The QuickBooks Wizard
By: Automated Bookkeeping of Arizona, LLC
Language: en-us
Categories: Business, Entrepreneurship, Education, How To
Confused by QuickBooks? You’re not alone. The QuickBooks Wizard mixes bookkeeping wisdom, real-life messes, and a touch of humor to help small business owners get clarity and confidence in their numbers.
Episodes
Don't Name It Yet (featuring The Wizard)
Jan 08, 2026Send us a text
“Don’t Name It Yet” is about the moment before certainty hardens — when speed feels safer than truth, and labeling something too quickly offers quiet at a cost.
Built around themes of pressure, shortcuts, and premature answers, the song explores how easy it is to staple down a guess just to make the tension stop — and how heavy that decision becomes later. Every system tells a story, and every label we apply turns uncertainty into narrative, whether it’s accurate or not
The Wizard appears here as a steady pres...
Duration: 00:03:24Season Two Episode 6 - Before You Label It
Jan 08, 2026Send us a text
Most bookkeeping problems don’t start as mistakes.
They start as moments.
A moment when something feels slightly off.
A moment when you don’t have time to chase it.
A moment when you tell yourself, “I’ll come back to this.”
And then you don’t.
In this episode of The QuickBooks Wizard, we slow that moment down.
You’ll learn why labeling a transaction too quickly often creates more cleanup later — and how one simple pause can prevent confusion before it starts. This...
Duration: 00:23:51Feedy & the Bank Feeds - After It Settles
Jan 01, 2026Send us a text
After It Settles
After It Settles is a reflective, atmospheric companion track to Season 2 of The QuickBooks Wizard Podcast.
This song isn’t about fixing anything.
It’s about what happens after the noise fades.
Written as a quiet counterpoint to pressure, urgency, and constant decision-making, After It Settles sits in the space where nothing broke — but everything needed to slow down. It explores pause as wisdom, stillness as alignment, and clarity as something that often arrives only when you stop forcing answers.
No ve...
Duration: 00:03:32Season 2 Episode 5 What Carries Forward
Jan 01, 2026Send us a text
What Carries Forward
Season 2, Episode 5
January doesn’t erase December.
It reveals it.
In this episode of The QuickBooks Wizard Podcast, we slow down and talk about what actually carries forward when the year turns. Not resolutions. Not reinvention. But continuity.
You’ll hear why January often feels heavier than December, even when there’s less work…
why unfinished items aren’t failures, but markers…
and how confidence quietly returns when you stop reacting and start understanding.
This episode is...
Duration: 00:26:57When the Story Can Wait (Radio edit)
Dec 25, 2025Send us a text
🎵 When the Story Can Wait
Feedy & the Bank Feeds
This track was created as a companion piece to Episode 4, Season 2 of The QuickBooks Wizard Podcast.
“When the Story Can Wait” is about restraint in the middle of noise — the choice to pause instead of forcing resolution, and the quiet confidence that comes from knowing not everything has to be finished right now.
Built with layered textures, steady rhythm, and space to breathe, the song mirrors the heart of the episode: December is loud...
Duration: 00:02:38When the Story Can Wait
Dec 25, 2025Send us a text
When the Story Can Wait
Season 2, Episode 4
December is loud.
More transactions.
More pressure.
More urgency to finish strong — even when the signals stop making sense.
In this episode, we talk about what really happens to good systems under year-end overload — and why confusion in December is not the same thing as failure.
You’ll hear from:
Carl, who explains what overload does to decision-makingTangle, who feels the noise before anyone elseThe Wiza... Duration: 00:26:15First Number Wins
Dec 19, 2025Send us a text
🎶 Bonus Track: First Number Wins
Feedy & the Bank Feeds
First Number Wins is a gritty, 90s-inspired grunge instrumental born out of the tension that lives inside messy books, flashing warnings, and decisions made under pressure.
This track isn’t about teaching QuickBooks.
It’s about the feeling that comes before the teaching.
The hum of uncertainty.
The pull of the shortcut.
The moment when the first number that makes the screen go quiet… wins.
Written as a creative companion to...
Duration: 00:04:22Season 2 Episode 3 - O-Cat Loves a Label
Dec 18, 2025Send us a text
🐾 Episode 3: O-Cat Loves a Label
Why does it feel so good to slap a label on a transaction and move on?
In this episode of The QuickBooks Wizard Podcast, we meet O-Cat—the shortcut-loving creature who thrives on neat labels, quick fixes, and the sweet relief of a green checkmark. She’s not evil. She’s efficient. And under pressure, she’s very convincing.
Together in the Workshop, Brian, Carl, and the Wizard unpack a habit that quietly causes more bookkeeping stress than almost anyt...
Duration: 00:31:15Static on the Floor
Dec 13, 2025Send us a text
Static on the Floor
Bonus Track — QuickBooks Wizard Podcast
This is a bonus drop.
No teaching.
No workflow.
No bank feeds to reconcile.
Just sound.
“Static on the Floor” is a gritty, guitar-driven piece born out of the Workshop itself — the hum, the feedback, the moments when the tools are loud, the wires are alive, and something slightly unhinged is happening behind the scenes.
If you’ve been listening to the show, you’ve already met Feedy — th...
Duration: 00:03:16S2E2 - Bank feeds, Chaos & Carl
Dec 13, 2025Send us a text
Bank Feeds, Chaos & Carl
QuickBooks Wizard — Season 2, Episode 2
I’ll be upfront: this episode took longer than planned.
Not because I didn’t want to release it — but because everything changed at once.
New format.
New tools.
New methods.
New ways of building the show from the ground up.
If you’ve ever opened QuickBooks after an update and thought, “Why does this feel different, and why am I suddenly slower?” — congratulations, you already understand what happened behind the...
Duration: 00:25:01Feedy & the Bank Feeds - When Reconciliations Break
Dec 07, 2025Send us a text
🎵 Bonus Track — “Reconciliation Breakdown” (From The QuickBooks Wizard Podcast)
This original track captures the chaos, tension, and eventual clarity of Episode 1: When Reconciliations Break.
Inspired by the Wizard’s Workshop, tangled bank feeds, and the emotional rollercoaster every small business owner knows too well, this song blends gritty 90s-style dynamics, distorted guitars, and raw storytelling into a cathartic, loud-soft-loud release.
It’s the sound of:
clicking the wrong thing at 1 a.m.
discovering duplicates you swear weren’t there yesterday
facing the Recon Monster
S2E1 - When Reconciliations Break — Inside the Wizard’s Workshop
Dec 07, 2025Send us a text
When Reconciliations Break — Inside the Wizard’s Workshop
I promised you a Saturday episode — and here it is.
Thank you for your patience while I wrestled with production, recording, editing, and a few surprise monsters along the way. I said I’d deliver this on Saturday, and I meant it.
This one goes deep.
Reconciliations don’t fall apart all at once. They break slowly, quietly, invisibly… until suddenly nothing matches and everything feels wrong. In today’s Workshop session, we’re finally getting...
Episode Delay
Dec 04, 2025Send us a text
I am experiencing some technical challenges and won't be able to release the season premier as scheduled. It will be available no later than Saturday, December 6th, 2025 at Noon. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Believe me. I've spent the day now it is late and I just can't take anymore today.
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Duration: 00:00:27Season 2 Theme Song: “Wizard’s Workshop” (Feedy & The Bank Feeds)
Nov 23, 2025Send us a text
Step into the Workshop. 🔮📊
Season 2 officially has a heartbeat — and you’re hearing it.
This is the brand-new Theme Song for The QuickBooks Wizard — a synthwave-rock / funk hybrid straight out of Feedy & The Bank Feeds’ wild little corner of the universe.
If you’ve followed the show from Season 1, you already know the Wizard’s world runs on one strange combination:
magic + math —
and those lines blur in the best possible ways.
This theme sets the tone for everything comin...
Duration: 00:01:47Feedy & The Bank Feeds – “The Monster with Two Faces”
Oct 30, 2025Send us a text
What happens when the monster isn’t gone — just balanced?
In “The Monster with Two Faces,” Feedy & The Bank Feeds explore the tension between appearance and reality, profit and loss, truth and perception. It’s the calm after the mirror breaks, where you realize that balance doesn’t come from perfection — it comes from seeing both sides clearly.
This track continues the emotional thread that began with “Monster in the Mirror.” Where that song was raw and confessional, this one is composed and knowing — the Wizard’s quiet walk through ...
Duration: 00:03:46🧙♂️ Episode 10 – “The Next Cycle” (Season 1 Finale)
Oct 30, 2025Send us a text
When the dust finally settles, the Wizard doesn’t stand in triumph — he stands in reflection.
After a season of monsters, messes, and moments of revelation, this finale brings it all back to center.
No dragons, no chaos — just a quiet hill, a soft glow from the staff, and the truth every bookkeeper learns sooner or later:
order isn’t the end of the story … it’s the beginning of the next one.
In “The Next Cycle,” the Wizard looks back on what the first season has built — a wor...
Duration: 00:19:15Feedy & The Bank Feeds – Monster in the Mirror (QuickBooks Wizard Universe Series)
Oct 26, 2025Send us a text
From the same chaotic universe that brought you Out of Sync Again, Feedy and the crew are back — staring down the scariest monster of all: the one in the mirror.
🎶 A song from the QuickBooks Wizard Universe — where bookkeeping meets rhythm, and chaos meets creativity.
Written by Brian Cogan
Produced with AI collaboration
© 2025 Automated Bookkeeping of Arizona
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Duration: 00:03:04Feedy and The Bank Feeds - Out of Sync Again
Oct 25, 2025Send us a text
Straight from The QuickBooks Wizard Podcast universe — Feedy & The Bank Feeds are back with their debut track, “Out of Sync Again.”
When your bank feeds miss a beat, the whole ledger starts to groove off-time.
🎩 Wizard on keys.
💚 Feedy on vocals.
🥁 Reconciliation on drums (calculator optional).
🎧 Listen to the full album “Out of Sync Again” → [YouTube playlist link]
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#FeedyAndTheBankFeeds #OutOfSyncAgain #QuickBooksWizard #SmallBusinessLife #BookkeepingHumor #RockTheBooks #Surv...
Duration: 00:02:51Episode 9: Monster in the Mirror
Oct 23, 2025Send us a text
When the monsters finally quiet down, the hardest one left to face is the one staring back at you.
In this episode, the Wizard and Brian explore what happens when the real problem isn’t QuickBooks… it’s our habits, shortcuts, and “I’ll-fix-it-later” moments.
Through humor, reflection, and a few magical metaphors, you’ll discover how to stop battling your books and start working with them.
Because the mirror doesn’t accuse — it reflects patterns you can change.
🪞 IN THIS EPISODE:
How to spot when the “real monster” is... Duration: 00:23:56Episode 8: When the Monsters Multiply: What a Bookkeeping Mess Really Means
Oct 16, 2025Send us a text
When bookkeeping chaos multiplies, it’s not just one problem — it’s a Hydra.
In this episode, Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor Brian Cogan and The Wizard dive into the monster that forms when small bookkeeping mistakes start feeding each other — from sloppy bank feeds to missing receipts.
You’ll learn how to recognize the warning signs early, stop the Hydra’s growth with one simple habit, and rebuild your books (and your peace) once the chaos clears.
Featuring stories, humor, and real-world advice from over 20 year...
Duration: 00:20:50Episode 7: Feedy & the Bank Feeds
Oct 09, 2025Send us a text
Bank feeds in QuickBooks Online can be your biggest time-saver… or your biggest headache.
Meet Feedy, the critter behind those green and grey lines in the Banking tab.
In this episode of the QuickBooks Wizard Podcast, Brian Cogan shows you how to:
Understand what the bank feed really does (Match vs Add explained)
Teach Feedy your house Rules so most transactions label themselves
Spot the top 4 ways Feedy misbehaves — duplicates, name-drift, transfers gone wild, and stale items — and fix them fast
Build a quic...
Episode 6: Meet the Reconciliation Monster
Oct 02, 2025Send us a text
Episode 6 – Meet the Reconciliation Monster
Month-end shouldn’t feel like a battle with your books.
In this episode, Brian Cogan — host of The QuickBooks Wizard Podcast — introduces you to the Reconciliation Monster, the sly creature that shows up whenever your statements and QuickBooks balances don’t match.
You’ll hear how Recon was born out of late-night bookkeeping frustration, why reconciliation is about more than just the bank account, and why that one line called Net Income is not supposed to be reconciled at...
Duration: 00:28:06Episode 5 – The Miscellaneous Monster: Taming QuickBooks’ Junk Drawer
Sep 26, 2025Send us a text
Do you have a “Miscellaneous” account in QuickBooks that just keeps growing?
In this episode of the QuickBooks Wizard Podcast, Brian introduces the shapeshifting monster who loves to hide your transactions — Miscellaneous.
We’ll uncover:
Why the Miscellaneous account exists (and when it’s okay to use)
How it quietly distorts your reports and hides the truth about your spending
Real-world cleanup stories from restaurants, contractors, and e-commerce stores
Practical steps to keep your books clear so you can make confident decisions
T...
Episode 4 - The Monster With Two Faces - Cash Versus Accrual
Sep 18, 2025Send us a text
Episode 4 – The Monster With Two Faces: Cash vs. Accrual
When your QuickBooks reports don’t match, it can feel like a monster is hiding in your books. In this episode of the QuickBooks Wizard Podcast, Brian Cogan introduces Accruelia, the Monster with Two Faces — cash vs. accrual — and shows how she confuses business owners who don’t know which face they’re looking at.
Through stories, teaching, and a tale from the village of Goldenbrook, you’ll learn:
Why cash and accrual often tell different stories.How to know wh... Duration: 00:26:51Episode 3 - Ask My Accountant: Stop Using It as a Shoebox
Sep 12, 2025Send us a text
Confused by QuickBooks’ “Ask My Accountant” account? You’re not alone.
In Episode 3 of the QuickBooks Wizard Podcast, Brian Cogan exposes one of the sneakiest bookkeeping monsters in the ledger: the Ask My Accountant account.
Too many business owners treat it like a digital shoebox — dumping mystery charges and telling themselves, “I’ll figure it out later.” The problem? Later never comes. And when tax season arrives, those missing details can cost you thousands in lost deductions and sleepless nights.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
Why Ask... Duration: 00:23:06Episode 2 — Receipts Without the Shoebox
Sep 06, 2025Send us a text
Receipts aren’t just paper—they’re proof. Proof of what you spent, what you can deduct, and what the IRS will ask for when they come calling. But too many business owners toss them into drawers, glove boxes, or the dreaded shoebox monster.
In this episode of The QuickBooks Wizard Podcast, Brian Cogan shares stories from 20+ years of bookkeeping: the roofer with a truck full of receipts, the café owner who lost thousands, and the simple 3-step “Snap, Categorize, Store” system that turns chaos into clarity.
Listen in and start tam...
Episode 1 - From Chaos to Clarity
Aug 27, 2025Send us a text
🎙️ Episode 1 – Chaos to Clarity
QuickBooks can feel like pure chaos — mystery balances, vague categories, and reports that never add up. In this pilot episode of The QuickBooks Wizard, we step into that mess and start turning it into clarity.
You’ll meet some of the monsters that thrive in bookkeeping chaos:
Miscellaneous — the formless blob that devours vague expenses and sloppy entries.
Uncategorized — the shadowy figure that keeps transactions floating in limbo.
Receipt Monster — the greedy little cre...