Square Books is here — is accounting next?

Released Tuesday, 22nd October 2019

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Square Books is here — is accounting next?

Tuesday, 22nd October 2019

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Show Notes

00:16 – Putting a face to fraud - Michael Mann finally appears, at least in pictorial form | Daily Mail UK
01:18 – Practicing for his big act? The Daily Mail article includes a video clip from what seems to be some form of corporate roleplaying/training. Enjoy.
03:02 – Come rain, sleet, snow, or fire alarm, some Big Four firms file returns no matter what!
03:44 – More automation from Square with Square Assistant for AI-powered scheduling and messaging | Square
04:12 – Square’s hitting the Books … The GL kind | Square
07:03 – Square - reinventing the accounting wheel one double entry at a time
08:04 – Is this all part of Square's plan to become a bank?
11:38 – Square deals meals - Square for Restaurants brings management tools to the table | Square
12:53 – Meals on wheels? Along with the management toolset, Square for Restaurants integrates with Caviar, their meal-delivery service
14:55 – Outside looking in? How do accountants and bookkeepers stay relevant in the face of the ever-increasing automation and DIY accounting tools?
16:39 – Who's really in charge? With Big Tech firms controlling the software on your PC, how much control do you have left? | Yahoo!
20:13 – There is no such thing as free! Reckon cuts off customers until they buy new licenses | The Sydney Morning Herald
21:36 – QB Desktop Payroll gone come 2020 | Intuit QuickBooks
23:36 – Hubdoc Xeros in on better functionality with new permissions features | Xero Blog
24:33 – Can a Xero change its Stripe? Xero adds several new functions to its Stripe integration
25:39 – Bill.com's moving on up to the midmarket with their latest round of features | Finextra
28:00 – Veem and Zapier have joined forces to add even more functionality to Veem's payment service | Veem
31:57 – Need to learn how to use Zapier? Find a trainer, like Heather Satterly to help you out | Nerd Enterprises
32:06 – Gusto adds to their FreshBooks integration | FreshBooks
33:01 – No more slacking off, with new custom workflows in Slack | Slack Blog
35:06 – ScaleFactor unleashes a small-biz credit card | BusinessWire
36:08 – Small banks-tech company collabs aren't just a fad, but how much is too much when it comes to growth? | Bank Innovation
36:45 – Chime broke the bank, literally, when their app completely shut down | CNBC
38:14 – Well, actually, Galileo, the company powering Chime, was the true source of the outage
38:49 – Galileo didn't seem to have time to worry about the Chime outage. They were too busy touting their latest $77 million raise
41:16 – Leave your hubris at the door, please - these bank-tech firms might want to start focusing more on their 'users' and less on their egos
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