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With the Autumn Budget next week, the team weighs up what's likely, what's needed and what would catch them off guard.

AI-native ledgers are the latest arrivals on the accounting software catwalk, promising to rebuild the general ledger around artificial intelligence. But what’s actually different, and is the profession ready for another revolution? Damon Anderson, founder of the A to Z of AI Accounting Software, joins Tom Herbert to discuss whether the AI-native ledger is a genuinely interesting architectural cha...

As registrations open for FAB 2027, Dhosjan Greenaway-Dalini joins the show to explore how AI is reshaping finance leadership, why technology should follow the business problem, and how the CFO’s role is continuing to expand.

Moving an old process onto software isn't innovation; changing the process itself is. Richard Sergeant of Principle Point tells the AccountingWEB podcast why e-invoicing could deliver what Making Tax Digital only promised.

Inspired by dramas such as Mr Bates vs The Post Office, the team put on their TV producer hats and pitch the accounting stories they think deserve their own TV series.

This week's episode looks at the first MTD quarterly deadline and what the numbers tell us. Special guest Robyn Milstead joins the podcast to discuss the pressure on accountants and concerns over what comes next.

AI may be changing the mechanics of accounting, but the firms best placed to benefit will be those that get the fundamentals right first. That was a central message from a panel at Zoho’s Connected Practice Summit in London, where Taj Accountants founder Abul Nurujjaman, Institute of Certified Bookkeepers (ICB) chief executive Ami Copeland and Zoho vice president Prashant Ganti joined AccountingWE...

On this week’s episode, the team is joined by AJ Chambers managing director James Gosling to discuss Affinia’s acquisition of Wilson Partners and what it could mean for consolidation, private equity and the profession.

Sharon Cooke, technical director at 20:20 Innovation, joins the latest episode of No Accounting for Taste to talk about training in a changing profession, the skills accountants will need and why development should support a firm's wider strategy.

Despite Tom Herbert missing Xerocon, Richard Hattersley was on hand to fill him in – including the big slide and ball pit. He explains how AI dominated the event, with Xero’s Anthropic integration taking centre stage. Herbert discusses the announcements that stood out, Hattersley’s podcast with Xero CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy and signs of growing discontent among users. Hattersley then reflects o...

Live from Xerocon at Olympia, Richard Hattersley sits down with Xero CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy to mark the company's 20th anniversary. Together, they unpack Xero's massive AI announcements, a new mid-market push, and a fascinating experiment where the software giant tried—and failed—to clone itself using AI. In this episode, they discuss: Xero at 20: The journey from a far-fetched New Zealand st...

How can firms ensure technology improves the client experience rather than complicates it and can such a step be taken without affecting that relationship? David Gartside and Luke Farren join The Progressive Firm Podcast to discuss.

The team starts with good news for the Finance, Accounting & Bookkeeping Show, after FAB picked up two event awards. Richard Hattersley reflects on what the wins say about the show and what’s next for FAB 2027. Tom Herbert turns to HMRC’s tax gap figures and asks whether Making Tax Digital for income tax (MTD) is still the right answer. He looks at research from Mazuma founder Lucy Cohen, which su...

No Accounting for Taste ep216: P&L filing from proposal to final form by AccountingWEBUK

Tom Herbert shares his takeaways from Tax Tech Live in London, where the AI conversation felt more grounded. Rather than sweeping claims about revolutionising the profession, the focus was on practical use cases, how teams are using AI now, and what this could mean for training and the profession. Herbert also warns that a pricing crunch may be coming as AI costs rise. Matthew Ord then looks at EY...

Matthew Ord opens the podcast with good news for anyone still working on their Accounting Excellence entry: the deadline has been extended to 3 June. So if you haven’t quite finished your entry or wished you’d have started one, now is the time to get it done. Tom Herbert shares news that Bokio, a cloud accounting system, is pulling the plug on its UK operations on 30 June 2026. He explains what ha...

As Tom Herbert returns from sunny San Francisco, he reflects on his time at Sage Future and the event’s focus on building trust in artificial intelligence (AI). He shares the research from the conference, the push to improve user confidence and the announcements pointing towards a more practical, pragmatic phase of AI adoption. Mathew Ord explores the perception and performance gap facing finance...

Speaking to AccountingWEB technology editor Tom Herbert at Sage Future, Sage’s annual user conference in San Francisco, chief executive Steve Hare argued that artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in accounting will depend less on flashy generative features and more on whether finance teams can inspect, verify and trust the outputs. Hare also addressed the wider market anxiety caused by large AI p...

How does an accounting firm navigate the breakdown of a relationship with a difficult client and what’s the cost of letting such a scenario play out for far too long? Muntazir Bhimji and Natasha Millward join The Progressive Firm Podcast to discuss.

There is just under a month to go until entries for the Accounting Excellence Awards close on 20 May. Matthew Ord shares more on this year’s awards, including the new categories, while Tom Herbert outlines the trends he expects to see in the entries and offers some good advice on what actually makes a good entry. After an Any Answers post criticised AccountingWEB for covering artificial intelligen...

Making Tax Digital (MTD) has finally become a reality, more than a decade after it was first announced. Richard Hattersley reflects on the journey so far, from the highs and lows to where MTD stands today, including the National Audit Office report, confidence levels, costs and how the initiative has changed. The team also argues that the real crunch point is not 6 April, but the first filing dead...

While MTD and AI dominated the chatter at the Finance, Accounting and Bookkeeping Show, one theme kept surfacing above the noise: accountants are still searching for software that solves real problems rather than just adding another shiny layer of complexity. This was the broad verdict from Hancock and Hastings director Amy Hancock and AAG managing director Aaron Patrick, who joined AccountingWEB’...

How can a firm broadening their horizons improve a relationship with a client? Aaron Patrick and Eriona Bajrakurtaj join The Progressive Firm Podcast to discuss the journey of introducing a new service line and knowing when the time is right.

Tom Herbert opens the podcast with two tech stories from Companies House and HMRC. First, he unpacks a security flaw at Companies House that left confidential details linked to more than five million companies exposed, explaining what happened, how Companies House responded and how serious the breach was. He then turns to HMRC’s decision to reintroduce multi-factor authentication for agents from J...

In the latest episode of our Inside the Numbers podcast – which pulls back the curtain on the KPIs of finance leaders – Chris Sharp of Intercity Technology sees out series one with the three main metrics that help him navigate his work, as well as discussing his non-traditional route into the profession and the need to be able to tell a story with data.