Top Management Consultant to the CPA Industry [Interview] with Marc Rosenberg of the Rosenberg Associates

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Marc Rosenberg has served as a management consultant to CPA firms for over 20 years. What an interesting job! He spends most of his time traveling the country and helping CPA firms improve their partner compensation models, CPA firm mergers, succession planning, CPA firm retreats, and more. He also runs a “management consultant to the…

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Stay At Home Mother To CPA Firm Partner [PODCAST] with Nancy Ridenour, PDR CPA’s

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Nancy is a CPA firm partner at PDR CPA’s and spoke a number of years ago when I was at the University of Tampa. She has a great…

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Interview with a Chief Accounting Officer [PODCAST] with Greg Leiter, Chief Accounting Officer at Cott Corporation

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Greg Leiter, CPA, serves as the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer, and Director at Cott Beverages Limited. Mr. Leiter has been Senior Vice President of Cott Corporation since April 2008. Mr. Leiter has been Assistant Secretary of Cott Corporation since December 5, 2007 and serves as its Chief Accounting Officer. He…

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One Of The Most Powerful Women In Accounting [PODCAST] with Geni Whitehouse, Author, Speaker, Trainer at EvenaNerd.com

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Geni has a great story and she was an awesome guest on the podcast! She is a CPA, author, speaker, blogger, and partner at a CPA firm. Geni has a very interesting background and she has won a number of awards over the years including: 2013 One of 25 Most Powerful Women in Accounting – CPA Practice…

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“Sometimes I would rather have to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission.” [PODCAST] with Richard Levychin, Managing Partner of KBL LLP

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Tell us a little bit about your background. > Managing Partner of KBL, LLP CPAs and Advisors > Graduated from Baruch College and started his  career with a Big Four CPA firm > Started his own firm at the age of 28 Tell us about one experience in your current position that just blew you…

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How Losing Your Job Can Be A Step Forward [PODCAST] with Maria Morales, Partner at Clifton Larson Allen

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Maria is an Audit Partner at Clifton Larson Allen and has been in public accounting for twelve years, serving public and private companies in industries such as manufacturing, third-party administrative services, software, health care, biotechnologies, and employee benefits. Previously, Morales worked in private accounting in the aeronautical industry. She is one of the founding board…

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“The dream begins most of the time with the teacher who believes in you” [PODCAST] with Jody Padar

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Jody Padar joined her father’s firm four years ago, bringing her expertise in the areas of taxation, QuickBooks, and small business accounting. As one of the profession’s emerging thought leaders, Jody has transitioned New Vision to next-generation status by adopting advanced technologies and best practices that support web-based client services and allow the firm to…

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Started his own accounting firm from scratch, with only two years of experience [PODCAST] with W. Michael Hsu

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Courage.

That’s what I think about when I finished recording this podcast with Michael. It’s an incredible story of someone who knew he wanted something different from his job, and made it happen.

Incredibly, in building Deep Sky and only two years after working in public accounting, he went three years without a paycheck. But…

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“When you get your first check from a client, that’s a big deal” Podcast with A-lign’s Scott Price on starting his own firm, TWICE!

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Remember the stories about Enron and Arthur Andersen? Normally you hear about the old Anderson employees who were out of work in the course of a couple of weeks, and then ended up working on the same clients at another firm (often one of the now “Big 4″). But, Scott Price’s story was a little…

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