We're celebrating surpassing 10,000 YouTube subscribers! Thank you! Blake and David look into H&R Block's new reality show about teaching people life skills like doing their taxes. They also talk about workflow automation challenges for accounting firms, how the IRS is contacting wealthy non-filers, and the Trump Organization CFO pleading guilty to perjury. They also break down the SEC's extensive new climate disclosure rules and the job opportunities this could create for accountants.Sponsors FreshBooks - http://accountingpodcast.promo/freshbooksRelay - http://accountingpodcast.promo/relay Webgility - http://accountingpodcast.promo/webgilityChapters(03:04) - H&R Block is creating a reality TV show (08:51) - WSJ Op-Ed says IRS agents shouldn't work from home (12:21) - The Accountant 2 gets a big tax credit (14:42) - South Carolina finds $2 billion in bank account (20:49) - Bloomberg article on the lack of accountants (23:18) - Regional banks in trouble? (27:00) - Lyft being sued by their shareholders (29:39) - Is bad workflow automation the cause of bad work/life balances? (37:42) - CPA Trendlines: "Which Niche is the Best Niche?" (46:28) - TurboTax and H&R Block are using AI giving awful tax advice (50:12) - Blake shares new SEC rule's GPT he made (53:19) - AI and data privacy concerns (55:48) - Can AI predict when you'll die? (01:01:37) - Former Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg pleads guilty to perjury (01:03:56) - Thanks for listening and remember to subscribe  Show Notes2024 Report: The State of Accounting Workflow Automationhttps://financial-cents.com/resources/articles/2024-report-state-of-accounting-workflow-automation/ Gartner Survey Shows That a Third of Accountants Make Several Financial Errors Per Week due to Capacity Constraints       https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-02-21-gartner-survey-shows-that-a-third-of-accountants-make-several-error-per-weeo-due-to-capacity-constraints The U.S. is short 340,000 accountants-just look at the wave of earnings report mistakeshttps://fortune.com/2024/03/01/accounting-shortage-earnings-report-mistakes/ Intuit, H&R Block tax AIs critiqued on accuracyhttps://www.accountingtoday.com/news/intuit-h-r-block-tax-ais-critiqued-on-accuracy-of-answers-many-inaccurate SC accounting error gets renewed focus over $1.8B sitting in state bank accounthttps://www.southcarolinapublicradio.org/sc-news/2024-03-05/legis-treasurermoney Ex-Trump Org CFO Pleads Guilty to Perjury in Fraud Casehttps://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2024/03/05/ex-trump-org-cfo-pleads-guilty-to-perjury-in-fraud-case/102306/ H&R Block to Release Short Format Comedy Streaming Series, “Responsibility Island”