From Cash Bags to Casinos to Audits: Recounting How First Jobs Shape Us | ARC

“As an auditor, you learn how non‑financial events end up having a financial impact.”

Accounting ARC
With Liz Mason, Byron Patrick, and Donny Shimamoto
Center for Accounting Transformation

On this episode of Accounting ARC, Liz Mason, CPA; Byron Patrick, CPA.CITP, CGMA; and Donny Shimamoto, CPA.CITP, CGMA, revisit their first accounting jobs. The conversation underscores how early exposure to operations, technology, and industry economics cultivates the judgment accountants need to interpret business realities. 

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From hustling down the beach with bags of money to deploying field laptops with new tech to counting millions of dollars over 15 hours, each host shares a unique accounting beginning, but all have the same clear messaging.