Journal of Accountancy Podcast
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Journal of Accountancy Podcast
7h ago
Tom Hood, CPA/CITP, CGMA, executive vice president–Business Growth and Engagement at AICPA & CIMA, together as the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, has his finger on the pulse of the profession. He’s traveled all over, talking to everyone from corporate CFOs to newly minted accountants and accounting apprentices, and he’s sharing some of the insights gained from those discussions on this episode of the JofA podcast.
Hood, who has been in his current role for three years after a long stint as CEO of the Maryland Association of CPAs, takes time to reflect ..read more
Journal of Accountancy Podcast
1w ago
Ken Witt, CPA, CGMA, AICPA & CIMA associate director–Management Accounting Research and Development, explains in this JofA podcast episode why finance decision-makers in the first-quarter Business & Industry Economic Outlook Survey are more optimistic now compared with the end of 2023.
Witt summarizes the survey results, including CPA decision-makers’ expectations for revenue and profit increases and the top challenges facing them and their businesses.
What you’ll learn from this episode:
· A breakdown of sentiment about the domestic econ ..read more
Journal of Accountancy Podcast
1w ago
The AICPA & CIMA CFO Conference begins April 24 in Charleston, S.C.
Sandy Sloyer, CPA, CGMA, and Misty Geer, CPA, CGMA are long-time members of the conference planning committee, and they joined the JofA podcast to discuss how priorities have changes for finance leaders over the past few years — and how the conference agenda has been adapted as a result.
Here’s a link to the list of conference sessions.
What you’ll learn from this episode:
· Attendance options for the April conference.
· How the ..read more
Journal of Accountancy Podcast
1w ago
Melanie Lauridsen, vice president–Tax Policy & Advocacy for the AICPA, returns as a guest on the JofA podcast to update listeners on the focus areas of tax advocacy.
Her team is paying close attention to employee retention credit claims, beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements, and IRS contingency plans in the event of a government shutdown.
Resources:
January advocacy conversation with Lauridsen on the JofA podcast
JofA coverage of the federal court opinion holding the Corporate Transparency Act unconstitutional and the appeal of that court d ..read more
Journal of Accountancy Podcast
2w ago
The factors contributing to a decline in the accounting talent pool are many, and so are the strategies to address the issue.
In this podcast episode, Sue Coffey, CPA, CGMA, AICPA & CIMA’s CEO–Public Accounting, explains what early research has shown about why students are showing less interest in accounting. She also details the steps that multiple entities, including the National Pipeline Advisory Group (NPAG), are taking to grow the pipeline.
In the interview, Coffey discusses CPA licensure, the 150-hour educational requirement, CPA practice mobility, and other issues important to ..read more
Journal of Accountancy Podcast
1M ago
Wassia Kamon, CPA, was a featured speaker at the Future of Finance Summit in Orlando late last year, and she joined the JofA podcast from the event to discuss how leaders can overcome their own biases to be more inclusive.
Kamon, vice president of finance at the Low Income Investment Fund in Atlanta, points out that with social media and other commonly used applications, it’s very easy for us to choose our own news, friends, and interest areas — or have algorithms choose the focus areas for us.
That can be detrimental to people expanding their understanding of the world and learning abo ..read more
Journal of Accountancy Podcast
1M ago
Bring together three of the top experts in the accounting technology space, and you’re bound to learn something (often, many things) new. That’s been the premise of the JofA Accounting Technology Roundtable since 2011. It held true again in 2024.
After discussing artificial intelligence and automation in Part 1 of the roundtable, published Wednesday, the three panelists — Automata Practice Development’s Wesley Hartman, IntrapriseTechKnowlogies’ Donny Shimamoto, CPA/CITP, CGMA, and Boomer Consulting’s Amanda Wilkie — turned their attention to several other topics, including one that is ne ..read more
Journal of Accountancy Podcast
1M ago
Darryl Bonner of Connecticut-based Liberty Bank is part of a pioneering finance apprenticeship program. He’s in the midst of a rotation through several departments at the bank, and he’s taking steps to receive the CGMA designation as well.
Bonner is one of the first apprentices in the AICPA’s Professional Apprenticeship for Finance Business Partners program, which in 2022 was approved by the U.S. Department of Labor.
On this podcast episode, Bonner discusses why he was drawn to Liberty Bank, how he mixes his day job with the CGMA Finance Leadership Program, and what title he seeks to achieve i ..read more
Journal of Accountancy Podcast
1M ago
The practice of accounting is increasingly tied to technology, the T in the acronym STEM (science, technology, engineering, math). That tie-in is one reason the AICPA is advocating for accounting to be federally recognized as a STEM education field.
Two AICPA leaders join this episode of the JofA podcast to discuss the STEM topic: Jan Taylor, CPA, CGMA, academic in residence and senior director–Academic & Student Engagement, and Lauren Pfingstag-Vahey, director–Congressional & Political Affairs.
Resources
AICPA & CIMA resource page, Accounting is STEM
JofA coverage of AICPA s ..read more
Journal of Accountancy Podcast
1M ago
Dan Crumb, CPA (inactive), CGMA, is a repeat guest on the JofA podcast, because, as CFO and executive vice president of the Kansas City Chiefs, his team is back in the Super Bowl for the second year in a row and the fourth time in five seasons.
It’s a run he’d like to see continue and one that has presented the franchise with expanded revenue opportunities.
In this episode, Crumb discusses the NFL’s first online-only playoff game, how the team’s finance function uses artificial intelligence (AI), and how he maintains balance in his life. And, of course, we asked him about Taylor Swift.
Super B ..read more