December, 2019

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Ep. 38: Steve McNally - Business Transformations

IMA's Count Me

Steve's Articles: [link] [link] FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Adam : (00:00) Hey everyone, this is Count Me In, IMA's podcast about all things affecting the accounting and finance world. I'm your host, Adam Larson and I'd like to welcome you back to another episode filled with valuable insight from an industry leader. Steve McNally is a CFO, board director and thought leader who joined Mitch to talk about business transformations.

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Should you buy Bill.com stock?

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors OnPay: [link] OnPay is offering an exclusive promo code only for the listeners of The Cloud Accounting Podcast to get three free months of OnPay payroll service for any of your clients that you set up by February of 2020! Visit the sponsor link, and use code "CAP3FREE" to take advantage of this offer! Show Notes 01:59 – What’s in a name? Ask Richard Kopelman , CEO of Aprio | Aprio 04:07 – The U.S. can’t seem to tear itself away from using paper checks, but Australia can!

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Top Five Blog Posts of 2019

Dext

2019 has been a banner year for Receipt Bank. Over 350,000 small businesses and 50,000 financial advisors have grown with us as we move out of one decade and into a brand new one. The Receipt Bank blog (now Dext blog!

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What Does a Bookkeeper Do?

Billah and Associates

Whether you have a small business or an established one every business has two things in common, you earn money and you spend it. The job of a bookkeeper is to track your business earnings and expenses. In simple words, bookkeepers ensure that all of your business income, expenses and transactions are recorded in your book and they reconcile your company’s financial accounts every month.

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Elevating Accounting Practices: The Power of Outsourcing and Automation in the Digital Age

Speaker: Nancy Wu, Head of Sales and Customer Success at SkyStem

Join us for an enlightening webinar as we delve into the transformative realm of modern accounting practices. In today's digital age, the convergence of outsourcing and automation has revolutionized how businesses manage their financial operations. In this webinar we will explore the synergistic potential of these two strategies to streamline processes, enhance accuracy, save cost and drive strategic decision-making.

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HOA Management Tech: 6 Can’t-Miss Solutions to Improve Efficiency

AvidXchange

Multitasking is mandatory for community association management groups charged with managing finances and maintaining properties while handling owner issues and communicating with their boards in a timely manner. This vast range of responsibilities can make it easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal: growth. Here are six technology solutions for community association management companies that can create efficiencies by automating and offloading many of those manual tasks, giving managers more tim

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How Automation is Changing Financial Services – SAP Business Entity Recognition

SAP Accounts Payable

By Ivona Crnoja and Nik Sacher. New artificial intelligence technologies are in the process of fundamentally transforming the financial services market. Over the past years especially the financial sector has recognised the economic benefits of artificial intelligence – gaining new insights from existing data to optimise credit decisions and improve financial risk management, automating business processes that previously only worked with manual human intervention and improving the customer

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CPA licensure evolves at an evolutionary pace

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors OnPay: [link] OnPay is offering an exclusive promo code only for the listeners of The Cloud Accounting Podcast to get three free months of OnPay payroll service for any of your clients that you set up by February of 2020! Visit the sponsor link, and use code "CAP3FREE" to take advantage of this offer! Show Notes 01:57 – The gentlemen discuss a big reveal at the Digital CPA Conference – a proposed revamping of the CPA licensure model and what it could mean!

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3 Steps to Surviving Self-Assessment Season

Dext

Most accountants have their own self-assessment horror stories. Each and every client has their own mountain of documents that need to be included in their self-assessment returns, many of which either suddenly appear at once right before the deadline or never end up materialising at all.

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Ep. 37: Luke Harris - A Change in Accounting Studies

IMA's Count Me

FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Mitch : (00:05) Welcome back to Count Me In. I'm your host Mitch Roshong and this is IMA's podcast about all things affecting the accounting and finance world. For today's episode, we're going to take a look at the education that is impacted by our changing industry. As we hear Adam talk with Luke Harris, associate at PWC as he explains his recent accounting studies and the experiences he's found most helpful in entering the profession.

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Ep. 35: Keith Lewis - Separate Yourself = Quantifying Accounting Abilities

IMA's Count Me

Contact Keith: [link] Keith's website: [link] FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Adam : (00:05) Welcome back to Count Me In, IMA’s podcast about all things affecting the accounting and finance world. I am your host, Adam Larson, and this is episode 35 of our series. In a moment you will hear Keith Lewis, management accountant and an international speaker share his big picture thoughts on how individuals can utilize best practices and develop the skills needed to set them apart when looking to build their o

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Predictions You Can Rely On: How Data Drives Successful Financial Forecasting

Speaker: Robbie Bhathal, Founder & CEO, and Matthew Acalin, Head of Credit Intelligence

In today's volatile financial environment, how confident are you in your company’s financial forecasting? To get the most accurate cash predictions that will lead to long-term financial survival, real-time data is critical. Innovative cash management strategies can lead to better credit opportunities, more sustainable growth, and long-term financial prosperity.

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The Legends ? Live at QuickBooks Connect

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Intuit QuickBooks [link] Show Notes 01:25 – Meet the legends! 02:54 – Our guests share their biggest takeaways from QuickBooks Connect 2019 03:04 – For Michelle, it's AAA - apps, automation, and AI 03:28 – For Laura, it's the evolution of advisory 03:47 – Clayton's takeaways included latest iterations of cloud evolution and getting ready for new opportunities 04:54 – Clayton sheds some light on what he's doing now 06:04 – Laura's got her head and her firm in the cloud!

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The Coaches ? Live at QuickBooks Connect

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Intuit QuickBooks [link] Show Notes 00:57 – Meet the coaches - Michael Palmer, Michelle Weinstein and Heather Townsend! 01:41 – The number-one concern for accountants and bookkeepers - the art of pricing 02:44 – Heather provides a different perspective on the definition of value pricing 03:52 – Michelle encounters many accountants who want to double revenue without working on their mindset first 04:23 – Michael shares two key factors to getting value pricing right - self-worth and educ

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Ep. 34: Brian Kush - Coaching Accounting Leaders

IMA's Count Me

Brian Kush: [link] Top 10 Books for Accountants: [link] Intend2Lead: www.intend2lead.com FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Adam : (00:00) This is episode 34 of Count me In, IMA's podcast about all things affecting the accounting and finance world. I'm your host, Adam Larson, and I'd like to welcome you back for another great perspective on the skills needed to succeed in today's accounting industry.

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Next Level Women Leaders ? Live at QuickBooks Connect

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Intuit QuickBooks [link] Show Notes 00:57 – Meet the women behind Next Level Women Leaders - Stacy, Nancy, and Laura! 01:49 – Next Level Women Leaders focuses on helping women align who they are inside with how they appear on the outside 03:09 – Women tend to absorb the stories we're told growing up, along with the cultural expectations when creating their own stories 04:40 – In the accounting world, women have the dual challenges of finding their own value, as a woman, and as an accoun

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The Definitive Guide to Spend Management

The status quo for AP in small and mid-market companies is broken. It consists of messy tech stacks of siloed solutions that give rise to manual work, a lack of control, wasted spend, and unnecessary risks. The benefits of shifting to spend management are tangible, measurable, and are felt across the whole organization. Spend management is a different way of thinking and an innovation whose time has come.

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Value pricing panel becomes value pricing consultation ? Live at QuickBooks Connect

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Intuit QuickBooks [link] Show Notes 02:05 – Meet Lee and Mary from Breakwater Accounting and Advisory! 02:48 – Meet Rhondalynn, author of " Pricing Value " 03:50 – Rhondalynn speaks to some of the challenges when it comes to adopting a value-pricing model 05:19 – How can you do value pricing if you never talk about value? 06:21 – Breakwater's challenge in moving to value pricing - really understanding the true value of the services they provide 08:31 – Another challenge for Breakwater

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Top 5 Accounting Trends to Shape The Industry, According to Experts

Dext

2020 is not just a new year – it’s a new decade. Here are the top accounting trends set to shape 2020 and beyond, according to our financial fortune-tellers. In the last decade alone, the industry has evolved beyond recognition.

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Industry Experts on How to Enhance Efficiency, Convert Shoebox Clients And Build a Paperless Firm

Dext

Dext’s partner community, Orange Select, recently hosted another discussion with our global partners. Topics ranged from cloud advocacy and paperwork submissions to how to get the most out of Dext (former Receipt Bank)’s features.

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We interview a real-life QuickBooks Live bookkeeper ? Live at QuickBooks Connect

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Intuit QuickBooks [link] Show Notes 00:57 – Claudell is so far beyond MIA, we couldn't even say her name right! 01:05 – Who needs Claudell, when you have a real LIVE QuickBooks Live bookkeeper to talk with? Meet Pam Bingham! 01:30 – David's got a gazillion questions! 02:54 – Pam shares what it's like to be a QuickBooks Live bookkeeper 03:30 – Job-in-a-box - QuickBooks Live provides its bookkeepers with everything they need to start - from equipment to training 04:48 – The main focu

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Navigating Financial Storms: Strategies for Building Resilient Balance Sheets

Speaker: Carolina Aponte - Owner and CEO, Caja Holdings LLC

In today's rapidly changing business environment, building a resilient balance sheet is crucial to the survival of any business. A resilient balance sheet allows a company to withstand financial shocks and adapt to changing market conditions. To achieve this, companies need to focus on key strategies such as maintaining adequate liquidity, managing debt levels, diversifying revenue streams, and prioritizing profitability over growth.

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The year ahead for accounting & why remote work works

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors OnPay: [link] OnPay is offering an exclusive promo code only for the listeners of The Cloud Accounting Podcast to get three free months of OnPay payroll service for any of your clients that you set up by February of 2020! Visit the sponsor link, and use code "CAP3FREE" to take advantage of this offer! Show Notes 00:14 – We made the list ! Congratulations to fellow accounting professionals and former guests, such as Dawn Brolin , Roman Kepczyk , Ariege Misherghi , and Donny Shimamoto , a

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Latest on QuickBooks Live Bookkeeping ? Live at QuickBooks Connect

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Intuit QuickBooks [link] Show Notes 01:20 – Meet Ted! 02:59 – Ted talks about Intuit's impetus behind moving into the service game 03:28 – Confidence is key! Most of the small businesses without an accountant or bookkeeper lack the confidence to reach out for help 04:42 – While QuickBooks Live and TurboTax Live share similar tech, their services are very different 06:04 – QuickBooks Live is only available, currently, in the U.S., and all Live bookkeepers reside in the U.S. 07:03 – T

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What's new for QBOA and ProAdvisors ? Live at QuickBooks Connect

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Intuit QuickBooks [link] Show Notes 00:57 – Meet Ariege! 02:44 – Fun fact: 500 new small businesses start up for every one new accounting professional entering the workforce 03:18 – How is Intuit helping small businesses succeed? Mainly through automation and a high level of quality 04:19 – Fear is not an option - with the obvious shortage of accountants, the only way to effectively help clients is with automation 05:38 – Ariege explains why the new QuickBooks feature, the Optimization

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The Canadians! ? Live at QuickBooks Connect

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Intuit QuickBooks [link] Show Notes 01:35 – Let's meet The Canadians! (Well, three of them, anyway …) 03:41 – Canada's no longer last in the lunch line with the increasing focus on QuickBooks Online 04:50 – Scott and Brad pontificate on the new QBO statement-importing feature 06:27 – How do Canadians approach cloud accounting, and all the innovation that comes along with it?

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Putting the ‘Tech’ in Spend Management Techniques

Speaker: Wayne Spivak, President and CFO of SBA * Consulting Ltd., Industry Writer, Public Speaker

If you’re lost in the world of spend management needs and your GAP analysis is lacking perspective on the future state of your business performance, listen up! With the advancement of technology, the implementation of spend management best practices and concrete GAP analyses is more streamlined and accessible than ever before. And while this may sound like great news for you and your clients, it won’t be worthwhile unless you have the latest techniques to back up your ambitions!

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Why ethics and culture matter ? Live at Sage Intacct Advantage

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Bill.com [link] Teampay [link] Show Notes 02:09 – Meet Kelly! 03:05 – Kelly talks true crime | WGN Radio 07:21 – It takes a balance - you need the 'yes' people and the naysayers to keep you from making crappy decisions 08:36 – The first step to changing your firm's culture - you've gotta know you have a problem! 10:21 – Speaking of problems, we talk about the melee surrounding audit watchdog, PCAOB, and KPMG | WSJ 10:52 – We humans tend to take a one-dimensional viewpoint when it co

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HIPAA, privacy, and accountants ? Live at Sage Intacct Advantage

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Bill.com [link] Teampay [link] Show Notes 01:08 – Meet Mariana! 01:46 – What's a lawyer doing at an accounting conference? 04:22 – Mariana takes us to school on HIPAA 06:38 – Why should accountants and bookkeepers care about HIPAA? 06:58 – There are three types of entities that fall under HIPAA protection - healthcare providers, plans, or clearinghouses 08:19 – Any accounting system that contains names and addresses of patients must comply with HIPAA Privacy and Security rules 10:09 –

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Ep. 32: Robert Leonard - Climbing the Ladder

IMA's Count Me

Contact Robert: [link] The Investors Network Podcast: www.theinvestorspodcast.com IMA Life-Robert Leonard: [link] FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Mitch : (00:00) This is Count Me In , IMA's podcast about all things affecting the accounting and finance world. I am Mitch Roshong and I'd like to welcome you back for episode 32 with corporate finance manager Robert Leonard.

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Is the billable hour making a comeback?

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors OnPay: [link] OnPay is offering an exclusive promo code only for the listeners of The Cloud Accounting Podcast to get three free months of OnPay payroll service for any of your clients that you set up by February of 2020! Visit the sponsor link, and use code "CAP3FREE" to take advantage of this offer! Show Notes 01:27 – Things to do in Tucson at 4:30 in the morning when your puppy has to go potty – listen to podcasts from former guests , like Scott Orn, of course!

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Your New & Improved Month-End Close Process Is Not So Far Out of Reach!

All accounting teams know what it is like to dread the inevitable month-end scaries. If there was a way to feel less burdened and maybe even a little enthusiastic to work on your month-end close and reconciliation process, would you do it? No, don't answer that, of course you would! Automate your month-end close process by up to 40% with SkyStem's ART and see how much more alive you feel!

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Career path: CPA ? CFO ? CEO ? Live at Sage Intacct Advantage

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Bill.com [link] Teampay [link] Show Notes 01:39 – Laura outlines her career path from school to VP of Finance 02:30 – Laura liked using the Sage Intacct product so much at a former company that she wanted to become part of Sage Intacct 04:25 – What's the difference between accounting and finance departments? 05:22 – Laura's excited to work on the tools that will help 'eliminate' the month-end close 06:15 – Laura talks about what CFO 3.0 means for her and her team 06:52 – You really ha

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Let's talk subscription revenue models ? Live at Sage Intacct Advantage

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Bill.com [link] Teampay [link] Show Notes 01:10 – What does David Appel do, precisely? 02:15 – If accounting happens in Vegas, does it have to stay in Vegas? 03:28 – Repetition is key to creating job satisfaction, personal validation, and economic value for your clients 05:30 – It's not about billable hours and recurring revenue, it's about creating the most economic value for not only your clients, but as many people as possible 09:19 – David A. gives some examples of successful subs

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Ep. 31: Monisha de Quadros - Transforming the CFO Function

IMA's Count Me

Contact Monisha: [link] Sparkbox Group: www.sparkboxgrp.com FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Adam: (00:05) Hey everyone. Welcome back to Count Me In, IMA's podcast about all things affecting the accounting and finance world. Thanks for joining us today. I'm Adam Larson and this is episode 31 of count me in for today's episode. We're going to hear Mitchell's conversation with Monisha de Quadros, a former CFO in both the public and nonprofit sector and now founder of her own outsource CFO firm.

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Going the Extra Mile with Dext and Tripcatcher

Dext

Almost a decade ago, Debbie Whitaker had a decision to make: break ties with her accountancy partner and start her own company or stay where she was.

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Book of Secrets for the Month-End Close

Developing a consistent month-end close doesn’t need to be a mystery. We’re sharing our top 10 secrets (plus one bonus!) for streamlining your close.