Season 6
Xero Tax Errors, OpenAI Roll-Ups and Active Accounts Production | Be In The Loop
Eriona Bajrakurtaj, Alastair Barlow and John Toon go through the accounting tech week, and most of it comes back to the same question: is the thing being announced the thing that actually works? The headline everyone shared was OpenAI buying accounting firms. It has not. OpenAI took an equity positi...
The big AI companies do not use AI to do their own accounts. So why should you?
Indi Tatla is joined by Lara Manton and Billie McLoughlin for a run through the month’s accounting tech updates, most of which nobody would call exciting and all of which somebody will end up using. Two from Xero. The bills page gets the same full-page treatment invoices and quotes already had, 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 Accrual World, host Indi is joined by global accounting-tech heavyweights Heather Smith (dialling in from a beautiful corner of the UK Cotswolds) and With Kendrick Hair Chief Evangelist at Fishbowl (live from the US). Together, the team tears down the massive wave of...
What HMRC's timely payments plan, Peppol e-invoicing and AI audit tools mean for your firm || In the Loop
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...