Is the third time the charm? Because episode 56 of UnAccountable has its first threepeat guest! Your unworthy hosts are: 

Tyler “Hoarse-Voiced Host” Otto from Specialized Accounting, focusing on medium to large businesses in the glamorous hospitality and service industries.

Jeremy "Comprehendible Co-host" Van Groll from Nonprofit Bookkeeping, a champion for nonprofits with his accounting expertise.

We are joined by accounting world celebrity Ben Stein, CEO and Founder of Keeper. 

In Da News, we drop the goss on nearshore hiring, GrowCon, and Ramp.

In Fast Figures, Ben is in the hot seat in this trivia game with numerical answers.

On App Snack, we are taking a bite outta Keeper. Keeper is a QuickBooks and Xero-integrated bookkeeping practice management tool. Ben shares his insider updates!

Next up: Increase Angst! Leaves will be falling, but accounting software prices are rising. Jeremy quizzes Tyler on the pain our wallets will soon feel.

Winner of the Week: Elon Musk

Loser of the Week: Erika McEntarfer, Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner 

This episode is sponsored by Relay* - an online client banking and money management platform that works with your tech stack. Relay gives you real-time visibility into cash flow, spending, and transactions so you can stop digging through spreadsheets and start giving better advice, faster.

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Expecto-a-good-time! Because episode 55 of UnAccountable has appeared before your eyes! Your mystical and elusive hosts are: 

Tyler “Microphone Magician” Otto from Specialized Accounting, focusing on medium to large businesses in the glamorous hospitality and service industries.

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

Uh oh, Jeremy Contracted Something Again! Jeremy gets quizzed on the ins and outs of contracts.

On App Snack, we are taking a bite outta Puzzle.io. Puzzle is an AI-powered accounting software that automates repetitive bookkeeping tasks.

Next up: Accounting Mashup! The game with two phrases that share one word.

In Fast Figures, it's the trivia game with numerical answers. You’re an (Excel) wizard, Tyler… Well, maybe if he passes this Harry Potter-themed edition.

Winner of the Week: Box Office - Dinosaurs, Superheroes, Dragons!   

Loser of the Week: Climate change skeptics 

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If you’re ready to clean up client banking and save yourself hours every month, head to relayfi.com/unaccountable 

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All hands on deck for episode 54 of Unaccountable! Your explosive hosts are: 

Tyler “Four-Fingered” Otto from Specialized Accounting, focusing on medium to large businesses in the glamorous hospitality and service industries.

Jeremy "Hook-Handed" Van Groll from Nonprofit Bookkeeping, a champion for nonprofits with his accounting expertise.We are excited to have a special guest, Ted McRae, director of marketing at MakersHub.ai.

In Da News! Jeremy has to rant about his hotel experience, and Microsoft kills a familiar face.

On App Snack, we are taking a bite outta MakersHub - an accounts payable app that is optimized for automation.

In Man Vs the Machine, Ted proves his expertise in the laws of robotics, AI, fraud, and more!

Large, Lovely Legislation Lowdown - Jeremy quizzes Tyler on the winners and losers of the Big Beautiful Bill.

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Sponsored by ⁠Relay⁠* - an online client banking and money management platform that works with your tech stack. Relay gives you real-time visibility into cash flow, spending, and transactions, so you can stop digging through spreadsheets and start giving better advice, faster.

If you’re ready to clean up client banking and save yourself hours every month, head to ⁠relayfi.com/unaccountable⁠ 

* Relay is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services and FDIC insurance are provided through Thread Bank; Members FDIC. The Relay Visa® Debit Card is issued by Thread Bank pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. and may be used everywhere Visa® debit cards are accepted.

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Let's make it so for episode 53 of UnAccountable! Live from Orlando, it's Scaling New Heights!

Your slightly overheated hosts are:

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

Jeremy "Flamin’ Fine Fella" Van Groll, from ⁠Nonprofit Bookkeeping⁠, a champion for nonprofits with his accounting expertise.

Special Guests Galore! Our guests tried to talk about tech while playing board games. Results were chaotic, hilarious, and humbling. Connect Four, Tetris, and Guess Who? made appearances, with some shocking upsets and a few creative answers involving petting zoos and prepaid insurance.

• Jesse and Tom from FinOptimal join us to play Connect Four while discussing animal-themed branding, AI nemeses, and their soon-to-launch mystery app (coming September 1 👀).

• Tal from Anchor talks late payments, workflow elimination, and the anchor-worthy power of public APIs.

• Jaime from Bookkeepers.com plays Tetris, drops hot takes on subaccounts, and shares how he’s evolving the empire post-Ben Robinson.

• Rob from Digits becomes the first to play Guess Who? Accounting Edition and reveals how Digits is building a 21st-century AI-powered general ledger. Spoiler: It’s like replacing a ‘96 Camry with a Waymo.

🏆 Winner of the Week: The Orlando World Center Marriott — five more years of hosting accounting’s biggest thinkers and drinkers.

😬 Loser of the Week: QuickBooks, noticeably absent from the conference floor while competitors like Xero, Digits, and others showed up big.

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This episode is sponsored by ⁠⁠⁠Keeper⁠⁠⁠. Introducing... The Tax Suite! Bring every part of your tax workflow into one system. From intuitive organizers to KBA e-signatures, Keeper’s Tax Suite streamlines the prep process so your team can file faster, with less back and forth. For more information about this all-in-one bookkeeping practice management tool built to reduce your tech stack, ⁠use code unpod when you subscribe and get 20% off your first 3 months!⁠

Want to grow your bookkeeping business? ⁠Keepful⁠ automates your marketing so that you can focus on bookkeeping. ⁠Discover the solution tailor-made for bookkeepers who'd rather crunch numbers than run campaigns. ⁠

Let’s roll up our sleeves and get to work; it’s episode 52 of Unaccountable! Your star-struck hosts are: 

Tyler “Creator Curator” Otto from Specialized Accounting, focusing on medium to large businesses in the glamorous hospitality and service industries.

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

We have a special guest, Jason Staats, creator of Jason on Firms, curator of accounting app recommendations, and one of our favorite accounting influencers!

In Da News! Our friends (and former Unaccountable guests) Heidi and Jaime are taking over Keepful and Bookkeeping.com, respectively. Big congrats! 

On App Snack, we are talking about Realize - a social platform that promotes community over software. 

In Fast Figures, does Jason Staats have the stats to match our past champions in this trivia game with number-based answers?

Potpourri - where fun facts that can’t be tied to any game come to stump Tyler.

Winner of the Week: Us!

Loser of the Week: Also us :(. 

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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/

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Welcome back to Unaccountable! It’s episode 51 with your hosts: 

Tyler “Bean-Counting Banterer" Otto from Specialized Accounting, focusing on medium to large businesses in the glamorous hospitality and service industries.

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

We have a special guest: Joe Woodard, the founder of Woodard, a training and resource organization for accounting professionals. Joe is also the host of the annual Scaling New Heights conference for QuickBooks ProAdvisors.

In Da News! How can we not talk about the One Big Beautiful Bill and its potential impact? Plus, Tyler’s Accounting Today Conference experience and Better Business Advice’s cheapest and best accounting software. And the Intuit API Tier rollout!

On App Snack, we are talking about the Woodard Membership Program, which delivers a proven framework to create capacity, price to value, standardize processes, and provide six areas of advisory so accounting professionals and their clients generate wealth.

In Fast Figures, Joe is in the hot seat, will he set a new record for this trivia game with number-based answers?

Winner of the Week: Babies!
Loser of the Week: Accounting firms

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This episode is sponsored by ⁠⁠Keeper⁠⁠. Introducing... The Tax Suite! Bring every part of your tax workflow into one system. From intuitive organizers to KBA e-signatures, Keeper’s Tax Suite streamlines the prep process so your team can file faster, with less back and forth. For more information about this all-in-one bookkeeping practice management tool built to reduce your tech stack, use code unpod when you subscribe and get 20% off your first 3 months!

Want to grow your bookkeeping business? Keepful automates your marketing so that you can focus on bookkeeping. Discover the solution tailor-made for bookkeepers who'd rather crunch numbers than run campaigns.

✨Episode 50 is here! ✨

Can you believe it? Thanks to our moms -err... fans for sticking with us, your hosts:

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

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

Extra, Extra! It’s In Da News! We’re talking about the QB outage, and hot new couples Keeper + Anchor and Karbon + Xero.

I Think I Just Contracted Something - no, not a normal topic between our hosts, this game targets the differences between contracting and employing.

On App Snack, we are taking a bite out of Microsoft Copilot for Teams, an AI application for the Teams function.

Uh oh, I’m Feeling AtTAXed! A game of income tax trivia to torture Jeremy.

In Fast Figures, a 50th-themed edition for our 50th episode!

Winner of the Week: Kyle Crockett
Loser of the Week: Kohl’s CEO

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Unaccountable Episode 49 and feelin’ fine! Your hosts are ready to dazzle you with dad jokes and also information pertinent to the accounting world:

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

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

Extra, Extra! It’s In Da News! We’re reviewing the Melio updates, Canopy unclunking, and Intuit goes into HR.

In Offshore or Not Sure, we are talking about labor: off-site and foreign.

On App Snack, we show you Shogo, an automated integration between your point-of-sale or eCommerce solution and your accounting system.

Accounting Mashup: one of our favorite games returns - mash up the accounting term with the correct pop culture reference!

In Fast Figures, Jeremy is quizzing Tyler on trivia with numerical answers.

Winner of the Week: The Accountant 2
Loser of the Week: The Accountant 2

For more accounting podcast entertainment, news, and tips, subscribe to UnAccountable. Enjoying the show? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or wherever you listen!

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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/

It’s Episode 48 of Unaccountable, where our hosts are ready to inform and maybe even entertain you…

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

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

First up, it’s In Da News! We are decompressing after tax day and talking about market speculations.

Next, Let’s Get Real (Estate), where we are in the market for answers about real estate accounting.

On App Snack, we are being fed some HumbleFax pie, an app that sends and receives faxes with your computer, email or phone.

Stay in Your Lane: what happens when companies like Gusto and Ramp branch out into other goods and services? Do podcast hosts like it? You’ll find out in this segment!

In Fast Figures, Jeremy is quizzing Tyler on “drafted” trivia with numerical answers.

Winner of the Week: Accountants!!

Loser of the Week: Deloitte

For more accounting podcast entertainment, news, and tips, subscribe to UnAccountable. Enjoying the show? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or wherever you listen!

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Welcome to UnAccountable Episode 47, where we’re subjecting you to jokes from our subject-matter expert hosts:

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

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

First up, it’s In Da News! The IRS is predicting a tax revenue drop and working with banks to identify fraud. Sage has a new headquarters.

We are on a journey with Bona Fide Business Trippers: Tyler asks Jeremy to verify business travel expenses.

On App Snack, we are joking around with TryTrivia: a trivia, game, and icebreakers app that integrates with Slack and Teams.

Off the Mark: are you on target with these marketing trends according to AI?

In Fast Figures, Jeremy is quizzing Tyler on trivia with numerical answers. This edition: what year is it?

Winner of the Week: Independent CPA firms

Loser of the Week: Tesla’s Accounting

For more accounting podcast entertainment, news, and tips, subscribe to UnAccountable. Enjoying the show? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or wherever you listen!

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