CPA Tech Blog

10/09/2026

NEW PODCAST EPISODE: ATL278 — "Covered-ish: Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and the AI Liability Question". Four major AI vendors, different contractual promises, and one crucial question: Who owns the risk?

Available NOW at https://cpate.ch/278?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=Zoho+Social

Artificial intelligence is transforming accounting workflows, but w...

10/06/2026

What can technology M&A tell us about the future? Quite a bit. AI routers. Agents. Edge AI. Data platforms. Coding tools. First-party data. Follow the money in ATL277: Technology Mergers and Acquisitions. Watch here=> https://cpate.ch/277

10/03/2026

One of the biggest risks of software consolidation isn't necessarily that your application disappears tomorrow. It may simply become financially unavailable after years of price increases. That's why we recommend revisiting contingency plans after an acquisition. Learn about how tech M&A is shaping the future of all professions and the components of your next technology stack in ATL277, Technology Mergers & Acquisitions at https://cpate.ch/277.

10/02/2026

Salesforce + Fin. NVIDIA + Hugging Face. SpaceX + Cursor. Stripe + OpenRouter. These aren't random deals. They're strategic bets on where AI is going next. Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley connect the dots on ATL277: Technology Mergers and Acquisitions.

10/01/2026

ATL272- The Gathering Storm is a warning about a significant change in the op tempo of cybercriminals and how AI is changing the security, not a prediction of doom. Over 900 vulnerabilities were patched in September’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday, up from an average of 90-100 per month in 2024. Delaying software updates is riskier than ever in this environment.
Use the time you have now to harden, patch, rehearse, test, inventory, and govern. Listen now https://cpate.ch/272 Accounting Technology Lab.

09/30/2026

Your software vendor just got acquired. Now what? In ATL277, Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley look beyond the M&A headlines to the questions accounting firms should be asking about pricing, product roadmaps, integrations, security, and contingency plans.
Coming this Friday at noon ET at https://cpate.ch/277 or at https://cpapracticeadvisor.com/podcasts

09/26/2026

What happens when you give eleven AI agents jobs, personalities, responsibilities—and enough autonomy to expose everything that can go brilliantly right and spectacularly wrong?

I’m particularly proud of this ATL episode, which explores learnings from a particularly interesting project- a completely virtual accounting firm with one human and eleven agents.

Watch here: https://cpate.ch/276

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In ATL276, Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley sit down with Alexis Kingsbury, author of Accrual Intentions, to unpack what he learned from building a deliberately extreme experiment: an accountancy practice staffed by eleven AI agents with their own roles, personalities, and responsibilities. Kingsbury explains that the project began as part parody and part management-science experiment, but quickly became a practical test of delegation, workflow design, controls, and human judgment.

09/11/2026

Coming to the Accounting Tech Lab next Friday - [I think it's a record for my worst pun ever]

"What Tokens are You Smokin'?"

==>Whenever you use AI, you're just smokin' a bunch of tokens.

Like gas to your car (or your lawnmower, or your chainsaw), AI compute power is really just a bunch of tokens - and you can use them for different purposes. You can also buy them from many different sources, not just direct through "all you can eat" subs.

Coming Friday 9/18/2026 at noon ET! Join our premiere at https://cpate.ch/275

08/14/2026

2H 2026 is going to be a doozy for security- Patch Tuesday this week fixed literally hundreds of CVE’s- for the third month in a row.
Batten down the hatches folks, it’s going to be interesting.
This Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737 - WIRED

Security researchers found that in less than 60 seconds, they could open a hatch on a plane’s exterior, plug in a tiny device, and redirect the aircraft’s autopilot or sabotage its flight plan.

08/10/2026

Randy and I discuss the computer hardware price issues in our next podcast, “Hardware Hullabaloo” (ATL270), which goes live at noon ET on Friday. 8/14/2026. This article reflects some of what we’ve seen when working with clients this year.

To learn more about the podcast and review summaries of the episodes we’ve released over the last couple of years, visit the CPA Tech Wiki page for ATL at https://cpate.ch/podwiki. You can also visit our YouTube page at https://cpate.ch/youtube. Other URLs:
- Podcast and links to subscribe: https://podcast.cpate.ch
- CPAPA podcast page: https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/podcasts/

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Memory prices have erased 20 years of progress in a single year, researcher says https://flip.it/5418CM

According to computer science researcher and software performance expert Daniel Lemire, skyrocketing memory prices are a "historical anomaly," with the unprecedented increases effectively erasing decades of steady,...