UnAccountable!

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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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 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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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, 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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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

Do you sense the magic in the air? On Episode 36, we're coming at you from the 2024 Intuit Connect with heaps of special guests! As always, your hosts are:

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

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

In Da News, the IRS is making adjustments on tax amounts.

For Fast Figures, we are joined by Roger Knecht, President of Universal Accounting Center and fellow podcaster of Building the Premier Accounting Firm. Will he know the numerical answers to our questions?

For our halftime App Snack, of course we are talking about Universal Accounting⁠, a school where you can learn the steps to start your own successful accounting, bookkeeping, tax and/or CFO & advisory business.

Next, we have the Intuit Connect Games (cue trumpet noises). Ten questions about QuickBooks where the last letter of the previous answer is the first letter of the next answer. These are our players:

Finally, we have Digital Assets for Dummies…. By Dummies, we know a bit(coin) or two about this, but please do your due diligence on this before betting it all on doge coin.

Announcing the Winner of the Week: Intuit Connect

And now, the Loser of the Week: EY

Thanks for tuning in! We’ll see you in a fortnight for our next episode.

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Welcome back to Unaccountable, the right place to do the wrong things. It’s Episode 35 with your hosts: 

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

Jeremy "Daddy Mack" Van Groll from Nonprofit Bookkeeping, a champion for nonprofits with his accounting expertise. We are joined by FinOptimal wizards Jesse Rubenfeld, Founder and CEO of FinOptimal, and Tom Zehentner, Director of Growth.

In Da News, New York Times slaps the hand of Perplexity and Intuit apologizes for hurting our feelings.

Here’s Fast Figures! Tyler sees if Jesse and Tom can “WinOptimal-ly” during this trivia with numerical answers.

Following up is BOI oh BOI, where Jeremy quizzes Tyler on Beneficial Ownership Information.

For our halftime App Snack, of course we are talking about FinOptimal. FinOptimal builds QuickBooks Online add-ons like Accruer and Booker that make accountants' and business owners' lives easier.

Announcing the Winner of the Week: Utah

And now, the Loser of the Week: Labor

Thanks for tuning in! We’ll see you in a fortnight for our next episode.

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Episode 34, hot off the presses! Time for your very extra hosts to tell you all about it: 

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

Jeremy "Antihero" Van Groll from Nonprofit Bookkeeping, a champion for nonprofits with his accounting expertise. In Da News, we are talking about hurricane Helene,  the value of AI, and Melio changes. Next up, Save Away for a Rainy Day, Tyler tests Jeremy’s knowledge of where business and savings collide.

For our halftime App Snack, we're talking about Perplexity AI, which gives you clarity into sources of the information that AI brings in. Link: Perplexity AI.

In Follow the Debit, Jeremy will get a hypothetical situation from Tyler and he needs to figure out where the final debit will land.

And finally Fast Figures! Don’t be scared, it is the spooooky edition! Will Tyler make it through Jeremy’s questions unscathed?

Announcing the Winner of the Week: Accountants

And now, the Loser of the Week: BDO

Thanks for tuning in! We’ll see you in a fortnight for our next episode.

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A very spicy Unaccountable Episode 33 is here! Let’s get down to business with your hosts: 

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

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

We are joined by special guest and good friend Kirstin Reeder, owner of Purple Sapphire Business Solutions.

In Da News, we are talking about PWC staffing inconsistencies, alternative routes to a CPA, Syft gets acquired, and Intuit Enterprise Suite has been born. With Unaccountable Goes Accountable, Jeremy and Kirstin get quizzed on accountable plans.

For our halftime App Snack, we're talking about Drake Tax! Drake Tax is a desktop-based tax preparation software .Link: Drake Tax. Following up, is RB, RH, EF, aka is it the name of Rock Band, Race Horse, or Erotic Film. Sorry Mom!

And finally Fast Figures! Kirstin is in the hot seat and she is getting served accounting travel-themed questions with numerical answers. 

Announcing the Winner of the Week: Forwardly

And now, the Loser of the Week: Boeing

Thanks for tuning in! We’ll see you in a fortnight for our next episode.

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Unaccountable Episode 32 is here for you! We’ve got a great episode with your hosts: 

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

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

In Da News, it's that season - yes, Pumpkin Spice Lattes, but also getting next year’s budget together!

Otto Ought-To Know ‘bout Auto (say that 10 times fast), is where Tyler puts the pedal to the metal on questions about expensing auto vehicles. 

For our halftime App Snack, we're talking about ⁠Guideline⁠! Guideline helps you give your employees retirement plans through 401(s).

Following up, is What’s Up Start-Up? where Jeremy quizzes Tyler on hobby and startup losses. 

And finally Fast Figures! A penny for your thoughts? Because Tyler is giving Jeremy his thoughts on these penny-related trivia questions with numerical answers.

Announcing the Winner of the Week: Tyler Otto

And now, the Loser of the Week: QuickBooks Fee Payers

Thanks for tuning in! We’ll see you in a fortnight for our next episode.

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It’s time for Unaccountable Episode 31! We’ve got a great episode with your somewhat likable hosts: 

Tyler “South of the Border Slacker" Otto from Specialized Accounting, focusing on medium to large businesses in the glamorous hospitality and service industries.

Jeremy "Stay at Home Slouch" Van Groll from Nonprofit Bookkeeping, a champion for nonprofits with his accounting expertise.

This week we are graced by a special guest, Jaime Rodriguez, newly crowned head honcho of Bookkeepers.com and founder of Paralledger.

In Da News, the ERC continues to give us content. Plus baby season vs. busy season. Rounding out the games is Fast Figures, where Jaime is in the hot seat to provide numerical answers to our questions.

For our halftime App Snack, we're talking about Bookkeepers.com! This virtual bookkeeping master course teaches you everything to know about starting your own bookkeeping business all with a built-in community.

Following up, is Legal Ledger Showdown: Expert Edition! where Jeremy quizzes Jaime AND Tyler on the legal side of the accounting world. 

Announcing the Winner of the Week: CPA Bar Shenanigans

And now, the Loser of the Week: New Zealand Meth

Thanks for tuning in! We’ll see you in a fortnight for our next episode.

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Welcome back to Episode 30 to our special guest Ben Stein (of Keeper fame) and also our two (or three) listeners! Your hosts as usual are: 

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

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

As previously bragged about, we have a special guest, Ben Stein, business genius and CEO of Keeper. Since he’s been on the show before, it must mean he really likes us!! 🥹

In Da News, are we doing a major accounting oops? How are you handling the accounting of subscription softwares?

Rounding out the games is Fast Figures, where Ben is in the hot seat to provide numerical answers to our questions.

For our halftime App Snack, we're talking about Keeper of course! This bookkeeping app has some big news that we are getting the scoop on.

Next up, CEO ESP! (ESP meaning Extrasensory Perception) where Jeremy quizzes Tyler on the Summer 2024 Fortune/Deloitte CEO Survey findings. 

Finally, Get A Job, where Tyler enlightens Jeremy on best practices to save on taxes when it comes to exploiting - *cough* - we mean employing your kids.

Announcing the Winner of the Week: Olympic Athletes! 

And now, the Loser of the Week: Supporters of GLAAD

Thanks for tuning in! We’ll see you in a fortnight for our next episode.

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