Episodes

Sept. 29, 2016

Keynote by SAGE" The Firm of the Now with Ray Barlow

Live Broadcast at the The IPBC IGNITE Conference.IPBC IGNITE is the Business Advisor education event of the year! You will have access to experts and thought leaders in key areas of professional business practices that will i...
Sept. 29, 2016

Keynote by INTUIT: Automated Data Entry and the Bookkeeping Industry with Scott Zandbergen

Live Broadcast at the The IPBC IGNITE Conference.IPBC IGNITE is the Business Advisor education event of the year! You will have access to experts and thought leaders in key areas of professional business practices that will i...
Sept. 28, 2016

Intuit Presents The Firm of the Future Digital Toolbox with Bryan Tritt and Leandro Dumloa Part2

Live Broadcast at the The IPBC IGNITE Conference. IPBC IGNITE is the Business Advisor education event of the year! You will have access to experts and thought leaders in key areas of professional business practices that will ...
Sept. 28, 2016

Intuit Presents The Firm of the Future Digital Toolbox with Bryan Tritt and Leandro Dumloa Part1

Live Broadcast at the The IPBC IGNITE Conference. IPBC IGNITE is the Business Advisor education event of the year! You will have access to experts and thought leaders in key areas of professional business practices that will ...
Sept. 28, 2016

Sage Presents Zen and the Art of Consulting with Ed Kless Part2

Live Broadcast at the The IPBC IGNITE Conference. IPBC IGNITE is the Business Advisor education event of the year! You will have access to experts and thought leaders in key areas of professional business practices that will ...
Sept. 28, 2016

Sage Presents Zen and the Art of Consulting with Ed Kless Part1

Live Broadcast at the The IPBC IGNITE Conference. IPBC IGNITE is the Business Advisor education event of the year! You will have access to experts and thought leaders in key areas of professional business practices that will ...
Sept. 23, 2016

How to Use Key Predictive Indicators

In the sixteenth century, a new word appeared in English dictionaries: pantometry, which means universal measurement. Ever since, humans have been obsessed with counting things, from people to the amount of cars imported and ...
Sept. 16, 2016

Trashing the Timesheet

Hourly billing and timesheets are inextricably linked: you cannot discuss one without the other. The reason is because both use a common measuring device: Time. There are four primary defenses of timesheets: 1. They are a pri...
Sept. 9, 2016

The True Professional Ideal

What qualifies as a 'profession'? What does it mean to be a “professional.” The term profession comes from the Latin noun professio, which is derived from the past participle professus, or the verb profiteri, denoting “to dec...
Aug. 26, 2016

Free-Rider Friday

The last Friday of every month Ed and Ron will do “Free-Rider Friday.” Most of our shows are “topic” driven, where we dive deep into one subject. Free-Rider Fridays are designed to be “event” driven, whatever issues are in th...
Aug. 19, 2016

Interview with Professor Steven Landsburg

This week Ron and Ed are thrilled to have Steven E. Landsburg, professor of Economics at the University of Rochester, where students recently elected him Professor of the Year. He is the author of The Armchair Economist, Fair...
Aug. 12, 2016

The Eight Myths of Capitalism

Ed and Ron will discuss the eight myths of capitalism as explained in Jay Richard's 2009 book, Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem. Richard's book is in the pantheon of literature that of...
Aug. 5, 2016

Interview with Greg LaFollette, CPA, CITP, CGMA

Ed and Ron will interview Greg LaFollette, CPA. Greg will give us his take on the future of the accounting profession, as well as the Richard and Daniel Susskind book, The Future of the Professions -see our show from January ...
July 29, 2016

Free-Rider Friday

The last Friday of every month Ed and Ron will do 'Free-Rider Friday': Most of our shows are 'topic' driven, where we dive deep into one subject. Free-Rider Fridays are designed to be 'event' driven, whatever issues are in th...
July 22, 2016

Interview with David Barrett, CEO, Expensify

Expensify does expense reports that don't suck! by importing expenses and receipts from your credit cards and mobile phones, submitting expense reports through email, and reimbursing everything online. It has raised over $6M ...
July 15, 2016

Interview with Baruch Lev: The End of Accounting

Accounting statements are like bikinis: “What they show is interesting, but what they conceal is significant.” According to Baruch Lev and Feng Gu, in their new book, The End of Accounting, “Today’s financial reports provide ...
July 8, 2016

Episode 100 Celebration!

Welcome to the 100th Episode of The Soul of Enterprise: Business in the Knowledge Economy, which first aired on July 4, 2014. Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible: Our listeners, our sponsors, callers, and the enti...
July 1, 2016

Interview with Doug Sleeter, Part II

The Blockchain has been labeled “The Trust Protocol,” by Don and Alex Tapscott in their book, Blockchain Revolution. Other labels include, the World Wide Ledger of value, and a public (distributed) ledger, or distributed (dec...
June 24, 2016

Free-Rider Friday

The last Friday of every month Ed and Ron will do “Free-Rider Friday.” Most of our shows are “topic” driven, where we dive deep into one subject. Free-Rider Fridays are designed to be “event” driven, whatever issues are in th...
June 17, 2016

VeraSage Laws, Part II

Over the years, many fellows at VeraSage Institute have coined various laws, such as Baker's Law: Bad customers drive out good customers. Our show on July 24, 2015 dealt with some of these laws. In this show, Ed and Ron will ...
June 10, 2016

Interview with Doug Sleeter

This week Ron and Ed interview Doug Sleeter, founder of the Sleeter Group and self professed blockchain obsessed entrepreneur. As founder of The Sleeter Group, Doug created a national group of accounting software consultants ...
June 3, 2016

A Check for Everyone: The Basic Income Idea

According to Wikipedia, an unconditional basic income is a form of social security system in which all citizens or residents of a country regularly receive an unconditional sum of money
May 27, 2016

Free-Rider Friday

The last Friday of every month Ed and Ron will do “Free-Rider Friday.” Most of our shows are “topic” driven, where we dive deep into one subject. Free-Rider Fridays are designed to be “event” driven, whatever issues are in th...
May 20, 2016

Creating and Pricing Customers Choices

How you charge is often more important than how much you charge. And one fact is irrefutable: Customers love choice. What we’re willing to pay for something is insanely dependent upon what we compare it to. Offering three cho...