The Loop - Accountants
Ryan Pearcy, John Toon and Indi Tatla
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Intuit AI Write-Back, ApprovalMax Pricing and Telleroo Interest || Be In The Loop
Indi Tatla, Lara Manton and Robbie White on a week where almost every story turned out to be about payments. Intuit has taken its QuickBooks connectors in Claude and ChatGPT past read-only, so a business owner can raise and send an invoice from inside a chat window. Robbie calls the direction of tra...
16 Months In, Xero's CTO Is Out - What Happened?
Xero software news takes a strange turn as the company faces a sudden leadership change. Understand the impact on their roadmap. This update examines the recent strategic shift at Xero, focusing on their push to become a comprehensive financial operating system for businesses. We break down the impl...
6 31 FreeAgent and Joiin
This video examines Joiin as a solution for businesses managing complex data streams, now it's integrated with FreeAgent. If you struggle to align financial figures with day-to-day operational metrics, this breakdown explains how the platform bridges that gap. We focus on how the tool functions with...
Firm Models, Big Budgets and Nobody checking || In The Loop
Almost half of UK firms say they plan to spend up to £100,000 on AI this year. John Toon runs the numbers on what that actually buys and does not believe a word of it. Indi, John Toon and Eriona Bajrakurtaj work through a month where the same question keeps surfacing from different directions. If so...
Xero's C-Suite Churn, FreeAgent x Joiin and Vibe Coding the Ledger || In The Loop
John Toon is joined by Ian Gregory of Advancetrack and Billie McLoughlin to work through July's accounting tech news, and it turns into a run of arguments about what a general ledger is actually for. Billie opens on the batch newly certified for the Xero App Store. Garfield, the UK's first SRA-regul...
Starling Expense Cards, Copilot Skills in Excel, Pilot Meridian and Puzzle AI Close || In The Loop
Ryan Pearcy is joined by Kevin Fitzgerald and Leigh Stallard for a bumper week of accounting tech news, and a period close nobody can stop talking about. Starling has rolled out expense cards, ringfenced spending spaces and read-only access for bookkeepers and accountants. Kevin sees a bank pulling ...
Xero Stretches Up, Trims Down | Be In The Loop
In this episode of Digi-Tools in a Cruel World, host Indi is joined by global accounting-tech heavyweights Heather Smith (dialling in from a beautiful corner of the UK Cotswolds) and Kendrick Hair (live from the US). Together, the team tears down the massive wave of announcements out of Xerocon Lond...
Xerocon London special: are accountants still important to Xero?
Recorded live from day two of Xerocon London. Xero opened the show with two solid hours of announcements. Xero Force, the Ultra plan, smart data capture, JAX and a big push on the rise of the builder. Most of it is in beta and lands later in the year. So we spent two days in the hall asking the peop...