EP173: David Leary - Business Insight For Your Success In 2020 & Beyond

Ad Read: For me, when I started my new company and I had my own real QuickBooks file, right, and I had auto entry hooked up to it, and I spent money on my debit card, so it was the first transaction ever for my business, right? The email receipt comes in, I forward the email receipt to auto entry, auto entry automatically scans it and shoves it into my QuickBooks, and then QuickBooks automatically matches it to the bank feed. And I'm standing up and down in my kitchen just screaming like, "This stuff really works!" Like, 'cause before it's all been theory, right? It's never been my real data. And I think that's the realization for me is like, All these things we've been talking about, and I've been talking about over the last 6 years, is here today and it works. It really works. And that, that, that for me is the biggest eye-opener. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to The Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a fantastic one. Our guest is the co-host of the popular Cloud Accounting Podcast, David Leary. Welcome to the show, Michael. Thanks for having me. I should actually just have you host my podcast because you have a much better podcast hosting personality and voice than I think I do. Come on, I should have Blake swap you out for me. Come on.

David Leary: No, it's so, uh, so great to have you on the show, and I'm looking forward to sharing who you are. And I know a lot of our listeners listen already, listen to your podcast. It's a very popular podcast and very valuable, but I'm hoping you'll find some new listeners in our listenership as well. But before we get into all of that, David, tell us a little bit about you and your career journey leading up to this point.

Ad Read: Yeah, so a little bit about me. I was at Intuit almost 22 years. I left about 18, about 20 months ago or so from Intuit, but my career at Intuit was all QuickBooks. So I've grown up in this space, started when I was about 22 years old, or I don't even know if I was 22 yet, so I was probably still, I was 21 when I started Intuit. I did tech Tech support for QuickBooks DOS. So to age