Over 6 Million Small Businesses Using Cloud Accounting: QuickBooks and Xero Numbers Compared

Thank you to this week’s sponsor! This episode of the Cloud Accounting Podcast is sponsored by Xero. Did you miss the Xero Roadshow when it came to your city? You can still attend a Xero Roadshow Online ! You’ll learn how your practice can benefit from the full power of the Xero Platform and earn CPE credit. Register here . Show Notes 03:06 -- High schoolers get certified in QuickBooks... Desktop? Noooo! | Twitter 04:24 -- Glendale man admits to embezzling $2.8-million and filing fake tax returns | CPA Practice Advisor 08:17 -- TurboTax Uses A “Military Discount” to Trick Troops Into Paying to File Their Taxes | ProPublica 09:56 -- Senator Warren Leads Colleagues Questioning Intuit's Deceptive Practices That Led Low- and Middle-Income Taxpayers to Pay Unnecessary Fees | Elizabeth Warren 11:53 -- Intuit Corp (INTU) Q3 2019 Earnings Call Transcript | The Motley Fool 17:32 -- Update on QuickBooks Live with Intuit's Rich Preece | QBO Show 24:32 -- Investor Briefing: Full year results to 31 March 2019 | Xero 26:53 -- Quarterly Report | Intuit 28:32 -- Xero's CEO says it still has a cautious future in the US | Scoop News 32:56 -- Public Statement - Network and Service Interruptions | Wolters Kluwer (34:54) Hackers have been holding the city of Baltimore’s computers hostage for 2 weeks | Vox 36:13 -- Atlanta Spent $2.6M to recover from a $52,000 ransomware scare | WIRED 38:49 -- SURVEY: 59% Deliver Invoices on Paper | CPA Trendlines 40:22 -- Making Change | Payments, Perspectives and Politics | Square 42:27 -- Zero percent of respondents to an online survey are actively researching or currently implementing blockchain in controllership | Deloitte Controllership Digest 44:58 -- $461,646 in Pay for One Worker: M.T.A. Overtime Scrutinized by Prosecutors | NYTimes 49:45 -- Bill.com launches AI platform for automated payments processing | Venture Beat 52:18 -- Introducing Plaid Direct | Plaid 53:23 -- TransferWise: Europe's Most Valuable FinTech | PYMNTS 53:42 -- Shopify quietly acquired Handshake, an e-commerce platform for B2B wholesale purchasing | TechCrunch Get in Touch Thanks for listening! Follow and tweet @BlakeTOliver and @DavidLeary . Find us on Facebook and, if you like what you hear, do us a favor and write a review on iTunes . Interested in sponsoring the Cloud Accounting Podcast? We have some open sponsorship dates available for the summer season: June 21 through October 4 Then again starting January 10, 2020 We also have some “conference special” sponsorship opportunities available, for example, the week of June 16 we’ll be doing 4 daily “conference crossover” episodes covering Scaling New Heights and Xerocon. For more information, check out the prospectus . Subscribe Apple Podcasts: http://cloudacctpod.link/ApplePodcasts Spotify: http://cloudacctpod.link/Spotify Google Play: http://cloudacctpod.link/GooglePlay Stitcher: http://cloudacctpod.link/Stitcher Overcast: http://cloudacctpod.link/Overcast