IMA's Count Me

JULY 25, 2021

Hilla Sferruzza, MBA, CPA has been the Chief Financial Officer, Executive VP for Meritage Homes Corporation (NYSE:MTH) since 2016 and its Chief Accounting Officer, Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller since 2008.

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Cloud Accounting Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

He's a CPA, PFS, and CGMA. There's a tweet from Logan Graf, CPA. Thank you, Blake and David, for this invaluable and unique resource - you've helped me and my firm in our journey to the future of cloud accounting and CFO advisory services." So that's Reynaldo Arellano. Thank you, Reynaldo. The largest group said, "Let's move it."

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Cloud Accounting Podcast

MARCH 30, 2020

The last time the IRS sent stimulus checks, in 2008 and 2009, it took more than two months to get the money in the mail. The fact that these deadlines haven't been extended is one of the reasons why, in most states, CPA firms are designated as critical businesses and are still open. I'm Blake Oliver CPA. How about you, David?

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Cloud Accounting Podcast

MARCH 21, 2020

I bet we'll find that a number of highly placed people in Congress did insider trading. David Leary: [00:25:54] This Burr guy's even worse because, when they had the bill a decade to go, after the 2008 situation - they passed that bill about Congress and insider trading - he's one of the three senators that voted against it.

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Cloud Accounting Podcast

APRIL 11, 2020

The business advisor, to the CPA firm can help navigate that with the client. We learned this in the 2008 stimulus package. It's somebody who has a finance professional, or a CPA, who can mobilize them very quickly, but that is- Erik Asgeirsson: [00:34:44] That's right. Stay on the payroll." Erik Asgeirsson: [00:28:43] Yeah.

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Cloud Accounting Podcast

JUNE 1, 2020

The firm grew 15 percent from 2008 to 2009, and that has been the normal amount of growth ever since. Lou recalls talking with one distraught business owner who was not a Grassi client, but who was concerned about his company's future in 2008. This was a giant lead-generation funnel. I haven't heard from them.'

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Cloud Accounting Podcast

APRIL 27, 2020

The last stimulus, in 2008, it was twice that. Now, step back and do the math on this. 900 billion. That's $45 billion for the banks that they get in fees. They got $90 billion, the banks did, in the bailout. But to do that, the government got preferred stock in the banks. Blake Oliver: [00:21:06] Right.

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Cloud Accounting Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

Hopefully, in our next episode, we'll have an actual bill or a proposal to talk about. [00:14:10] Something related - state CPA societies, and the AICPA are calling for federal relief for state and local governments amid the coronavirus. I mean, Kurt's a CPA, right? That's what's going on with stimulus right now.

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