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 this 5 year time period has been incredibly fun and humbling. I’ve been so grateful for all the guests that said ‘yes’ to…

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 his 1900+ Youtube videos on accounting topics, you definitely should go back in our archives to episode 107 wher…

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 topics for accounting professionals on this show, and entrepreneurship-done-well is definitely one …

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 the entire labor market, and the accounting profession is no exception. The market was alread…

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 been with EY approaching 18 years and is a partner with the firm. However, we didn’t realize all the …

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, then this is the episode for you. Tom very accidentally got into th…

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 of staying at the same company and continuing to build your career at that one organization…

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 conversation about managing the client base in a public accounting firm. If you are in business alrea…

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 the way to starting and merging a firm. And we even cover a story of fraud in the middle of the interview! Many, many…

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 happened, is happening, and will continue to happen within the accounting pr…

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/classesS…

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-…

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 …

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…

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 i…

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. …

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…

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 othe…

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…

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 t…

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 enforcement, how he ended up landing the position with the IRS, and some key cases h…

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, or even if you are simply looking for something new, the idea we cover in this s…

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 life you want to lead.Ryan started his career in a typical staff accountant role like many of us do, and even tried both publi…

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 intriguing content online and decided to delve deeper and find out more. Julio Gonzalez’ early career took hi…

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 knew that she wanted to go deeper into helping one organization than typically poss…

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 go almost any direction you would like, or even many if you prefer!David was an unlikely accountant per se, in t…

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 will really enjoy this particular episode.Diane’s specialization started much differently than you may imagine. She didn…

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 then moved on to one of his audit clients. In this case however, it was with a small non-profit that had…

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 very well in just a few years, but prior to that he spent 17 years in television production beli…

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 Careers Podcast.Gale’s career has definitely turned out differently than her original master plan, but as we …

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 a former guest of the show, and actually one of her former employers – Ben Loggins. When Ben contacted us…

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 probably have to do something different since accounting was Bill’s 4th or 5th career choice dependi…

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 then migrated later on into accounting. For Brian, it was professional baseball!Brian’s boyhood dream was to p…

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 Chris had shared in his recent episode with us that made for a good CareerTalk mini-episode. It was great timing for sure!…

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 direction of audit, or internal audit specifically, this episode will be extremely valuable fo…

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 a thorough discussion of the benefits of having a specialty, we also talk for a while about…

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 his own practice with his wife whom is also a CPA, and his eventual transition into the Small…

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, niche local firms, to multi-office firms, to a Big 4 firm as well. The partners that g…

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 show in that we have never had an accounting executive from a Native American tribe on our program, so we took the …

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 of her career with the same accounting firm, minus a one-year detour into industry. During that tim…

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, so we invited her on the show to talk more about that specific specialty. “Tax controversy” spe…

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, and we certainly were not disappointed. Jose has had an amazing career, staying with Deloitte all the way fr…

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. Ron Baker co-hosts the program with another brilliant thinker, Ed Kless, and provides some of the mos…

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 the area of Roswell history and supporting US figure skating!We initially asked Ben to be on the…

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 everyone!Jaclyn’s career started very early. She actually had her first accou…

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 of an episode or two, so this was a refreshing topic. Joey started his career in public accounting, but …

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 the way. We’ve changed our intro section a few times, our outro section many times, our website address, and even our …

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 encountered Greg through the “mind-numbingly repetitive” commercials he has done for one of my own personal favo…

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 years, but even I learned quite a bit from this interview.Stephen started…

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 as well. Twyla has had an amazing journey, spanning typical accounting roles, to starting seve…