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On the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Paul Peterson and Matt Barbieri, hosts of The Accounting Disruptors, step away from AI and accounting…
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On the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Paul Peterson and Matt Barbieri, hosts of The Accounting Disruptors, step away from AI and accounting to reflect on where they were…
Paul Peterson and Matt Barbieri, hosts of The Accounting Disruptors, unpack why most firms adopting AI right now are adding cost without changing anything about how the work actually gets done,…
Only 10% of businesses are using AI for real, agentic work, even though 85% of accounting teams call it a strategic priority. On this episode of The Accounting Disruptors, hosts Paul…
Hundreds of billions in AI infrastructure spend from Google and Microsoft aren't landing where you'd expect on the balance sheet, and Paul Peterson and Matt Barbieri open this episode of The…
Accounts receivable doesn't get the attention accounts payable does, but it's the function that actually gets a business paid. In this episode of This Week in Accounting AI, host Paul Peterson,…
Paul Peterson and Matt Barbieri, hosts of This Week in Accounting AI, break down two client calls that show exactly where AI is changing accounting, and where it isn't. One client…
AI is forcing organizations to rethink more than their technology. It's reshaping leadership, strategy, and the way people adapt to change. In this episode of This Week in Accounting AI, Paul…
AI adoption isn't just changing technology. It's changing how organizations lead. In this episode of This Week in Accounting AI, Paul Peterson and Matt Barbieri share lessons from an AI conference…
Technology isn't the hardest part of AI adoption. Leadership is. In this episode of This Week in Accounting AI, Paul Peterson and Matt Barbieri discuss why accounting firms and finance organizations…
When hundreds of Stanford students walked out on Google's CEO at commencement, most people filed it under "campus drama." Paul Peterson and Matt Barbieri see it differently. In this episode of…
56% of CFOs say they've adopted AI. Only 7% say they're getting a return on it. This week, Paul Peterson and Matt Barbieri open with that Gartner data, and make the…
Paul Peterson and Matt Barbieri just returned from four weeks on the road — BDO's firm conference in Vegas, an investor summit in San Francisco, Boston Tech Week, and NYC Tech…
Netgain CEO Adam Riches joins Paul Peterson to expose why ERP systems deprioritized accounting decades ago — and why CFOs are still paying the price. They cover the history of accounting…
In episode 12, Paul and Matt get into the uncomfortable truth about accounting departments: too many of them are held hostage by a single person who has turned a process into…
Fresh off the Wiss Labs Bourbon & Bookkeeping event, Paul Peterson and Matt Barbieri unpack the three biggest questions a room full of CFOs, controllers, and founders brought to the table:…
Cody Sugarman, co-founder of Abacus, joins Wiss CEO Paul Peterson and Tech Practice Partner Matt Barbieri to discuss how artificial intelligence is tackling the most overlooked bottleneck in tax practice —…
Fresh off the BDO Annual Conference and meetings in San Francisco, Paul Peterson and Matt Barbieri get real about what's actually happening with AI adoption in accounting, and what's not. Drawing…
For 30 years, ERPs have been built for operations, and the general ledger got bolted on as an afterthought. Paul Peterson and Matt Barbieri argue that's exactly why so many finance…
Paul Peterson and Matt Barbieri make the case that offshoring is a bandaid, not a fix, and that CFOs evaluating accounting partners need to stop asking "how cheap?" and start asking…
Tax season is over. The real work is just beginning. In this episode, Paul Peterson and Matt Barbieri pull back the curtain on what actually happens inside an accounting firm during…
After 25 years in the trenches together, Paul and Matt get candid about something most firm leaders won't say out loud: accounting has been a soul-crushing profession, and it didn't have…
In this solo episode, Wiss CEO Paul Peterson gets candid about a question he recently put in writing: why does accounting sometimes feel soulless? Paul draws on real responses from accounting…
Paul Peterson and Matt Barbieri break down the costly mistake venture-backed founders keep making — hiring a CFO before the fundamentals are in place, then watching the org chart balloon from…
Cody Sugarman, co-founder of Abacus, joins Wiss CEO Paul Peterson and Tech Practice Partner Matt Barbieri to discuss how artificial intelligence is tackling the most overlooked bottleneck in tax practice —…
This week, Paul Peterson and Matt Barbieri break down two buzzworthy a16z articles asking the questions everyone in finance is thinking: will AI kill Excel? And what happens to your ERP?…
What does it actually take to bring AI into a live accounting practice? In Episode 5, Wiss CEO Paul Peterson and Tech Practice Partner Matt Barbieri sit down with Transformation Lead…
AI tools are advancing fast, but is your accounting team actually ready to use them? In this episode, Paul Peterson and Matt Barbieri dig into one of the most overlooked obstacles…
Everyone's asking how to implement AI. That's the wrong question. In Episode 1 of This Week in Accounting AI, Paul Peterson and Matt Barbieri get into what's really behind the gap…
Your invoices go out late. Collections drag on for weeks. And 70% of your finance team is stuck doing billing instead of strategic work.Sound familiar?Here's the kicker: Most finance leaders think…
Legacy ERPs have held finance teams hostage for decades. Clunky systems. Manual processes. 15-day closes that should take 3. Finance teams kept throwing more bodies at the problem because what else…
📺 WATCH THE FULL SERIES: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu3WbduSvu9Rcw9yCikvO-z3k8JQKp0Kn🔔 Subscribe for more conversations with accounting innovators: @wisscompanyllp In Part 2 of this conversation, Basis AI co-founder Matt Harpe gets tactical about how accounting firms…
Matt Harpe, co-founder of Basis AI, joins Wiss CEO Paul Peterson to discuss how artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the accounting profession. In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Matt reveals…
