We Are All Lying: Blake Oliver on the Collapse of Accounting, and How to Fix It

Blake Oliver, CPA, founder of Earmark and host of the most listened-to accounting podcast, joins Devon to talk about the crisis of trust in the profession: secret timesheets, burnout built into the system, CPE that no longer teaches, and revenue recognition games. They also talk about what it would take to fix it.

In This Episode

• Secret timesheets and the behavior firms actually reward
• How burnout is built into the system by design
• Why CPE and training have lost their value
• Revenue recognition games that inflate earnings
• The culture of public accounting, and how to fix it

• Accounting profession
• Ethics
• Burnout