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Accounting Against The Machine
Training humans to be harder to replace. QBO tips, certification notes, and the occasional scavenger hunt for The Resistance Accountants.
October 21, 2026
ProAdvisor Prep: Workforce — Module 4: Running Payroll and Filing Taxes
The Resistance Accountants | Accounting Against the Machine Welcome to the final Workforce module. We've met QuickBooks Workforce, untangled the wonderful world of payroll taxes, and configured enough settings to make a reasonably intelligent person question their career choices. Now we're going to do the thing everybody has been preparing for: Actually pay people. Which […]
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October 20, 2026
ProAdvisor Prep: Workforce — Module 3: Setting Up Payroll
Welcome back, Resistance Accountants. In Module 2, we worked through payroll taxes, employee classifications, overtime, and the difference between what employees earn and what employers actually owe. Now we're going to set up the system responsible for calculating and tracking all of that. Which means we're entering the part of QuickBooks where one incorrect tax […]
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October 15, 2026
Workforce Module 2 — Understanding Payroll: The Money, the Taxes & Who Actually Pays What
Resistance Accountants · QuickBooks Workforce Certification Prep · Federal rules verified for 2026 We've made it to payroll taxes. They suck. I know this. But here we are. Because it's important. And if you've ever looked at a paycheck and wondered why the amount you earned and the amount you actually received seem to belong […]
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October 3, 2026
ProAdvisor Prep: Workforce — Module 1: Meet QuickBooks Workforce
So we're doing payroll now. Yep. Because finishing Level 1 and Level 2 apparently wasn't enough. And I appreciate that. Welcome to QuickBooks Workforce, Resistance Accountants! And before we start clicking on shit, there's an important distinction to make: Workforce isn't just the little employee website some of us remember where somebody went to retrieve […]
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September 24, 2026
ProAdvisor Prep: Level 2 — Reporting, Financial Planning & Making the Numbers Mean Something
We made it. Final module of Level 2. Nobody died. Gertrude threatened several people. Gladys went from shelter dog making an unauthorized guest appearance in Module 2 to actually becoming mine before we finished the course. Honestly, I consider that the most successful outcome of the entire curriculum. But we still have one thing left […]
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September 22, 2026
ProAdvisor Prep: Level 2 — Banking, Rules & Finding the Bodies
A Quick Credit Where It's Due This module is a little different from the others because I didn't compile the source material for it. My fellow Resistance Accountant and dear reader, Taissa, did. 🌸 She worked through this material, organized the concepts, and built the original scavenger hunt you’ll find below after she completed the […]
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September 18, 2026
ProAdvisor Prep: Level 2 — Expenses, Vendors & The Money Going Out
In our first Level 2 module, we dealt with customers, sales, and advanced billing—the part where money is theoretically supposed to come into the business. Now we're going the other direction. Expenses and Vendors. Because apparently businesses insist upon spending money too. Rude. And we have a special guest for this one. Wallace and Gertrude […]
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September 11, 2026
ProAdvisor Prep: Level 2 — Sales, Customers & Advanced Billing
Well, shit. We made it to Level 2. Wallace is excited. Gertrude is wearing a sweater and pretending she has always understood advanced billing. I have checked the current Intuit documentation because Gemini, aka Gemindiarrhea has already demonstrated that confidence and accuracy are two entirely different subscription plans. *Please stay tuned until the end for […]
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August 31, 2026
ProAdvisor Prep: Module 6 — Closing the Books Without Burying Them
Look at us. Module fucking six. We have navigated QBO. Built clients. Imported data. Managed bank feeds. Matched transactions. Reconciled accounts. Run reports. Wallace and Gertrude are wearing party hats. Something significant has clearly happened. But before anybody starts firing confetti cannons and declaring themselves Lord High Accountant of QuickBooks, we have one more Level […]
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August 31, 2026
ProAdvisor Prep: Module 5 — Reporting: Okay, But What Do the Numbers Actually Mean?
We made it through reconciliation. The books agree with the bank. We achieved our glorious $0.00. Wallace and Gertrude are proud of us. Now what? Welcome to Module 5: Reporting, where we finally take all this beautifully organized financial information and ask: So what the hell does it tell us? Because clean books are important. […]
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August 31, 2026
ProAdvisor Prep: Module 4 — Matching, Reconciling & The Glorious $0.00
We've arrived at Module 4: Matching and Reconciling Accounts. And after everything we've done so far, this module answers a pretty important question: How the hell do we know our books are actually right? In Module 3, bank transactions came pouring into QBO and we learned that automation does not relieve us of the responsibility […]
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August 31, 2026
ProAdvisor Prep: Module 3 — Taming the Bank Feed
We've made it to Module 3: Managing Banking Feeds. This is where QuickBooks starts doing some genuinely useful shit for us. It's also where clicking buttons without understanding what they're doing can create an absolutely spectacular mess. So that's fun. In Module 2, we set up our fictional client, cleaned up their incoming data, learned […]
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August 28, 2026
ProAdvisor Prep: Module 2 — Setting Up a New Client & Importing Data
We survived Module 1. You can navigate the dashboard. You know whose books you're in. You've clicked on things. Hopefully none of those things belonged to an actual client. Now we're moving on to Module 2: Setting Up a New Client & Importing Data. And this is where QBO starts feeling less like software you're […]
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August 27, 2026
ProAdvisor Prep: Cracking the Code on Module 1 — Dashboard Navigation
So you've created your QBOA account. Excellent. Now we have to actually open the damn thing. Welcome to Module 1: dashboard navigation—the part where QuickBooks introduces you to approximately 47 places you can click and then waits patiently to see what you'll do. This first module isn't particularly glamorous, but don't blow through it because […]
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August 27, 2026
How to Make AI Work for You Instead of the Other Way Around
An Accounting Against the Machine Side Quest We're taking a brief detour from ProAdvisor certification. Don't worry. There will be plenty more QuickBooks. But if you're learning modern accounting software, you're going to run into AI whether you particularly asked for it or not. It's being built into software, search tools, productivity platforms, browsers, and […]
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August 26, 2026
So You Want to Learn QBO? Start Here.
Welcome to the first actual entry in Accounting Against the Machine. Look at us. We have content now. For the inaugural educational post, I figured I should probably start with the thing that surprised the hell out of me when I rediscovered my own QuickBooks Online Accountant account: There is an absurd amount of training […]
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August 26, 2026
The Resistance Accountants
There are sentences I never expected to write in my life. “I’m halfway through my QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor certification.” That is one of them. Yet here we fucking are. Recently, a company offered me an opportunity to help train their AI. The position paid almost twice what I make now. I had until today to […]
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