Blake Oliver

You can now earn CPE for my course, "The IRS Is Coming for Crypto: Coinbase’s VP of Tax Explains What Happens Next" on Earmark. Register for free: earmark.app/c/3351

The Accounting Roast: Your Workflow Horror Stories x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Audit opinions are pass/fail. But investors now use AI to generate confidence scores on financial statements. The profession invented the binary opinion because nuance wasn't feasible. Now it is. So why are we still doing it the old way? youtube.com/live/cxPHuRj8I…

PwC is building subscription AI tools that deliver client services with no PwC professional involved. EY just doubled its CPA exam bonus to $10,000. Two of the Big Four. Two completely different bets on where value comes from. youtube.com/live/cxPHuRj8I…

White-collar jobs gone in 18 months? Microsoft's AI CEO thinks so. I don't. It’s not an extinction event. It’s the "Instant Promotion Effect." AI handles the technical heavy lifting so you can focus on judgment and strategy. AI doesn't replace you. It promotes you.

481. Treasury Declares US Insolvent, AI Does Taxes (with Kenji Kuramoto) x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Epstein's accountant, Richard Kahn, told Congress he saw no red flags while managing Epstein's finances for over a decade. Rep. Walkinshaw: "He was willfully ignorant." Full story from CBS News: cbsnews.com/news/richard-k…

You can now earn CPE for my course, "What Private Equity Really Changes Inside an Accounting Firm with Devin Mathews" on Earmark. Register for free: earmark.app/c/3327

480. Fake SOC 2 Reports as a Service & Games for Busy Season x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

479. Baby, Where The Hell Is My Audit? x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Female partners in accounting jumped from 4% in 1989 to 39% today. Huge win? Yes. But women still only make up 26% of lead engagement partners in the S&P 500. In sectors like Energy & Real Estate, it’s <20%. Titles are changing hands, but the biggest clients aren’t.

Is AI helping your firm work faster or is it just noise? Join me & Sasha Orloff (CEO of Puzzle) to see what "AI-powered, human-led" accounting looks like in practice. Learn to scale capacity, maintain control, and earn free CPE. Register: streamyard.com/watch/diUGSBn3…

Aaron Harris, Sage's Global CTO, says AI will make general ledgers more valuable. He may be right. AI depends on clean, structured data. Messy GL = unreliable automation. Good accounting just became more strategic.

U.S. defense is facing a 100-to-1 cost variance: a $30k drone vs. a $3M Patriot missile. War is a resource allocation problem, and right now, we’re seeing "negative operating margins" in deterrence. Read more: blakeoliver.com/blog/accountin…

In the future, the most successful people won't be those who know the answers, but those who know how to ask the right questions.

If an AI agent can complete a partnership tax return autonomously, compliance economics change overnight. Complexity is no longer a moat around revenue growth. So the real question is, if AI can do the work, what is your firm selling? blakeoliver.com/blog/when-ai-c…

Washington State saw a record 2,086 new CPA licenses in 2025 (+16%). A win for the pipeline? Not exactly. 60%+ went to international candidates. Only 25% of new licensees actually live in WA. Is the shortage actually easing, or are we just globalizing the credential?

You can now earn CPE for my course, "The Best & Worst Firms in Accounting with Dom Piscopo" on Earmark. Register for free: earmark.app/c/3290

Trust in AI for tax prep is actually going down, not up. Only 37% of Americans would consider using AI to file their taxes this year, down from 43% last year. Source: Invoice Home's 2nd annual "U.S. Tax Filing" report.

The SEC is seriously considering letting public companies report financial results just twice a year instead of every quarter. Trump first pushed for this back in 2018 but nothing happened. Now SEC Chairman Paul Atkins has asked his team to prioritize it as a formal rulemaking.