Ep. 84: Puzzle Pivots?, EY Gives Bonuses for People Skills, and Heather Day & Liz Scott make this an Appy Podcast!

<p>It&#39;s back to school in episode 84! This week, our guests are teaching us a thing or two about being radiant podcast personalities, finance apps, and Matt Damon. Your hosts are as always:</p><p>Tyler “Substitute Teacher” Otto from <a href="https://www.specializedat.com/"><u>Specialized Accounting</u></a>, focusing on medium to large businesses in the glamorous hospitality, marina, and service industries.</p><p>Jeremy &quot;Dumbfounded Student” Van Groll from <a href="https://www.nonprofitbookkeeping.com/"><u>Nonprofit Bookkeeping</u></a>, a champion for nonprofits with his accounting expertise.</p><p><br></p><p>We are joined by significantly more talented hosts of the podcast <a href="https://www.theappyhour.com/"><u>The ‘Appy Hour</u></a>: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/heathersatterley/"><u>Heather Day</u></a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizscottqbo"><u>Liz Scott</u></a>.</p><p><strong>In Da News</strong>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/ey-to-give-out-100m-in-bonuses-for-human-abilities-7553948/"><u>“human” abilities</u></a> are the hottest asset and <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/accrual-acquire-puzzle-expanding-ai-140000780.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEmieLEIYZ1TkV6pelcnnvFcQ6z5zJEuZEqEj-HEi4lPltrjJYW8-ui5csnEa_2pyyFIn_v11RzO1Qq0Hy4ItIcGhYu_A3yBaGr7fTs562toh8j24Iw1Ck6G5lF8Ig_sfrX_tfOI78vW6f2iYxaL_0o1GiVGZaS0CNxQtHoEw5KU"><u>Puzzle has some puzzling news</u></a>.</p><p><strong>I&#39;m Not Appy About It! </strong>In this game, our esteemed guests wager how many examples of a topic they can name, and then they must name them. We wouldn’t be ‘appy about it either!</p><p>It’s <strong>App Snack!</strong> And what better than to discuss <a href="https://www.theappyhour.com/"><u>The ‘Appy Hour</u></a>? The ‘Appy Hour is a bi-weekly webinar where Heather and Liz merge the world of accounting apps and technology within the accounting industry through Happy Hour drinks.</p><p><br></p><p>In <strong>Fast Figures</strong>, Tyler is in the hot seat to answer these<em> jeopardizing</em> trivia questions with numerical answers.<br></p><p><strong>Loser of the Week: </strong><a href="https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/four-state-cpa-societies-form-five-storm-systems"><u>These CPA Societies</u></a><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Winner of the Week: </strong><a href="https://www.intuit.com/blog/innovative-thinking/best-ai-accounting-software-tools/"><u>QBO</u></a></p><p><br></p><p>P.S. <a href="https://www.unaccountable.co/fortnightly-accounting-trivia"><u>Don’t forget about UFAT</u></a>, our fortnightly trivia series with awesome prizes (thanks, Double!).  <a href="https://www.unaccountable.co/fortnightly-accounting-trivia"><u>Click here for more info</u></a>! 12:00 pm MT / 2:00 pm ET</p><p><br></p><p>___________________________________</p><p>📣 What if the time-consuming parts of accounting just... handled themselves?</p><p>That&#39;s the idea behind Stack by Ramp: an AI-native platform that lets you deploy agents to do the repetitive work. Reconciliations, journal entries, flux analysis. Your processes, your rules, your clients. You decide where it runs on its own and where it stops for your review.</p><p>They&#39;ve got the data to prove it. Ramp evaluated Stack against 200+ real accounting tasks, built and graded by working accountants — and it outpaces the general-purpose models.</p><p>Start your free 3-month trial at <a href="http://ramp.com/unaccountable"><u>Ramp.com/unaccountable</u></a>!</p><p><br></p><p>_________________________________________</p><p>🆓 Love free stuff? So do we!<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@UnAccountable_Podcast"> <u>⁠Subscribe to our channel and watch for $0 on YouTube!⁠</u></a></p><p>🎧 For more accounting podcast entertainment, news, and tips,<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4HRWi6kfw9NPMJMXf9c77Z"> <u>⁠subscribe to UnAccountable⁠</u></a>. </p><p>⭐ Enjoying the show? Leave us y