Two Drunk Accountants

We celebrate our 200th episode live! We conduct a whisky sour lesson, Mike Mortlock from Geared for Growth and MCG Quantity Surveyors drops by, we get the man on the street's opinion on the economy and tax deductible golf, we listen to audio tributes and we laugh and talk nonsense. If thats the kind of thing you are into, you will love this episode. Thanks for listening everyone!

A quick update from last nights budget. What should you know? What did we think? We discuss it all. 

This week we chat to friend of the podcast Leon Black from Anspired about what the recent Optus data breach has showed us, how frequent these kind of things actually happen and what you as a small business can do about it. 

This week we chat to Trevor Satour about what small business should know about the upcoming referendum and how to stay informed. 

This week we do a book nuggets on Deep Work by Cal Newport! We gleaned a lot out of this book so have a listen and see how you can drain the shallows from your life!

In our final episode live from Xerocon we chat with Luis Sanchez the EGM of Practice Management and Leigh O'Neill the EGM of Financial Services at Xero to hear whats happening at Xero and what we can look forward to in the coming years!

Are you a small business owner? Than this one is for you! Dan, Tim and Bec discuss everything we learned for small businesses at Xerocon! We also interview the folks at Cogo and Service M8! 

If your an accountant or bookkeeper this episode is for you! This week Dan, Tim and Bec recap what we learned about the industry at xerocon! We discuss what we took away about things happening in our industry and what cool apps we found. This week also features interviews from David Watson the Co-Founder of Fathom, Theo Mitsinikos from Dashboard Insights, friend of the podcast Heather Smith and get the word on the ground from punter Holly!

We recap Xerocon day one and give our top 5 things from the day! 

This week we discuss our tips when attending networking events and also have a chat about what you can expect from us over xerocon!

This week we chat to Sam Petrusma, Co-Founder of Advantage Agency (the people who built our fancy new website by the way) about all things marketing. Its often misunderstood what marketing even is! So we talk to Sam about this and about how to get the most out of your relationship with a marketing agency and how to do marketing better.

This week we tackle non-commercial loss rules and how they might relate to your business or side hussle!

This week we brew a business with Sam Trayhurn the founder of Chuffed Skates. We talk about building communities, what it like designing a product for the first time and all the road bumps she has faced as her business has grown. 

This week we dive into the whether or not you pay tax on your home when you sell it! We also tackle the difficult question of biscuit vs cookie. 

This week we go through some recent changes to trust distributions and what you can do with them, specifically this week we chat about  the ATO's interpretation to section 100a and distributing income to family. 

This week we chat about the different ways to check if you are charging enough and then if you decide you aren't how to approach your customers to let them know of the change. 

This week we discuss what to review when completing your STP, TPAR and other lodgements with an acronym! 

Heather Smith is back, hype girl for accounting apps, author, podcaster, accountant and anything else I think she puts her mind too, chats to us about some strategies you can use and some apps that might help take back control of your calendar and time!

This week we discuss some of the tips we have for running a team planning day! We also discuss some change to wages and superannuation coming up and also how often you should wash your pants. 

This week we revisit the age old question of where is my time going? Because we feel we need to ask ourselves this at the moment. We discuss how to review your time and strategies to help! Because we need it.