What price ethics? Auditors stand to lose earnings in exchange for integrity

01:25 – Happy Birthday, Blake!

03:26 – David takes QuickBooks Online Accountant for a spin the real world

05:30 – The new titanium-flavored Apple Card – all hype, no substance? | ZDNet

07:45 – A few of QBOA’s underperforming features - the Accountants Apps Program and Slack - are getting the boot as Intuit keeps searching for a more perfect integration

12:04 – Xero’s Marketplace gets a new look, and some shiny new toys! | Digital First

*Correction: Jonathan Misfud is the author of this Digital First article. Blake mistakenly credited Sholto Macpherson. Apologies for the mix-up!

14:03 – Is Square biting off more than they’ll eventually be able to chew?

Square is taking a bite out of the hassle of managing a multitude of third-party food-delivery orders with their new orders platform | Square
With constant development of new tools, APIs, and features, Square aims to be the middleman between everything from orders to accounting systems.

18:18 – Meet the winners of CPA Practice Advisor’s Tax & Accounting Technology Innovation Awards, which includes a win for BQE Software – one of our sponsors. If you missed it earlier this year, check out our interview with CEO Shafat Qazi, and an excellent demo of BQE’s award-winning Core Intelligence AI.

24:05 – No magic here, just smoke and mirrors – yet another AI startup, Engineer.ai, is less than straightforward about human v. AI workload | The Verge

27:14 – What’s behind the allure of hiring non-accounting grads at CPA firms? Expansion of services, requiring more skill-diversified staffs, or the declining quality of a formal accounting education? | Journal of Accountancy

30:29 – The high cost of being an ethical, and skilled auditor – an eight-percent reduction in fees? | Accounting Today

35:14 – “We” is getting people Worked up over their IPO, some wonky financials, and their standard operating procedure | LinkedIn