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May 19, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting

Financial Success and Reality: What Americans Think vs. What They Earn

May 19, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting
Financial Success and Reality: What Americans Think vs. What They Earn

51% of Americans say they need $100,000-$250,000 yearly to feel financially successful. Yet only 13.2% of US households actually earn that much. That's a massive disconnect.

May 19, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting

Tagged: The Accounting Podcast

May 18, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting

Firms Using AI Make More $, PCAOB Shutdown Fight, The Impossible Tariff Test

May 18, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting
Firms Using AI Make More $, PCAOB Shutdown Fight, The Impossible Tariff Test

Firms using AI generate $45K more revenue per employee than non-adopters. Plus: How to protect yourself from AI voice scams, and why the "impossible" tariff test (with its 4% pass rate) might be your next career move.

May 18, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting

Tagged: The Accounting Podcast

May 15, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting

Accounting's Uncomfortable Truth: We've Institutionalized Dishonesty

May 15, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting
Accounting's Uncomfortable Truth: We've Institutionalized Dishonesty

I joined Devon Coombs on his "Ambition, Aligned" podcast for what might be my most candid conversation yet about the accounting profession's biggest problems.

May 15, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting

Tagged: public accounting

May 14, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting

Beyond the Purchase: The Make-or-Break Integration Phase of Firm Acquisitions

May 14, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting
Beyond the Purchase: The Make-or-Break Integration Phase of Firm Acquisitions

Most buyers overinvest in the acquisition process and underinvest in what really matters - integration. This episode of Earmark Podcast dives deep into the critical post-acquisition phase of firm mergers.

May 14, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting
April 30, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting

Ramp Wants to Be the Federal Spend Card, Interview with Mark Koziel

April 30, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting
Ramp Wants to Be the Federal Spend Card, Interview with Mark Koziel

Firms are telling CPAs not to use their credentials on LinkedIn, email signatures, or business cards. Why? We asked AICPA President Mark Koziel in our latest episode. Plus: Ramp's federal contract bid, tariff uncertainty, and the plan to kill the PCAOB.

April 30, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting

Tagged: The Accounting Podcast

April 8, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting

The crazy calculation behind Trump's tariffs

April 8, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting
The crazy calculation behind Trump's tariffs

David and I demonstrate live how to create convincing fake receipts using AI—and discuss the serious implications for fraud detection. We also break down the weird math of Trump's new tariffs.

April 8, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting

Tagged: The Accounting Podcast

April 8, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting

You can now make realistic fake receipts with GPT-4o

April 8, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting
You can now make realistic fake receipts with GPT-4o

While everyone else was using ChatGPT to create Studio Ghibli-style images last week, accountants took a different route. We're not making beautiful Japanese anime. We're making fake receipts!

April 8, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting

Tagged: fraud, AI, ChatGPT, receipts, fake receipts

April 7, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting

"I was accused of lying": PCAOB's Christina Ho on standing up to Senator Warren

April 7, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting
"I was accused of lying": PCAOB's Christina Ho on standing up to Senator Warren

In my recent conversation with Christina Ho on the Earmark podcast, she shared her experience as the first PCAOB Board Member to publicly dissent on a proposal and the surprising backlash that followed.

April 7, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting

Tagged: PCAOB, Christina Ho, Elizabeth Warren, Earmark Podcast

April 3, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting

Should the PCAOB be disbanded? A board member's surprising take

April 3, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting
Should the PCAOB be disbanded? A board member's surprising take

Should DOGE “delete” the PCAOB? In other words, should the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board be disbanded and its responsibilities returned to the SEC? And has the PCAOB had any contact with DOGE, the “Department of Governmental Efficiency?”

April 3, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting

Tagged: PCAOB, audit, DOGE

April 2, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting

17% of millennials are considering not filing taxes this year

April 2, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting
17% of millennials are considering not filing taxes this year

In our latest episode of The Accounting Podcast, we dive into this shocking statistic and IRS officials' claims that budget cuts will widen the tax gap by $500 billion.

April 2, 2025
Blake Oliver
Accounting

Tagged: The Accounting Podcast

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