Two Drunk Accountants

Did you know small business owners experience lower wellbeing ratings than the general population? We chat to Will Buckley the Country Manager Australia for Xero about the recent report on the Global State of Small Business Owner Wellbeing. 

This week we chat about improving your leadership skills with Brendan Rogers! Brendan is a leadership coach, consultant and podcast host from the Culture of Leadership! Special thanks to Marc from Central Coast Digital Media for recording this interview for us! 

This week we are joined by our newly named Stats Man of the podcast John Shepherd. John is the General Manager of the National Data Acquisition Division at the Australian Bureau of Statistics and we chat about what is happening at the ABS and also what information you can get from the ABS to help your business! 

This week we tackle the tricky issue of frequent flyer programs and allowing your employees (including yourself!) to use the points for personal travel! We also why Tim the Grinch likes easter more than Christmas.

While at Accountex 2023 we were able to speak to lots of great software providers about what they were up to! Many have never been on the podcast before so it was great to chat to some new faces! We spoke to MYOB, Quickbooks, Pursuited, Content Snare, Aider, Next Minute, Cloud Staff, Business Fitness and others! This episode is all about the software and services at the conference.

On day 2 of Accountex Tim and Dan take a moment to reflect on what trends we are seeing at the conference and discuss what we got up to on day/night 1!

On this live from Accountex episode of the podcast we sit down in the caravan of fun with John Munden (the Podfather himself) to discuss why you should go to your industry conferences!

This week we have our first politician on the show! David Harris our local member for Wyong and the Shadow minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Treaty, Jobs, Investment and Tourism and the Central Coast comes on the podcast to chat all things NSW state election. We discuss what small businesses should be considering when deciding who to vote and also how to use your local member more effectively! 

Our number 1 requested return guest and friend of the podcast Mike Mortlock of MCG Quantity Surveyors returns to chat to us about his experience in using public relations for his business. This is an area we want to be better at and so it was a great chance to ask someone who is actually using PR well!

This week we start the conversation about outsourcing to an overseas team. Did you know  many accountants and many other industries do this? We don't but we wanted to explore the idea further and find out the truth of this complex issue. 

Book Nuggets! In the final episode of love your business February we tackle the often quoted Start With Why by Simon Sinek. We discuss our key takings from the book and also what we thought of the book as a whole. But first Tim tells an inappropriate joke! 

This week on the podcast we talk about the most important part of your business, You! Jay Merrilees discusses the fundamentals and elementals of looking after yourself and giving yourself some self-care! 

In this special adults only love your business February episode, we talk about the tax consequences of OnlyFans and adult entertainment more broadly! 

On this bonus episode of Love your Business February, we instead show some love for our industry and chat with Will Buckley, Country Manager of Xero in Australia about their State of the Industry report that comes out today! 

Its the first week of love February and we thought we would start with loving your business by increasing its value! We chat with Brett Goodyer from Business Valuations Online about some of the things you might not normally think about to increase your business's value. We also give out the Fuming Drunkie Award. 

I sold some pokemon cards on ebay, do I pay tax on that? We get this question more than you think! So we answer the questions when do you pay tax on selling collectibles online? 

We are back for the new year and this week we chat to Tony Harcourt co-founder of Work Guru to discuss all things job costing. What is it? Who should do it? How to do it? We cover it all! 

Who will win the most prestigious awards in the small business and accounting industry this year? Listen to this episode to find out! 

Tim's back! Aka Big Papi! To celebrate we do our next installment of book nuggets. This week we get to systemising with the E-Myth by Michael E Gerber. 

Still flying solo Dan is joined this week by the one and only Michele Grisdale from Rainforest Bookkeeping to discuss some of the steps to take when trying to go paperless in your business! 

This week Dan chats with Jason Staats an accountant in the USA about what it's like being an accountant in America compared to Australia. 

This week Dan is still without his ride or die Tim but filling in this week is Jack Dixon of Back Beach Accounting. This week Dan and Jack chat about Lifestyle accounting and revisiting what this actually means for working with your accountant. 

This week the man on the street himself comes onto the podcast. Thats right Michael Orford from HealthPoint Physiotherapy chats with Dan about how to prevent a sore neck and back from sitting at a desk all day. We chat about preventative measures and some simple tricks to help avoid the dreaded sore neck. 

This week your number one accounting app hype girl Heather Smith joins Dan to chat about what apps can help you better communicate with your clients! 

This week we are brewing another business! This time with the founder of LEP Digital, Laura Prael! Laura discusses the challenges of managing a team for the first time, switching to a 4 day work week and some of the hurdles she has experienced along the way!