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Pleased to be in Orlando for CCH Connections this year.  Looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones.
10/26/2026

Pleased to be in Orlando for CCH Connections this year. Looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones.

10/21/2026

All I want for Christmas is MCP servers.

I've learned in the last few weeks about the Digits WRITE MCP access, the Pilot MCP's for QBO and Xero, and many more at CPA Practice Advisor . Folks, this is where the rubber meets the road on AI - MCP is a machine to machine connection to facilitate the AI engine asking questions and the related application/server providing the responsive data. It is the Rosetta Stone.
Truly, we live in interesting times.

https://starter.meridian.pilot.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=Zoho+Social

NEW PODCAST EPISODE: ATL278 — "Covered-ish: Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and the AI Liability Question". Four ma...
10/09/2026

NEW PODCAST EPISODE: ATL278 — "Covered-ish: Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and the AI Liability Question". Four major AI vendors, different contractual promises, and one crucial question: Who owns the risk?

Available NOW at https://cpate.ch/278?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=Zoho+Social

Artificial intelligence is transforming accounting workflows, but w...

What can technology M&A tell us about the future? Quite a bit. AI routers. Agents. Edge AI. Data platforms. Coding tools...
10/06/2026

What can technology M&A tell us about the future? Quite a bit. AI routers. Agents. Edge AI. Data platforms. Coding tools. First-party data. Follow the money in ATL277: Technology Mergers and Acquisitions. Watch here=> https://cpate.ch/277

One of the biggest risks of software consolidation isn't necessarily that your application disappears tomorrow. It may s...
10/03/2026

One of the biggest risks of software consolidation isn't necessarily that your application disappears tomorrow. It may simply become financially unavailable after years of price increases. That's why we recommend revisiting contingency plans after an acquisition. Learn about how tech M&A is shaping the future of all professions and the components of your next technology stack in ATL277, Technology Mergers & Acquisitions at https://cpate.ch/277.

Salesforce + Fin. NVIDIA + Hugging Face. SpaceX + Cursor. Stripe + OpenRouter. These aren't random deals. They're strate...
10/02/2026

Salesforce + Fin. NVIDIA + Hugging Face. SpaceX + Cursor. Stripe + OpenRouter. These aren't random deals. They're strategic bets on where AI is going next. Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley connect the dots on ATL277: Technology Mergers and Acquisitions.

ATL272- The Gathering Storm is a warning about a significant change in the op tempo of cybercriminals and how AI is chan...
10/01/2026

ATL272- The Gathering Storm is a warning about a significant change in the op tempo of cybercriminals and how AI is changing the security, not a prediction of doom. Over 900 vulnerabilities were patched in September’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday, up from an average of 90-100 per month in 2024. Delaying software updates is riskier than ever in this environment.
Use the time you have now to harden, patch, rehearse, test, inventory, and govern. Listen now https://cpate.ch/272 Accounting Technology Lab.

Your software vendor just got acquired. Now what? In ATL277, Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley look beyond the M&A hea...
09/30/2026

Your software vendor just got acquired. Now what? In ATL277, Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley look beyond the M&A headlines to the questions accounting firms should be asking about pricing, product roadmaps, integrations, security, and contingency plans.
Coming this Friday at noon ET at https://cpate.ch/277 or at https://cpapracticeadvisor.com/podcasts

What happens when you give eleven AI agents jobs, personalities, responsibilities—and enough autonomy to expose everythi...
09/26/2026

What happens when you give eleven AI agents jobs, personalities, responsibilities—and enough autonomy to expose everything that can go brilliantly right and spectacularly wrong?

I’m particularly proud of this ATL episode, which explores learnings from a particularly interesting project- a completely virtual accounting firm with one human and eleven agents.

Watch here: https://cpate.ch/276

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In ATL276, Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley sit down with Alexis Kingsbury, author of Accrual Intentions, to unpack what he learned from building a deliberately extreme experiment: an accountancy practice staffed by eleven AI agents with their own roles, personalities, and responsibilities. Kingsbury explains that the project began as part parody and part management-science experiment, but quickly became a practical test of delegation, workflow design, controls, and human judgment.

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