The QuickBooks Wizard
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
🎵 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 t...
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-making
- Tangle, who f...
🎶 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 n...
🐾 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 hab...
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 sho...
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 slo...
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, invisibl...
🎵 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 i...
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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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 ...
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 th...
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...
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
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]
💫 Support the show → http...
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 d...
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...
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
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 t...
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
R...
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 vill...
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