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Where Accountants Go - The Accounting Careers Podcast

by Mark Goldman CPA

Careers in Accounting

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234.5: Out Sick!

2m · Published 17 Aug 10:00
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 you haven't seen our Classes section and upcoming Excel and Tax courses, check out www.mgrar.com/classes See you in 2 weeks! Mark  

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

7m · Published 10 Aug 10:00
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 that now that training is available to anyone, anytime, anywhere! If you are an entry-level accountant that wants to learn CPA-firm-level tax skills, this course is for you. If you are an experienced accountant, but without tax background, this course can help you learn CPA-firm-level tax preparation skills as well. If you have had a tax internship or two, but didn’t feel like you learned everything you would like for a strong foundation, this course is for you as well. (Note:  This course is NOT for experienced tax preparers with 2+ years of experience.  It is meant to mirror on-the-job type internship training, so it’s more appropriate for less experienced students.) If you are interested in learning more about the content of our Individual Tax Bootcamp ON—DEMAND, click here:  MGR On-Demand Courses.

233: Geraldine Carter – Building a Practice That You Enjoy

38m · Published 03 Aug 10:00
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 on to blossom that knowledge into new, unique career paths, sometimes we produce a special episode focused on helping accountants with their entrepreneurial endeavors.  This episode is exactly that. For this week’s show, our guest, Geraldine Carter, drills down on the issues that make some accountants’ entrepreneurial dreams turn more into nightmares down the road.  Many of us ultimately would like to have our own practice, but often the freedom we think we are going to achieve doesn’t become a reality.  We end up working for our practice instead of it working for us. In this episode, Geraldine covers many of the pitfalls that a self-employed accountant can encounter, and how to fix those issues so that you can thoroughly enjoy running your practice, and so that it meets all your needs and expectations as well. For more information on Geraldine Carter, please visit her website at: Business Coaching for CPA's & Small Firms | She Thinks Big Coaching If you enjoy this episode with Geraldine, please also check out:  Sarah Elliott and Mariette Martinez To listen to this interview with Geraldine Carter, please use the player below:

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

33m · Published 27 Jul 10:00
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, early in her life she dreamed of being a Prison Warden!  However, after taking a class in financial crime investigation, she realized that she enjoyed the analysis that comes with such an investigation, and decided to pursue a career investigating financial crimes.  She continued with her Criminology major in school, but also got her MBA with enough hours to sit for the CPA exam.  She passed the exam, spent a short time at Arthur Andersen, then a few years at a small forensic accounting firm, and then decided to launch her own business – Sequence Inc. For the past 20 years, Tracy has operated her company basically as a solo entrepreneur, with the exception of a short time earlier on that she talks about in the interview.  She chooses to keep the firm small from a team standpoint because it allows her to focus on the activities that she most enjoys – digging into the details and doing the investigation itself. Another valuable portion of this episode is our discussion of what it takes to be a good expert witness in trials.  Tracy has well-developed skills in that area, and shares some of her insights into that role in this interview.  It’s definitely something you don’t want to miss. If you enjoy this episode, please also check out:  Kelly Richmond-Pope and Fred Olivares To listen in on this podcast episode with Tracy Coenen, please use the player below:

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

41m · Published 20 Jul 10:00
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 successful electrical engineer in her former career, and as she got further into the details of running her own electrical contracting company, she realized she had a talent for understanding the financial side of the business.  As time went by and the contracting world was becoming more competitive, she decided to move her career in the direction of accounting, completing a Masters degree in Accounting and obtaining a consulting position within the field.  Her consulting work fast-tracked her into many career-building opportunities, and eventually she landed in the role where she is today:  the CFO for a healthcare organization in Houston. If you are a 2nd-career-accountant yourself, or are about to be, you will definitely enjoy this interview.  Also, if you want more insight into how an accounting education can help you be a better overall business advisor, then this show is for you as well. Other episodes you may enjoy will include:  Robin Thieme and Brian Henderson To listen in on this interview with Michelle Garrison, please use the player below:

230: Nancy McClelland – The Dancing Accountant!

37m · Published 13 Jul 10:00
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 with the name for her practice – “The Dancing Accountant”! As you might expect, Nancy’s early background was in music.  Her mother was very creative, and her father was the more analytical one.  While in college, Nancy tried many majors, but eventually chose music.  She very early on landed a role in administration with an arts school, and realized that she also had talent inherited from her father as well – that of organization and analysis.  It was through combining both her creative side and analytical side that caused her to excel in accounting / administration roles with music-related companies.  It wasn’t long though until she realized that all small businesses have similar issues to that which she was encountering in the music world, and so she then decided to start her practice – Nancy McClelland LLC.  If you want to hear the full story of how she moved from that initial name for her practice to “The Dancing Accountant”, you’ll need to listen to the audio portion in order to her it from Nancy’s own lips.  It’s a very interesting story. To find out more about Nancy’s firm, please visit:  The Dancing Accountant If you enjoy this episode, please also check out:  John Garrett and Ann Margaret Johnson To listen in on this interview with The Dancing Accountant, Nancy McClelland, please use the player below:

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

30m · Published 29 Jun 10:00
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 by David Peters, a prior guest on our show.  In this episode, David interviews Mark on aspects of the job market, hiring for accounting professionals, and career management.  David did such a great job with the interview as well as the production of the show, that we wanted to re-run it so it could benefit you (our listeners) as well. If you’d like to hear other episodes of “Accountable”, please visit their website by clicking here. To hear David’s own interview on this episode, visit: 221: David Peters , CPA – Host of Accountable | MGR Accounting Recruiters (mgrar.com) To listen in on this interview Mark did with David Peters on the Accountable podcast, please use the player below:

228: Cece Leung of “Dear Accountant”

37m · Published 22 Jun 10:00
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.  Cece’s early career was somewhat unique for our show in that she worked in mutual fund accounting and other fields having to do with the financial capital markets.  Eventually though, she joined a start-up in the financial services field and that launched her into the world of smaller businesses and entrepreneurial endeavors, and her vision of the business world was widened.  Up until this point, she had lived primarily in large-corporate-America, or more appropriately the global corporate marketplace.  However, when she joined this start-up as their Controller, she was forced to widen her knowledge base as she was not as focused in one area as she had been previously. That experience, plus her ‘side hustle’ as she describes it, positioned her well to eventually start her own entrepreneurial CFO business.  In addition, she perceived a lack of information for younger individuals regarding all the options that are available for accounting professionals, so she started her podcast and wrote a book by the same name highlighting some of the amazing careers of accounting professionals she had come in contact with.  That book and podcast are titled, “Dear Accountant”. If you are interested in the financial markets, a career that mixes both finance and accounting, or helping smaller businesses with finance issues, you will enjoy this story. Also, make sure to check out both Cece’s book and podcast (click on the appropriate link). If you enjoy this episode, please make sure to check out:  Adriana Carpenter and Kim Nourie To listen to this interview with Cece Leung, please use the player below:

227: Dawn Goldberg – CPA Moms Coach

47m · Published 15 Jun 10:00
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 Manager for CPA MOMS and hosts their podcast as well! Dawn was introduced to accounting as many of us are, through her high school bookkeeping class.  She had a great teacher that informed her it was a wonderful career path ‘for a woman’, and therefore she decided to pursue it as her chosen career field.  Ironically, after working for several years in the Big 4, she decided to go ahead and leave to be a full-time, stay-at-home mother for a while in order to not miss out on some of the small moments that she treasured.  (Although many of the partners she worked under had been understanding, there were a few that were not so understanding, so it made it a good choice to take some time off at that particular point.) Upon re-entering the workforce part-time and later going through a divorce, she was researching different self-help resources when she decided that maybe that could be a new career path for her… helping others through what she had been through in both her career and her own personal life.  It was at that point that she decided to study to be a Certified Life Coach. Fast forward several years and Dawn has joined both her podcast and overall professional endeavors with the CPA MOMS organization, and she coaches ladies through the challenges that come with being both a CPA and a mother in today’s workplace. Make sure you listen all the way to the end on this one as Dawn shares some very valuable and interesting career tips for us in our post-Covid world.  I found a lot of truth in her perspective of what the workplace is like now and how it may become in the near future. If you enjoy this episode, please make sure to also check out:  Amanda Aguillard and Elena Levario For Dawn’s own podcast, visit Podcast — CPA MOMS® (cpa-moms.com) To listen in on this interview with Dawn Goldberg, please use the player below:

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

37m · Published 08 Jun 10:00
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 many of our guests over the years, this guest was suggested by one of you, the listeners!  When I received the suggestion I was obviously intrigued, but when I looked on Amazon for Adrian’s book and saw the quality, I couldn’t help but ask him to come on the show. In this episode, we cover Adrian’s early career of course, but then we get into two very informative & fun discussions about 1) what it takes to get your PhD in accounting, and 2) how he decided to and ultimately did publish his book, “When I Grow Up I Want To Be An Accountant”.  In a nutshell, “When I Grow Up I Want To Be An Accountant” is a children’s book focused on teaching young children about the profession of accounting, as well as showing diversity in the profession – both of which are incredibly important.  I truly feel that Adrian has done both the profession and society overall a good deed by putting this book out into the marketplace, and I know it will make many people’s lives better over time. You can find Adrian’s book at: When I Grow Up I Want To Be... An Accountant: Mayse CPA, Dr. Adrian L., Perryman, Reshonda, Ross, Frank K.: 9798599300236: Amazon.com: Books If you enjoy this episode, please also check out:  Ed Polansky and John Garrett To listen in on this interview with Dr. Adrian Mayse, please use the player below:

Where Accountants Go - The Accounting Careers Podcast has 277 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 170:46:49. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 21st 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on April 6th, 2024 11:21.

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