In the age of FAKE NEWS, brave souls are needed to fight through the noise and give accountants in practice the support and information they deserve.
David Boyar and Paul Meissner share a passion for the role Accountants play in the Australian economy. As the engine room of the economy, small - medium businesses rely on their accountant for technical knowledge, business acumen and professional (and often personal) support. As the way accountants work (through technology) and service (through new services like Virtual CFOs) changes, we have to ask If accountants are helping their client’s, who is helping Accountants?
If you read the Accounting Industry news and listen to the industry leaders then the Accounting industry is at war. It’s a war against technology, the ATO and even UBER (apparently). The problem is that most of the leaders have never worked in practice. They are subject matter experts but can't offer the perspective of someone who had to actually have conversations with clients about implementing technology, actually moved to value pricing, actually compared technology features and how an entire team may be impacted by them.
Each week in this podcast, 2 plucky Chartered Accountants will bring you the real stories ‘from the trenches’. This no holes barred, feisty, yet humorous take on the Accounting landscape will be entertaining while sending a message to the scaremongers, that the FAKE NEWS must end. By following a simple podcast formula, David and Paul will deliver rapid value straight to your earphones. With segments like ‘best and worst of the week’, ‘Fake News exposed’ and a the rapid format ‘5 questions in 5 minutes’ special guest interviews, what more could you want. This podcast won’t be for the faint hearted.
https://www.fromthetrenches.com.au/
1. Xerocon 2025 | Where the Sun Shines | The AI Race
Who knows what the future of From the Trenches is? Not us. But when Dave posted about a Xerocon Trenches recording it performed better than other linked in posts actual thought went into.
BEST ON GROUND
Paul Meisner
Xero Bank Rec AI automation - biggest update since Find and Recode
OpenAI integration into Xero ecosystem - Xero might catch up to the Access Groups Evo AI but either way, the race for the AI Kingdom is on
The people - face-to-face networking away from online negativity
David Boyar
Paul Meisner the men's health role model
Expecting a big ROI
Quality of content - sessions packed, people wanting solutions ahead of activations
Industry positivity - stark contrast to toxic online communities that make you feel the sky is turning into flowing lava
WORST ON GROUND
Paul Meisner
Professional bodies completely absent - CPA, CA, IPA nowhere to be seen at 3,500 person event
Welcome to Country interrupted for product pitch
David Boyar
Less "woke agenda" = more product focus (actually good)
CEO compensation optics but loved the confident "double down"
From Dave
"The online accounting world has become incredibly negative... but they're smiling, they're wearing shorts, having a great year, but here, Accounting has sun shining on it at the moment"
From Paul
"Industry bodies, where the bloody hell are you? 3,500 of the accounting and bookkeeping community in one room and you can't even show up"
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22 Nov 2024
1. "It's pretty Epic"
Dave and Paul discuss the finalised agenda, AI innovations from The Access Group, and the last-minute ticket sale for the content-rich accounting event.
18 Feb 2024
1. Can CA regulate the profession? | MYOB's ripper new add | The biggest innovation in 10 years
As Statler said to Waldorf, the witty old blokes in the VIP box on the Muppet show;
“There’s a lot to be said about this program.”
To which Waldorf quipped back;
“Too bad you can’t say it on a family show!” The bothed harrumphed and probably cut to a clip of Kermit trying to get animal ready for his next scene.
And in the spirit of that nostalgia Trenches starts it's 8th year.
Paul and David say a huge THANK YOU for investing some of your time listening to us.
Because of you we are earn the meaningless perk of being ranked in the top 20% most listened to podcast on earth.
Not bad for a show about real life in the accounting industry.
Best on Ground
David
CAANZs budget submission covers everything - but will Canberra listen? - CAs influence has to be at a weak point https://www.charteredaccountantsanz.com/news-and-analysis/advocacy/policy-submissions/pre-budget-submission-2023-24 (https://www.charteredaccountantsanz.com/news-and-analysis/advocacy/policy-submissions/pre-budget-submission-2023-24)
Karbons payments product was bigger than expected https://karbonhq.com/feature/billing-and-payments/ (https://karbonhq.com/feature/billing-and-payments/)
Fox Sports - Stick to highlights of the 2016 and 2023 Grand Finals, leave the balance sheets to us https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7163833930805096449/ (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7163833930805096449/)
Paul
Paul hit the ChangeGPS National tour to see the launch of Protect - David calls it the biggest innovation in accounting in a decade https://changegps.com.au/apps/protect (https://changegps.com.au/apps/protect)
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE - David did not ask Paul to cover this, in fact David has begged Paul to talk about ChangeGPS in the past and he has said no. The comments in the show are 100000% because Paul chose to share them.
MYOB lampoons instant invoicing in the best way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVzPKz_Uz2M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVzPKz_Uz2M)
Worst on Ground
Paul
Flexible Hours will suffer thanks to the right to switch off https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/business-fights-back-against-right-to-disconnect-from-work-20231220-p5esol#:~:text=%E2%80%9CA%20legislated%20right%20to%20disconnect,are%20unreasonable%2C%E2%80%9D%20she%20said (https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/business-fights-back-against-right-to-disconnect-from-work-20231220-p5esol#:~:text=%E2%80%9CA%20legislated%20right%20to%20disconnect,are%20unreasonable%2C%E2%80%9D%20she%20said).
Agent Linking- David completely misunderstood the issue but Paul was in the room when it was workshopped….what actually happened is worse.
Ethics and the insane tokens accountants need to jump through as CA clings to a belief it can regulate the profession. Pledges, dobbing in peers increased ethics training.
David
Media reports of 150 ATO agents linked to tik tok GST fraud is good ol fashioned clickbait
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