Two Drunk Accountants

This week Dan chats with Jason Staats an accountant in the USA about what it's like being an accountant in America compared to Australia. 

This week Dan is still without his ride or die Tim but filling in this week is Jack Dixon of Back Beach Accounting. This week Dan and Jack chat about Lifestyle accounting and revisiting what this actually means for working with your accountant. 

This week the man on the street himself comes onto the podcast. Thats right Michael Orford from HealthPoint Physiotherapy chats with Dan about how to prevent a sore neck and back from sitting at a desk all day. We chat about preventative measures and some simple tricks to help avoid the dreaded sore neck. 

This week your number one accounting app hype girl Heather Smith joins Dan to chat about what apps can help you better communicate with your clients! 

This week we are brewing another business! This time with the founder of LEP Digital, Laura Prael! Laura discusses the challenges of managing a team for the first time, switching to a 4 day work week and some of the hurdles she has experienced along the way! 

We celebrate our 200th episode live! We conduct a whisky sour lesson, Mike Mortlock from Geared for Growth and MCG Quantity Surveyors drops by, we get the man on the street's opinion on the economy and tax deductible golf, we listen to audio tributes and we laugh and talk nonsense. If thats the kind of thing you are into, you will love this episode. Thanks for listening everyone!

A quick update from last nights budget. What should you know? What did we think? We discuss it all. 

This week we chat to friend of the podcast Leon Black from Anspired about what the recent Optus data breach has showed us, how frequent these kind of things actually happen and what you as a small business can do about it. 

This week we chat to Trevor Satour about what small business should know about the upcoming referendum and how to stay informed. 

This week we do a book nuggets on Deep Work by Cal Newport! We gleaned a lot out of this book so have a listen and see how you can drain the shallows from your life!

In our final episode live from Xerocon we chat with Luis Sanchez the EGM of Practice Management and Leigh O'Neill the EGM of Financial Services at Xero to hear whats happening at Xero and what we can look forward to in the coming years!

Are you a small business owner? Than this one is for you! Dan, Tim and Bec discuss everything we learned for small businesses at Xerocon! We also interview the folks at Cogo and Service M8! 

If your an accountant or bookkeeper this episode is for you! This week Dan, Tim and Bec recap what we learned about the industry at xerocon! We discuss what we took away about things happening in our industry and what cool apps we found. This week also features interviews from David Watson the Co-Founder of Fathom, Theo Mitsinikos from Dashboard Insights, friend of the podcast Heather Smith and get the word on the ground from punter Holly!

We recap Xerocon day one and give our top 5 things from the day! 

This week we discuss our tips when attending networking events and also have a chat about what you can expect from us over xerocon!

This week we chat to Sam Petrusma, Co-Founder of Advantage Agency (the people who built our fancy new website by the way) about all things marketing. Its often misunderstood what marketing even is! So we talk to Sam about this and about how to get the most out of your relationship with a marketing agency and how to do marketing better.

This week we tackle non-commercial loss rules and how they might relate to your business or side hussle!

This week we brew a business with Sam Trayhurn the founder of Chuffed Skates. We talk about building communities, what it like designing a product for the first time and all the road bumps she has faced as her business has grown. 

This week we dive into the whether or not you pay tax on your home when you sell it! We also tackle the difficult question of biscuit vs cookie. 

This week we go through some recent changes to trust distributions and what you can do with them, specifically this week we chat about  the ATO's interpretation to section 100a and distributing income to family.