Digi-Tools In Accrual World
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Episodes
Indi Tatla, Lara Manton and Robbie White on a week where almost every story turned out to be about payments.
Intuit has taken its QuickBooks connectors in Claude and ChatGPT past read-only, so a business owner can raise and send an invoice from inside a chat window. Robbie calls t...
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 differen...
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 U...
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 s...
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 announcements out of Xerocon London and digs into the platform's aggressive structural shift under CEO Sukinder Singh Cassidy.
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 people it lands on what they actually made of it.
The centrepiece is our interview with Kate Haywood, MD of Xero UK. We put it to her strai...
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 an...
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 vets...
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 79.1...
ohn Toon, Eriona Bajrakurtaj, and Leigh Stallard cover FYI's first AI features, two separate Xero conversations, BrightPay Oscar, Sodium, Record OS and the Maple Review. FYI has added its first AI features, built around the existing automation layer rather than added on top as a chatbot. Firms that have properly embedded the product will benefit most. It runs on AWS Bedrock, which doesn't retain data or train models, which t...
Indi and Ryan are joined by Kevin Fitzgerald covering VAT workflow improvements, AI payroll onboarding, the month-end close race, and a blunt conversation about why most accounting professionals still are not using AI at all.
FreeAgent has shipped VAT return improvements timed to the April 2026 MTD r...
Ryan Pearcy and Indi Tatla cover a big week in accounting tech, from Starling's contested MTD launch to Intuit cutting 3,000 jobs and Xero's push to own the workflow layer.
Starling Bank launched Accounting Essentials in March, a free bookkeeping and MTD submission tool fo...
Indi Tatla, Ryan Pearcy and guest host Alastair Barlow are in the chair this week, with John Toon taking the week off. The episode opens fresh from Accountex, comparing notes on the talks, the vendors and what the arrival of a dedicated FD show on the floor might mean for the direction of the market.
Leigh Stallard is joined by Lara Manton and Robbie White for a packed episode recorded in the wake of Accountex 2026. Between them they cover eight stories spanning practice management, bookkeeping automation, MTD, AI strategy and the long-running question of what an accountant is actually for.
Indi and John are joined by Kendrick from Fishbowl, inventory and manufacturing software for businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets but aren't ready for a full ERP. Kendrick brings a US perspective to a week dominated by AI agent launches, a major tax authority investment and a string of Sage announcements.
Ryan Pearcy is joined by Eriona Bajrakurtaj from Majors Accountants and Ian Gregory, CTO of Advancetrack, for a week dominated by Intuit news, a quietly significant iplicit release and a pointed question about who controls your data as AI agents become the new interface for everything.
Ryan Pearcy, Indi Tatla and John Toon are back together covering QuickBooks updates, a significant Active Workpapers release, and two AI stories worth your attention.
QuickBooks has restructured its payroll offering into three tiers: Core for simple automated salary runs, ...
Indi is joined by Billie Mcloughlin and Kevin Fitzgerald for a busy episode covering AI's move into tax preparation, Xero's repositioning as an operating system, and a string of practical product updates across the accounting tech stack.
Indi opens with news of Advancetrac...
Ryan Pearcy, Heather Smith and Leigh Stallard return for Season 3 of Digi-Tools in Accrual World, covering the biggest stories in accounting tech this week.
Xero has launched a new accounts production workflow in partnership with BGL, bringing year-end workpapers directly ...
In this episode of Digi-Tools in Accrual World, Indi Tatla and John Toon welcome a brand new regular co-host to the show, Alastair Barlow. The team covers a wide range of #accounting tech news and #fintech news, starting with the latest update from Dext and their new Time Spent module. They discuss the value of heat maps for process optimisation and whether these data points provide enough context for firm owners to make meaningful...
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