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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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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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.

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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!

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✨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

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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

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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

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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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🔔NASBA-approved CPE and IRS-approved CE credits are offered via Earmark. Access our QAS Self-Study courses here.

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 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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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