We've Got No Goodwill for Goodwill & the Pentagon Sucks at Accounting

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Show Notes

• 02:20 – Blake gets his nerd on in the hunt for the true meaning of goodwill
• 04:40 – Google hopes you won't pay attention to its new search results format | The Verge
• 06:47 – Reviews and feedback!  Thank you! 
• 07:31 – Our in-depth discussion of the four-day workweek is here
• 07:41 – How to stop serial meeting holders in their tracks – charge them for every meeting they schedule! | Bloomberg
• 09:42 – Donny takes us to task on our discussion of RPAs in the Predictions episode 
• 10:34 – More on the Gartner definition of RPA | Gartner.com
• 13:24 – Divided we accountants fall over the definition of goodwill | WSJ
• 14:38 – Some more insight on goodwill from Calcbench | Calcbench
• 25:13 – Why train your staff online when you can build a $450M campus like KPMG? | Bloomberg Tax
• 26:55 – More new accounting standards equals ever-rising audit fees | Accounting Today
• 28:17 – What you need to know about tax-zapper software! | AccountingWEB
  • More info on the zappers here | Wikipedia
• 29:17 – Grounded for life – Former WF CEO gets the boot from banking | CFO
• 31:00 – Seeing red – Cachet files for Chapter 11 | Albany Business Review
  •  If you missed it, here's our discussion with Cachet's General Counsel last year
• 32:08 – $35 TRILLION worth of stupid accounting tricks | Bloomberg
• 35:38 – Is the Big Easy just a Big Target for hackers? | PYMNTS
• 36:57 – Totally tubular, man! Everything you ever needed to know about pneumatic tubes | Pneumatic.Tube 
• 38:00 – The Digital Dollar Projects gets us one step closer to Fed-backed cryptocurrency | CFO 
• 39:18 – Pass the bucks - China's testing out its own digital dollar | NPR 
• 40:20 – Have phone, will vote? King County thinks so | WSJ
• 43:52 – Maybe it's not Mint to be | Fast Company
• 47:00 – Mint might not be your thing, but You really Need a Budget | YNAB 
• 49:20 – Tax prep jitters? Not according to this survey | Finance Buzz
• 50:55 – VCs are placing some pretty high bets on B2B fintechs | PYMNTS
• 51:45 – Ceterus, playing the accounting firm with engineers games, rakes in a total of $30M | The Post and Courier
• 52:31 – According to Glassdoor, you need to become an accounting manager | Going Concern
• 53:41 – Need to beef up your firm's password management? Check out this guide | Tom's Guide

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