Where Accountants Go - The Accounting Careers Podcast

Where Accountants Go - The Accounting Careers Podcast episodes:

• 11.23.2021

  244: The Finale

  It's hard to believe, but after a little over 5 years and 240+ episodes, we are going to be shutting down the podcast... at least for now. The journey of starting from zero and building the collection of interviews one-by-one over...

  
• 11.16.2021

  243: Mansour Farhat – Continuing To Make Life Easier for Accounting Students

  Professor Mansour Farhat, a previous guest on our show, came back for this episode of Where Accountants Go to tell us about a new offering he has helped make available for accounting students. If you weren’t already aware of Mansour from...

  
• 10.26.2021

  242: Hitendra Patil – Becoming An Accountaneur ™

  Hitendra Patil of AccountantsWorld, who also frequently appears on the list of the Top 100 Most Influential People In Accounting, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. We like to cover a variety of career...

  
• 10.19.2021

  241: Lee Frederiksen – Discussing The Great Resignation

  Lee Frederiksen of Hinge joined us for this week’s episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. Lee’s team approached us with this topic, and we were very excited to have the discussion.  “The Great Resignation” is a phenomenon affecting...

  
• 10.12.2021

  240: Jennifer Todling – “You Can Be Whatever Kind Of Partner You Want To Be”

  Jennifer Todling, Partner with EY, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. When we scheduled this episode, we knew it was going to be a story of a successful, progressive accounting career as Jennifer had...

  
• 09.28.2021

  239: Tom Golden – Retired Forensics Partner and Author of Sunday Night Fears

  Tom Golden, a retired forensics partner from PwC (PriceWaterhouseCoopers), who also has authored two forensics thrillers, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. If you have ever wondered about the realities of investigating major frauds,...

  
• 09.21.2021

  238: Jason Parr of Peisner Johnson – From Assistant to President!

  Jason Parr, the President of Peisner Johnson, a state and local tax consulting company, joined us this week for Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. In this episode, we discuss the road less traveled so-to-speak with respect to careers… that...

  
• 09.14.2021

  237: Alicia Maples – Build Your Wealth By Firing Your Clients

  Alicia Maples, a professional business coach that I personally have worked with for many years, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, The Accounting Careers Podcast.  In this special edition episode, we have a very direct and practical...

  
• 09.07.2021

  236: Andrew Jordan – COO of FinancePal

  Andrew Jordan, CPA and COO of FinancePal, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast.  We touch on many topics in this particular show, from finding the right career fit for your own needs, all...

  
• 08.31.2021

  235: Loreal Jiles with the IMA – Building a Career in Digital Technology & Finance Transformation

  Loreal Jiles, the new VP of Research & Thought Leadership with the Institute of Management Accountants, joins us for this very interesting episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. In this episode, we discuss the technological transformation that has...

  
• 08.17.2021

  234.5: Out Sick!

  Announcement!  We are not gone, just taking a couple weeks off to recover from Covid. Join us again on August 31st when we release our next guest accountant interview.  You will enjoy this one - all about digital transformation! In the meantime, if...

  
• 08.10.2021

  234: Individual Tax Bootcamp ON-DEMAND is now here!

  This is a special announcement edition of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. For many years we have provided tax training for entry-level accountants and those without much tax experience through our live courses.  We are super excited to announce...

  
• 08.03.2021

  233: Geraldine Carter – Building a Practice That You Enjoy

  Geraldine Carter of She Thinks Big Coaching joined us for this special edition of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. While our show usually highlights the career paths of successful accountants, or individuals that started in accounting and have went...

  
• 07.27.2021

  232: Tracy Coenen, CPA – Forensic Accounting & Serving As An Expert Witness

  Tracy Coenen of Sequence Inc, a Chicago-based forensic accounting specialty firm, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. Tracy always knew she wanted to be involved with investigations and the criminal justice system.  In fact,...

  
• 07.20.2021

  231: Michelle Garrison – ‘Engineering’ An Ideal Accounting Career

  Michelle Garrison, a CFO in the Houston area, joined us for this continuation of our “2nd-career-accountant” series of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. Michelle’s career started a little differently than most of our guests.  Michelle was actually a very...

  
• 07.13.2021

  230: Nancy McClelland – The Dancing Accountant!

  Nancy McClelland, a CPA in the Chicago area, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers podcast.  In this episode, we are going to cover many items, probably the most interesting being how she came up...

  
• 06.29.2021

  229: Our Host, Mark Goldman, on “Accountable”

  This week on Where Accountants Go: The Accounting Careers podcast, we rebroadcast a show where  Mark Goldman, the host of Where Accountants Go, was a guest on another podcast by the name of “Accountable”. “Accountable” is an extraordinarily well-produced podcast hosted...

  
• 06.22.2021

  228: Cece Leung of “Dear Accountant”

  Cece Leung, Founder of The Entrepreneur CFO, author of “Dear Accountant”, and host of the podcast by the same name, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. In this episode, we cover many, many topics. ...

  
• 06.15.2021

  227: Dawn Goldberg – CPA Moms Coach

  Dawn Goldberg, CPA and Certified Life Coach (and mother of course), joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast.  In addition to being a coach for CPAs that are mothers, Dawn is also a Community...

  
• 06.08.2021

  226: Adrian Mayse, CPA PhD – When I Grow Up I Want To Be An Accountant

  Dr. Adrian Mayse, CPA, Accounting Department Chair at Howard University, and author of the children’s book “When I Grow Up I Want To Be An Accountant” (!) joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. Like...

  
• 06.01.2021

  225: Robert Nordlander – Former IRS Investigator & Host of the Fraud Fighter Podcast

  Robert Nordlander, a former Senior Special Agent in the Criminal Investigations area of the Internal Revenue Service, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. In this episode, we discuss what originally drew Robert into law...

  
• 05.25.2021

  224.5: CareerTalk – Get Out!

  For this week's episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast, we have a short CareerTalk mini-episode for you covering an important concept specifically for those entering the job market.  Whether for a student internship, your first professional job,...

  
• 05.18.2021

  224: Ryan Lazanis of Future Firm – Creating a Modern, Scalable Practice

  Ryan Lazanis, the Founder of Future Firm and a previous guest on our show, re-joined us this week for a more in-depth discussion of how to build a modern accounting practice that is both scalable and something that fits the...

  
• 05.11.2021

  223: Julio Gonzalez – The Most Interesting Man In Tax

  Julio Gonzalez, the founder of Engineered Tax Services, joined us from Florida for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. We find our guests for the show from many sources, but in this case we just noticed some...

  
• 05.04.2021

  222: Amanda “Jo” Erven – Changing the Internal Audit World

  Amanda “Jo” Erven of Audit.Consulting.Education.,LLC, in the Denver area joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. Jo started her career in public accounting, but quickly moved into internal audit after only a short time.  She...

  
• 04.27.2021

  221: David Peters , CPA – Host of Accountable

  David Peters, a CPA in the Richmond, Virginia area, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers podcast.  David’s career is an excellent example of how when you start with a background in accounting, you can...

  
• 04.20.2021

  220: Diane Yetter – The Original SalesTaxNerd

  Diane Yetter, the Founder of the Sales Tax Institute, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast.  If you aspire to be the true subject matter expert in your field, whatever that may be, you...

  
• 04.13.2021

  219: Stephen Westbrook – CPA & Not-For-Profit CEO

  Stephen Westbrook, a CPA that has served a few non-profits as their CEO, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. Steve’s career started as many do.  He initially worked for a couple accounting firms, and...

  
• 04.06.2021

  218: Brian Goldbard – From TV Production to Accounting!

  As a part of our “2nd-career accountant” series, Brian Goldbard in the Dallas, Texas, area joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. Brian enjoys a successful career in private equity accounting now, and has done...

  
• 03.30.2021

  217: Gale Crosley of Crosley Company

  Gale Crosley, a CPA that has spent the majority of her career in sales, marketing, and product development, and now advises the nation’s top accounting firms on such issues, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting...

  
• 03.23.2021

  216: Ann Margaret Johnston CPA – Going All In With A Niche

  Ann Margaret Johnston, a CPA in Georgia with a unique niche for her practice in professional poker players (!), joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. As with many guests, Ann Margaret was referred by...

  
• 03.16.2021

  215: Bill Von Fumetti: Finding Accounting And Helping Others Achieve Their Dream

  Bill Von Fumetti, a CPA and the owner of Booming Bookkeeping Business, joined us for this special “2nd-career” edition of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. Had we not already decided to call these our “2nd career” series, we would...

  
• 03.09.2021

  214: Brian Henderson – Knocking It Out of The Park In Accounting

  Brian Henderson in the Austin area joined us for this “2nd career” edition of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers podcast.  This is one of our “second career” episodes meaning that the guest started in a different career first, and...

  
• 03.02.2021

  213: Learn What Good Looks Like

  For this episode, we actually revisit an idea from a very recent guest - Chris Hervochon. Due to very bad weather conditions in Texas, we got behind on recording episodes.  However, as luck would have it, there was a concept that...

  
• 02.23.2021

  212: Maxene Bardwell – A Career in Internal Audit

  Maxene Bardwell, a highly-accomplished professional in the field of Internal Audit from the Maryland area, joined us for this week’s episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers podcast.  If you have ever considered moving your own career in the...

  
• 02.16.2021

  211: Chris Hervochon – The Benefits of a Niche, and the Realities of Professional Golfing

  Chris Hervochon, a CPA in South Carolina that has developed a niche business in the area of providing accounting services for marketing agencies and creatives, joined us this week for Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. In addition to having...

  
• 02.09.2021

  210: Carl Peterson – Career Insights & The ‘Small Firm Lifestyle’

  Carl Peterson, the VP of Small Firm Interests with AICPA, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers podcast.  In this episode, we cover Carl’s not-quite-traditional start to his career, his many years of successfully running...

  
• 02.02.2021

  209: How To Advance To Partner

  In this special episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast, we pieced together five interviews with five distinguished accounting firm partners in order to bring you a special resource. Our guests came from firms ranging in size from boutique,...

  
• 01.26.2021

  208: Tasha Fox – CPA and Controller for the Osage Nation

  Tasha Fox, a CPA that was recently recognized by CPA Practice Advisor on the list of Most Powerful Women in Accounting, joined us for this week’s episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. This was a first for our...

  
• 01.19.2021

  207: Carolyn Smith, CPA AEP CAP – A Unique Exit Planning Niche

  Carolyn Smith, Senior Partner with C3 Financial Partners in Texas, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. Carolyn’s career started as many do… in public accounting.  And in fact, she spent the first 30 years...

  
• 01.12.2021

  206: Kelly Boswell, CPA – Working in the Tax Controversy Specialty

  Kelly Boswell, the Director of Tax Controversy with the San Antonio based accounting firm ADKF, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. Kelly accepted her new role as Director of Tax Controversy early last year,...

  
• 01.05.2021

  205: Jose Campos – National Firm Success, Diversity, & Serving the Profession

  Jose Campos, a Partner with Deloitte in California, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. We were referred to Jose by a listener that heard him speak on the subject of diversity in the profession,...

  
• 12.22.2020

  204: Ron Baker of the Verasage Institute and The Soul of Enterprise

  Ron Baker, Founder of the Verasage Institute and one of my absolute favorite podcast hosts, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, The Accounting Careers Podcast. If you haven’t heard The Soul Of Enterprise podcast, you are missing out. ...

  
• 12.15.2020

  203: Ben Loggins – Building a Practice, Plus a Discussion about Figure Skating & Roswell!

  Ben Loggins of Loggins, Kern, McCombs in Atlanta, Georgia, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast.  In this episode, we discuss the growth and progression of Ben’s firm, and also his outside-of-work interest in...

  
• 12.08.2020

  202: Jaclyn Badeau of Badeau Consulting: Going the Extra M.I.L.E.

  Jaclyn Badeau of Badeau Consulting joined us for this week’s episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast.  Jaclyn’s career spans public accounting, large industry, global travel positions, and now her own consulting practice.  There is something here for...

  
• 12.01.2020

  201: Joey Ryan – CFO & Co-Founder of Gilded, Simplifying Crypto B2B Payments

  Joey Ryan, the CFO and Co-Founder of a company working in the blockchain solution space, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. We haven’t touched on blockchain much yet on this show with the exception...

  
• 11.17.2020

  200: Celebrating 200 Episodes of Where Accountants Go!

  It’s hard to believe that the time flew by so fast, but we are celebrating our 200th episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. If you’ve been a listener for a while, you know we’ve changed several things along...

  
• 11.10.2020

  199: Greg Kyte – Controller, CPA, & Comedian!

  Greg Kyte, a CPA in Utah that does stand-up comedy, serves as host for several conferences, and still works his full-time day job as a Controller, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, The Accounting Careers Podcast. I first...

  
• 11.03.2020

  198: Stephen Oliver – Focusing Your Career in Forensics, Litigation Support, and M&A

  Stephen Oliver, a CPA that focused his career early on in consulting areas such as forensic projects, litigation support, and merger/acquisition analysis, joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast. I’ve personally known Stephen for many...

  
• 10.27.2020

  197: Twyla Verhelst – Head of the Accountant Channel at FreshBooks

  Twyla Verhelst joined us for this episode of Where Accountants Go, the Accounting Careers Podcast.  As you would expect, we discussed FreshBooks and how that accounting solution has expanded in recent years, but we also cover Twyla’s earlier career history...