The Billing Revolution: AI, Time, and the Future of Accounting Firms with Blake Oliver
| Hosted by Tom Wadelton & Adam Hale
The Modern CPA Success Show: Episode 151
AI is already here. If you are still billing by the hour and running your team on timesheets, you are building on a foundation that is cracking fast.
Blake Oliver, Founder and CEO of Earmark and one of Accounting Today’s top 100 most influential people, talks about the billing revolution happening right now in accounting. Blake breaks down why the billable hour is the root of inefficiency in accounting firms, how AI agents are replacing routine staff work, and what the future of fixed-fee and subscription billing looks like for small and mid-sized CPA firms.
Blake Oliver did not take the traditional accounting route. He started as a musician, stumbled into bookkeeping, and became one of the earliest cloud accounting adopters in the U.S. — the second bookkeeper certified on Xero in the country.
If you want to stay ahead and build a firm that thrives in the next decade, this is the episode to press play on. Tune in to The Billing Revolution: AI, Time, and the Future of Accounting Firms with Blake Oliver.
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