retirement contributions. 👀

Announcing the Winner of the Week: Investors' Trump impact.

And now, the Loser of the Week: Turkeys!

Thanks for tuning in! We’ll see you on November 22nd for a special LIVE Unaccountable Throwdown Episode on Earmark!

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