Show Notes
Can AI really clean up messy bookkeeping—and what happens when firms trust it too much? Blake and David break down KPMG’s error-filled AI report, the Pentagon’s new “Agentic Auditor,” and State Farm’s move to tie agent pay to AI. Blake also shares how he used Claude to complete two years of write-up work in hours, with practical lessons on where AI helps, where it fails, and why human review still matters.
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Chapters (00:00) - TAP 493
(02:20) - KPMG AI Report Scandal
(04:01) - GPTZero Findings Breakdown
(05:16) - Hallucinated Case Studies
(07:18) - Pentagon Turns to AI Audits
(08:33) - Microsoft Copilot Cowork Launch
(10:09) - Claude Cowork Write Up Win
(15:22) - Recon Fixes and Loan Discovery
(20:48) - Future of Agentic Accounting
(24:06) - Livestream Q and A TaxGPT
(27:01) - AI Review and Human Loop
(28:38) - QuickBooks AI Gripe Vibe Coding
(31:15) - OnPay Payroll Pitch
(32:10) - CPA Fees Rising
(33:58) - State Farm AI Agents
(37:09) - SpaceX IPO Accounting
(39:31) - Musk Disclosure Shift
(41:02) - Quarterly Reporting Debate
(46:31) - Celebrity Accountant Fraud
(50:52) - KPMG Summer Perk Cut
(52:24) - Intuit Humanizing AI
(55:22) - IRS Data Shared With ICE
(57:56) - CPE And Farewell
Show Notes Chasing the Hallucinations: KPMG's AI-Powered Attempt at "Redefining Excellence" https://gptzero.me/news/investigations-kpmg/
KPMG's AI report becomes an accidental demo of AI hallucinations https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/12/kpmgs-ai-report-turns-into-a-demo-of-ai-hallucinations/5255029
Pentagon turns to AI in push for clean financial audit by 2028 https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2026-06-11/pentagon-audit-ai-contract-21941885.html
Copilot Cowork is now generally available https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/06/16/copilot-cowork-is-now-generally-available/
Tax Prep Billing Rates Lift Busy Season 2026 https://cpatrendlines.com/2026/04/14/tax-prep-emerges-from-busy-season-2026-as-the-new-engine-for-billing-rates/
State Farm overhauls agent contracts, mandates AI use https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/state-farm-overhauls-agent-contracts-115756712.html
SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen quietly engineered its historic IPO and became an overnight billionaire https://fortune.com/2026/06/13/spacex-cfo-bret-johnsen-overnight-billionaire-ipo/
SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen joins billionaire ranks after $75B IPO: Trial Balance https://www.cfo.com/news/spacex-cfo-bret-johnsen-joins-billionaire-ranks-after-ipo-trial-balance/822848/
Investors oppose semiannual reporting, says poll https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/investors-oppose-semiannual-reporting-says-poll
CFA Institute Investor Perspectives: Quarterly Reporting 2026 https://rpc.cfainstitute.org/sites/default/files/docs/research-reports/investor-perspectives-quarterly-reporting-2026.pdf
The Global Freelancer Pay Gap Report https://www.remitly.com/us/en/landing/global-freelancer-pay-gap
Nick Cannon's Business Accountant Allegedly Embezzles $2 Million, Flees U.S. https://www.tmz.com/2026/05/08/nick-cannon-business-manager-embezzled-millions/
KPMG scraps summer early Friday finish for staff https://www.cityam.com/kpmg-scraps-summer-early-friday-finish-for-staff/
Intuit hires Mother to humanize the QuickBooks maker's AI pitch https://adage.com/agencies/accounts-in-review/aa-intuit-hires-mother-as-creative-strategy-partner/
After issuing more than $20 billion in tariff refunds, the Trump administration is now pursuing legal action to bring the process to a standstill https://fortune.com/2026/06/01/trump-administration-plan-appeal-illegal-ieepa-tariff-universal-refunds/
IRS gave 47,000 taxpayers' addresses to ICE https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/irs-gave-47-000-taxpayers-addresses-to-ice
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