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Show Notes

• 00:22 – Can you charge premium fees if you call yourself a bookkeeper? 
• 01:11 – What are the odds that David will escape federal grand jury duty and get to attend Accountex 2019? 
• 02:56 – Meghan shares the inspiration behind the  Inclusion Without Assimilation - Encouraging Diversity and Inclusion within the Accounting, Finance and Fintech world event, featuring some of The Cloud Accounting Podcast’s former guests – Jina Etienne, and Nayo Carter-Gray
• 07:57 – The reviews are in! David and Blake run down some more reviews of the show from iTunes and Podchaser
• 10:37 – Intuit’s ecosystem, and revenue continue to grow, according to their latest earnings report | Intuit
• 13:20 – Well, they do say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery .. QuickBooks’ latest addition, employee benefits options, looks a lot like Gusto’s product offering | Intuit QuickBooks 
• 15:07 – The Xero-OnPay partnership - in search of a bountiful harvest from the ag industry | Xero Blog
• 15:32 – In light of Expensify’s recent CPE-credit offering, Blake explains why this might be a no-brainer when it comes to increasing engagement | Business Wire
• 18:07 – Cash – more than $6 billion of it - is still king in some of Uber’s global locations | MarketWatch
• 21:31 – Strategic move or smokescreen? UPS eliminates 60+ accounting jobs in Texas | The Dallas Morning News
• 24:13 – Tax preparers who don’t raise their rates are leaving a load of money on the table | Accounting Today
• 26:15 --  Meghan talks about changing the scope of services along with raising rates, and why bookkeepers are typically the first to try out new strategies, like perpetual accounting  | CPA Practice Advisor
• 27:55 – 34.3 billion reasons the IRS needs a bigger budget | Indiana University 
• 29:07 -- Why Matt Paff (another former CAP guest) is

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