Episodes

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 ignite your business, your employees, and your life! Our conference is a unique opportunity to collaborate, network and educate yourself in the most critical aspects of your professional practice. You will learn crucial insights in tax, software, technology and best business ...

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 ignite your business, your employees, and your life! Our conference is a unique opportunity to collaborate, network and educate yourself in the most critical aspects of your professional practice. You will learn crucial insights in tax, software, technology and best business...

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 ignite your business, your employees, and your life! Our conference is a unique opportunity to collaborate, network and educate yourself in the most critical aspects of your professional practice. You will learn crucial insights in tax, software, technology and best business...

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 ignite your business, your employees, and your life! Our conference is a unique opportunity to collaborate, network and educate yourself in the most critical aspects of your professional practice. You will learn crucial insights in tax, software, technology and best business...

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 ignite your business, your employees, and your life! Our conference is a unique opportunity to collaborate, network and educate yourself in the most critical aspects of your professional practice. You will learn crucial insights in tax, software, technology and best business...

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 the number of McDonald’s hamburgers served. The problem for the pantometrists is the same one facing businesspeople today: what should be measured? Facts and figures do not provide a context, or reveal truth: we still need our imaginations and creativity. If everything impor...

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 pricing tool: 2. They are a cost accounting tool: 3. They are a project management tool: and 4. They measure the productivity of our professionals. Logic teaches us that if time is the incorrect measure of external value, then timesheets are the wrong measuring device for inter...

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 declare publicly, own freely, acknowledge, avow.” Professionals are said to “profess” something, they stand for something. The noun professional didn’t appear in American dictionaries until 1861. In the 18th and 19th centuries 'professions' referred to theology, law, medicine, ...

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 the news that we -or you- find worthy of commentary. In economics, free riding means reaping the benefits from the actions of others and consequently refusing to bear the full costs of those actions. This means Ed and Ron will free ride off of the news, and each other, with no...

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 Play, More Sex is Safer Sex, The Big Questions, two textbooks in economics, a forthcoming textbook on general relativity and cosmology, and over 30 journal articles in mathematics, economics and philosophy. His current research is in the area of quantum game theory. He writ...

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 offers a moral argument for capitalism, along with the work of George Gilder, Michael Novak, Father Robert Sirico, Deirdre McCloskey, and Rabbi Daniel Lapin, and others. Join Ed and Ron as they shatter the idea of Utopia, Greed, Zero-sum thinking.

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 8, 2016, interview with Daniel Susskind-, cloud accounting, transitioning to higher value advisory services, among other topics.

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 the news that we -or you- find worthy of commentary. In economics, free riding means reaping the benefits from the actions of others and consequently refusing to bear the full costs of those actions. This means Ed and Ron will free ride off of the news, and each other, with no...

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 in venture funding, has hundreds of thousands of users, has won awards aplenty, and is basically taking the small-business expense reporting space by storm. Ed and Ron will discuss the state of the accounting profession, cloud and app technology, what it’s like to found a co...

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 a trifling 5-6 percent of the information relevant to, and used by, investors.” Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and traditional financial statements are suffering from what philosophers call a deteriorating paradigm: the theory gets more and more complex to account ...

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 entire Team at VoiceAmerica who run a professional organization. Ron and Ed will look back on some of our 30 guests, our memorable show topics, and a discussion on the Brexit vote and more on blockchain technology.

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 (decentralized) database. The Economist labeled Blockchain “The Trust Machine. Trust the math, not the people (“in math we trust”). Either way, Blockchain is a Meta Technology, that is, it affects other technologies. Ron and Ed have a follow-up conversation with Doug Sleeter and...

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 the news that we (or you) find worthy of commentary. In economics, free riding means reaping the benefits from the actions of others and consequently refusing to bear the full costs of those actions. This means Ed and Ron will free ride off of the news, and each other, with no...

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 explore even more VeraSage Laws.

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 who serve small and medium-sized businesses. He is the author of several books including the QuickBooks Consultant's Reference Guide, and the leading market college textbooks QuickBooks Fundamentals and QuickBooks Complete.

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

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 the news that we (or you) find worthy of commentary. In economics, free riding means reaping the benefits from the actions of others and consequently refusing to bear the full costs of those actions. This means Ed and Ron will free ride off of the news, and each other, with no...

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 choices to the customer puts your product in context. It’s why most businesses offer three of everything: small, medium, large, coach, business, and first-class, Tall, Grande, Venti, etc. This is a ubiquitous strategy because it comports with how human beings make choices and b...

Thousands of business books are published each year. Some are worthless, others have merit, fewer still have lasting value, but a handful possess the ability to transform your business (and possibly, your life). Yet with today’s busy and demanding schedules, do you feel you don’t devote enough time to reading and absorbing new ideas? Then this show is for you. Ed and Ron will explore the best business books ever written, summarizing their favorite all-time business books. If you want to share yo...