The Loop - Accountants
Ryan Pearcy, John Toon and Indi Tatla
The Loop is home to the Digi-Tools in Accrual World Podcast and the Digital Disruptor Awards.
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...
Xerocon London special: Are accountants and the ecosystem 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...
What HMRC's timely payments plan, Peppol e-invoicing and AI audit tools mean for your firm || In ...
John Toon is joined by Alastair Barlow and Vipul Sheth of Advancetrack for the accounting tech and fintech news that actually matters. They open on Cortea, the Berlin audit AI startup that has raised over £10m from Dawn Capital, with Larry Bradley, the former global head of audit at KPMG, in as an a...
Would You Hand Your Client's Card to an AI?
Ryan Pearcy is joined by Lara Manton of LJ Bookkeeping and Robbie from Forbes Mazars for a run through the accounting tech news that actually matters this month, with plenty of disagreement along the way. The big one close to home: The Loop has acquired the Early Adopters Hub, the community that vet...
Hiring Freeze? Employment Costs Hit Breaking Point
Rising employment costs are reshaping the job market. Learn how a 10% increase in labor expenses is triggering hiring freezes. This analysis examines recent data showing UK employment costs surged by 10% over the past year. We break down why businesses are reacting with hiring freezes and position c...
We Bought the Bridge | Robots Beat the Humans (?!) | Be in the Loop.
John Toon is joined by guest presenters Billie McLoughlin and Kendrick Hair to work through the month's accounting tech and fintech news, with plenty of disagreement along the way. The headline story is Digits, which published a benchmark claiming its bookkeeping agent hit 97.8% accuracy against 79....