Join us for another laugh-filled yet insightful episode of Digi-Tools in Accrual World from the Digital Disruptors! We cover the latest in accounting tech, featuring Caseware's AiDA digital assistant, Summa Tech's snazzy onboarding upgrades, and Dext's new approval functions. Plus, hear from the unstoppable Eriona Bajrakurtaj at her Volt launch, pr…

In this episode, we’re joined by Kayleigh Graham from Telleroo, who’s here to drop some serious knowledge bombs on scaling payments services, avoiding app disasters, and how not to detail your digital transformation. Kayleigh also gives her take on the 'influencer' debate which has continued since the Digital Disruptor Awards in September. We also …

Welcome to another thrilling episode of Digi-Tools in Accrual World —the podcast where accounting meets tech trends, professional updates, and occasionally funny banter. In this episode, we’re blending personal milestones, with global business expansions, Intuit's shiny new enterprise suite, and the lowdown on fresh Xero apps like Cone Practice Man…

We’ve got the juiciest app news with the iconic Xero snapping up Syft Analytics, Starling Bank's shocking customer checks, and Apron serving up security enhancements like it's going out of style. We talk with Heather Smith dishing about travel, ACCA elections and the rise of accounting influencers. From modern ERP insights with Matt at iPlicit to J…

Welcome to another episode of Digi-Tools in Accrual World! This episode is jam-packed with award-winning geniuses, boundary-pushing fintech updates, and some seriously controversial banter. Apron is now FCA authorised, Employment Hero has revamped its packages, and Karbon’s new marketplace is shaking things up! Join John, Ryan, and the crew as they…

Sore heads after the Digital Disruptor Awards (or anticipated sore heads. It’s like Back to The Future) This episode of Digi-Tools in Accrual World Podcast has it all! From the aftermath of our mind-blowing awards night to the mysteries of magnesium on feet (yes, you read that right). Indi experiments with deep sleep tactics, while Ryan clowns arou…

Welcome back to ‘Digi-Tools in Accrual World’ - the best place to stay up to speed on the world of finance, tech and accounting. This episode we debate whether accountants and bookkeepers are leading the charge with AI, laugh about John's beer subscription dilemma, and discuss the magic of Indi’s vegan pies. Plus, we geek out over Xero's latest upd…

In this full-throttle episode of 'Digi-Tools in Accrual World,' hosts Ryan Pearcy, John Toon and Indi Tatla, dive into the latest happenings and app news in the UK digital accountancy space. From the chilling tales of the North, magnesium foot rubs for better sleep, to rubbing vitamins into bald heads for that 'shiny and glossy' look, we’ve got it …

Back again with another pod and the latest App News from the accounting tech space - including everything from the much-anticipated Digital Disruptor Awards to the latest updates from Xero, QuickBooks, and more. Ryan juggles the chaos of a newborn, while John reminisces about tent life and questionable camping experiences - in stark contrast to Ind…

The Digital Disruptors are back again (mostly) with another update on all things cloud accounting. As we navigate the holiday madness, new tech debuts, recruitment Tinder and a plethora of “plethoras” - we’re asking for your support in nominating the great and good of the UK accounting tech scene. Nominations for the Digital Disruptor Awards close …

Are Fintechs moving too fast to keep cybercriminals out? This time we’re talking compliance! And not your boring, garden variety compliance (although Indi probably has some of that on the grounds somewhere). No, the kind that leaves the door open for some cockwomble in a server dungeon to steal tens of thousands of pounds if it’s not done properly.…

We quickly avoid Indi’s bunker to get the latest news in the accounting tech space for disruptors involved in digital transformation. We also bring you a session from the Digital Digest - with a deep dive into practical AI tools for your accounting or bookkeeping practice. Kevin Fitzgerald returns to chat about the huge opportunity in Outsourced Pa…

Wrapping up the events-season, we recap Xerocon and the Engage conference, as well as hearing from Kevin Fitzgerald at Employment Hero about their recent comms FUBAR, the usual App News and part two of Celso Pinto's revealing interview! In this jam-packed episode, John Toon, Indi Tatla and Ryan Pearcy catch up on their latest misadventures at Engag…

Buckle up and join us for a rollercoaster episode straight from the sizzling streets of Las Vegas with the latest in accounting and finance tech! John Toon navigates Eurovision vibes, European-style sunbathing and sky-high Starbucks prices at Engage conference. Along with the latest App News and updates from FreeAgent, do not miss Pixie co-founder …

It’s that time of year again! Well, sort of. This year we’re pushing our annual Criterion Month back a month due to summer travel plans, which will perhaps give us time to buy some of the blu rays on sale at Barnes & Noble’s July Criterion Sale? Who knows, but one thing we do know […]Av Mildly Pleased

Welcome back to the Digi-Tools in Accrual World podcast! Join us as we throwback to Accountex, where Ryan decided to desert us for the peaceful woods. Indy lost her voice, John was knackered - but thankfully we had some stellar help from the Systems Advisory Network. As always, this episode covers the latest in app releases, raises and acquisitions…

This will be our last episode of The Pick for a few months, and luckily we picked a fun one. On this episode, we review Battle Beyond The Stars, both as a tribute to legendary producer Roger Corman (who passed away last month) and also as a tribute to the enthusiasm we once had for […]Av Mildly Pleased

#S4E10 Wading through the post-conference blues (before the big blue conference) we’re back with another episode! In App News: 0:04:28 Allica Bank's New Partnerships Team 0:05:50 Closure of Influential Women's Tech Network 0:07:40 Highlights from the Xero Awards 0:09:42 New Features and Updates from Xero 0:10:54 Xero Small Business Index 0:12:29 Pl…

Despite the gap, we keep things in line with our previous episode by staying in the heist genre in this episode with the Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges vehicle Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. Though things had changed a bit in the heist movie by the time of the film’s 1971 release, there are still plenty of […]…

The legendary Tony Stevenson from FreeAgent joins us on the podcast this week. Voted the friendliest accounting tech software, we're putting the spotlight on the host of new features they're releasing over the last few months. Watch this space to hear and see more! Also Jordan Vickery reveals the growth playbook for accounting techs looking to shor…

Do you know where you are? You’re in The Asphalt Jungle, baby. And you’re gonna see some guys die! Or just get caught while trying to pull off a heist. This episode, we’re keeping it in the ’50s again with one of the more influential caper flicks of all time, while also looking a bit […]Av Mildly Pleased

Have you caught the news on the latest apps in the market? There are some new kids on the block in payment automation apps, and we're keen to hear from some of the OGs to find out their perspectives and lessons learned on market trends/adoption over the last two years. We spend some time with Joe Lines, CEO of Nook, to talk about tech innovations, …

This episode, we’re getting a little antsy while talking about those giant invasive species from 1954’s Them! We’re celebrating the film’s 70th anniversary by taking a look at the era of 3-D glasses, communist paranoia, and giant monsters borne of the atomic bomb. There’s also plenty of talk regarding the Wilhelm scream, the legendary stock […]…

Apron, the AP accounting tech focusing on all things payable, has been on a mission for some big software releases since it burst onto the scene late last year post their Series raise. We catch up with Bogdan Uzbekov about his plans to service the accounting market and plans to go into banking, carding or lending. Hear more here. Don't forget to bo…

This week on The Pick, we’re going back to the ’90s (again) and back to David Cronenberg (again) by taking a look at 1999’s eXistenZ (which is not pronounced how you’d think). Yet, despite the familiarity inherent in this episode’s Pick, it’s far from a run-of-the-mill movie, even if it does feel fairly par for […]…

Join John while he interviews Vidya Peters on her time so far with Datasnipper. Ex-Marqeta COO, Vidya was appointed CEO of Datasnipper, an intelligent automation platform that recently raised $100 million in a Series B funding round at a valuation of $1 billion. John catches up with Vidya to find out the plan for growth in the UK and all things acc…

We are, once again, back. We’re also back on our bullshit reviewing a movie with a cult following and a strange cultural footprint that we’ve been meaning to get to the bottom of. In honor of its 30th anniversary, we’re taking a look at Cabin Boy, the first and only big-screen collaboration between Chris Elliott […]…

This week we are joined by MD of Major's Accounts, Eriona Bajrakurtaj, who talks about her entrepreneurial journey from very humble beginnings to being one of the most enterprising female entrepreneurs in the accountancy industry. If you're looking at how to shake up your Practice and press a hard reset, give this a listen to see if Eriona's playbo…

This week we're joined by the super impressive Sabby Gill who talks to us about how Dext has levelled up on its core product, Bookkeeping Data Automation. We cover latest changes and priorities for the business as well as Dextension and the application of AI in the roadmap. Also in this week's app news: End of QB desktop in US? - https://insightful…

Hear the latest app news with Ryan, John and Indi: HMRC mandate payrolling benefits https://www.accountancyage.com/2024/01/25/hmrc-to-mandate-payrolling-of-benefits-from-april-2026-implications-and-preparations-for-accountants/ Launch of Receipt Bot - https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/tech/accounting-software/receipt-bot-targets-accounting-data-revol…

After a bizarre year for cinema, we set our sights on… possibly another bizarre year for cinema. That’s right, we’re doing our annual look ahead to our most anticipated (and least anticipated movies) of the new year. In 2024, superhero movies seem to be out (unless you’re talking about our least anticipated list) and what’s […]…

Ryan, John and Indi spend a bit of time popping the hood of Johnny Gaunt’s new venture, Socket. Hidden in stealth for the best part of a year, JG has re-emerged and taking Linked In by storm with his recent spate of social influencing on speed. Hear more about his latest venture and how he’s helping to remove friction points and avoid the Frankenst…

Join our Digital Disruptors community to keep updated on the latest app news and events we'll be running this year. This week we have a bumper app news to kick off 2024 and we take a look back at 2023 on apps we would bed, buy, bin based on their releases and forward plans. In app news this week: GI and Advancetrack settle - https://www.accountancy…

Just when you thought 2023 was over, we’re here to take a slightly belated look back at the year that was. Kicking things off before we get into posting our Top Tens of 2023 over on Mildly Pleased is, of course, the award show that bears the site’s name. We’re talking about awarding the “good […]Av Mildly Pleased

End of the year and that's a wrap for 2023. We end on the same note as we started with AI, or as Daniel Lawrence of Bots For That puts it, "Intelligent Automation". Have you considered RPA or using AI of manual tasks such as bank reconciliation rather than hiring? Well this tidy interview gives you an idea of how other accounting firms are using in…

Every time an underrated Christmas movie is acknowledged, an angel gets its wings. Or at least, that’s what we’d like to think after talking about The Preacher’s Wife, a Christmas movie that we enjoyed quite a bit despite it not being one of the big holiday movies everybody watches this time of year. We delve […]…

Latest app news covering the numerous software and business updates, this week we feature: Sage results - https://www.sage.com/investors/investor-downloads/press-releases/2023/11/full-year-2023-results-22-november-2023/ Xero results - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kirstygodfreybilly_today-we-reported-xeros-half-year-earnings-activity-7128196997060…

We’re back in romantic comedyland, looking once again at Richard Curtis’s wish-fulfillment shenanigans (and another Julia Roberts movie) with a discussion of 1999’s Notting Hill. Even though we split on this one, it’s a fairly cordial conversation full of British accents and debate over the charms (or lack thereof) contained by its co-star Hugh Gra…

In this episode John spends some time with Sam O'Connor, GM at Oak North and ex-Co-Founder of Coconut, for a post mortem on the exit of Coconut. As most will recall Coconut exited earlier this year to GoSimpleTax - thanks to a delayed MTD for ITSA. But we hear all about how Oak North, one of the fast growth and profitable Banks in the UK is working…

Needless to say, the gap between this latest and our last episode hasn’t been all that… brief. It wasn’t helped by the fact that The Pelican Brief is an overwhelming passable but unremarkable film, and one that pales a bit compared to some of the other John Grisham adaptations that were filling multiplexes in the […]…

In this episode we're joined by Alex Von Schirmeister, Xero's EMEA MD, who talks all things small business fresh off the back of the Small Business Accounting Report released by Xero earlier this month. Hear about the work being done by Xero in Number 10 on rooting out late payments aka unapproved debt as well as news on the big priorities in Xero …

A very juicy episode - in just over an hour we cover app news, the latest from QuickBooks conference and a pod collab with Aaron Patrick and Johan Goree, as well as a hop over to the other side of the world to join Alex Falcon from Soaring Falcon on her latest Practice priorities. Kicking off with Damon from Employment Hero on whether how real time…

We end this Shocktober (for the most part) with a movie that’s hard to even categorize as a horror movie, even if it tackles one of the most iconic movie monsters. 1994’s Wolf sees the odd pairing of Mike Nichols’ actor-centric directing with modern-day werewolves and the results are… pretty fun if you’re willing to […]…

In this episode we're joining Damon Anderson to talk data security in payroll tech. Followed by a flashback interview with Will Farnell post the launch of his book The Human Firm earlier this year - we talk tribalism, kindness and commercialising accounting. App News this week has run a little off schedule but in this week we cover a range of topic…

As we make our way through Shocktober, this week we take a look at a horror movie of sorts (or perhaps an “erotic fantasy”) with the 1982 remake of Cat People. We discuss how effectively the film expands on its horror-noir inspiration and whether director Paul Schrader was the best person to bring this source […]…

We’re rollin’ in with another episode of The Pick, this one aimed at the helicopter-fueled action flick Blue Thunder from 1983. We discuss pretty much every aspect of its modest cultural imprint, including its short-lived TV adaptation, as well as our fondness for its stars, Roy Scheider and John’s good friend Malcolm MacDowell. Weirdly enough, […]…

Seems only fitting Heather Smith joins us for the introduction of our new network, the Digital Disruptors, to talk about the value of networks, introverts and peer learning opportunities. What networks are you part of? Do you have a unique perspective to share? Come and join our Digital Disruptors network. In this week's app news: Intuit posts grea…

After our usual summer break, The Pick is back with another batch of episodes that we kick off with 1999’s Mystery Men. What started as an intended tribute to the late Paul Reubens also ended up being a tribute to Smash Mouth frontman Steve Harwell, who also passed away before we recorded this episode. We […]…

We are rolling on with episode 2. In this episode we throw back to the time where John was incapacitated and locked in a Flinder chalet - left to his own devices he pondered life's big questions... and mainly what Jon Gaunt would do next post his exit from Dext. Joined by some friendly faces, Alex Bond Burnett, Pamela Phillips, Luke Streeter and Da…

It's Season 3 and we're all set for another season with our new editor in tow, thanks to Leigh at Nomad Video. In this episode we cover app news, the big pricing debate and an intro to Damon from Employment Hero. In app news this week: Xero and Dext price increases (also Sage) - Dext pricing change from today | AccountingWEB Fathom – budget release…