Accounting Apps Podcast| formerly Cloud Stories | Accounting Technology

About Accounting Apps Podcast| formerly Cloud Stories | Accounting Technology

Exploring the intersections of accounting, technology and modern practice methodologies. Each month guests share how they built their business and how your business or clients can use technology to be more effective and efficient. This may include exploring: *How you can implement and integrate business tools with your online accounting software to automate processes, improve productivity, and profitability; *How to build a business developing business apps; or *How to build a tech stack that meets your business needs or introduce your clients to them. Brilliant guests include entrepreneurs, founders, business consultants, accountants, bookkeepers, small business owners, cloud advisors, developers, cloud integrators and solution providers. Hosted by Heather Smith, an award winning Chartered Accountant with a flair for storytelling. Heather is obsessed with how effective automation and integration can produce timely clean data, to surface information for brave, fast data-informed ...

Publisher

Heather Smith | Accountant & Storyteller

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Aug 2014

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

82 of 277 episodes have a transcript.

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   7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Why Professional Identity Matters in the Age of AI 🧠

   Host Peter Reynolds interviews accounting expert Jane Doe about how AI reshapes professional identity, emphasizing the enduring importance of judgment and pride in accounting.

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   30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Is AI Making Accountants Less Intelligent?🧠

   Host [Host Name] interviews [Guest Name, Credential] about how AI impacts accountants' intelligence, professional judgment, and the value of cognitive struggle.

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   23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   What Is a Calendar Audit and Why Should You Do One? 📅

   Host [Host Name] interviews [Guest Name, Credential] about how auditing your calendar boosts intentional work by analyzing meeting overload and productive hours.

Inside a recent episode

Why Professional Identity Matters in the Age of AI 🧠

Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Professor Megan Hess. OK, so it's written by this lady. And in this article, she argues that professional identity is linked with ethics, skepticism, and the resistance to pressure. And I do encourage you to jump in and take a look at the article. And she kind of is saying that high professional identity sort of coexists with high personal values and the values and norms of the profession and how It explores how people are proud to be accountants and how, like, you know, in a sort of really simplified atmosphere, if someone asks you what you do, do you say with pride, I'm a chartered accountant, I'm a certified bookkeeper, or do you kind of sort of avoid the question? […]

Who has been a guest on Accounting Apps Podcast| formerly Cloud Stories | Accounting Technology

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Diya Jolly
• Tyler Caskey
• John Munden
• Ben Richmond
• Paul Wittich

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

1,841,080

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 80 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

87

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

89

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