FLP, the Finance Leadership Podcast

"The single pivot point we SHOULD be considering today is the disruption of the finance function in the digital era". This week’s episode is all about becoming an 'agile' accountant, and our guest is a man who knows all about agility in a fast-changing world. Aubrey Joachim FCMA CGMA MBA was the first CIMA President from outside the UK and Ireland. He discusses finance transformation, agile accounting and why he thinks it's time we dropped the word 'accountant' from our lexicon - because the word simply doesn't convey the scope and pivotal importance of today's professionals in the finance function. You might be interested in attending his March 12th 2021 webinar here. Resources. Use these links to find out more about this topic, or to access free and paid-for resources to implement in your own team or organisation. Consider Aubrey's webinars on Agile Finance Budgeting and Forecasting: The Shift from Traditional to Dynamic (February 26th 2021) Move from Annual Budgeting to Rolling Forecasts with Data and Analytics (March 12th 2021)  Download the "Agile Finance Revealed" research from Oracle and the AICPA & CIMA. Visit dedicated coronavirus online resource centres for our AICPA and CIMA networks. Our Guest. Based in Sydney, Australia, Aubrey Joachim FCMA CGMA MBA is a past President of CIMA and owner of Leading Edge Change.  Share. Know someone who should hear this podcast? Click on these links to automatically share this episode with colleagues and friends. Recommend it to your LinkedIn connections, send to Twitter, auto-share on your Facebook page, or simply tell someone via email. Social. Use #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews or @CIMA_News. About Our Podcast. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, we hope that the insights will be consistently useful. Get in touch. How did you discover our podcast? Where do you listen? What would you like to hear more of? Finance pro or not, we're keen to know what you think. Email us here. ©2018-2020 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA)

"Data is the life blood of finance ...IT Logic is the set of rules to leverage and control that data." Finance professionals need to be able to explain complex things to other people, so this conversation could really help. Kristen Hughes is Associate Director of Technology with the AICPA & CIMA.  She is joined from Chicago by David Kovar, and from Virginia by Amanda Wilkie, one of this podcast's very first guests from back in mid-2018. Amanda and David are members of the Information, Management and Technology Advisory Committee of the AICPA.  Talking Points. This conversation touches on these and other topics and considerations: Why you should care about IT Logic What are its key components? How to apply class-leading IT Logic solutions for your organisation and your clients. Resources. Use these links to find out more about this topic, or to access free guidance and resources to implement in your own team or organisation. Consider our "Fundamentals of IT Logic" webinar Mar 16, 2021 (discounts for members available).  Find technology and cybersecurity resources on the AICPA Technology Hub. Visit dedicated coronavirus online resource centres for our AICPA and CIMA networks. The Voices. Connect with the people behind the conversation. Kristen Hughes is an Associate Director with Advisory Services and Credentialing at the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants. In addition, she leads the Information Management & Technology Assurance (IMTA) division of the AICPA.  David Kovar leads and delivers strategic technology projects primarily for Corporate and Asset Management Tax departments and Accounting firms. His leadership experience includes serving as a Big 4 Partner, Chief Technology Strategist, Tax and Accounting Technology Leader, Innovation Leader, and Technology Officer. He is currently interim Chief Executive Officer for Tax Prodigy, a fast-growing corporate income tax technology company Amanda Wilkie is a Consultant with Boomer Consulting. She has two decades of technology experience, with 13 years driving change and process improvement through innovative technology solutions working across firms of varying sizes in the public accounting profession. She is a recognized expert in the profession as a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and Certified Blockchain Solution Architect.  Share. Know someone who should hear this podcast? Click on these links to automatically share this episode with colleagues and friends. Recommend it to your LinkedIn connections, send to Twitter, auto-share on your Facebook page, or simply tell someone via email. Social. Use #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews or @CIMA_News. About Our Podcast. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, we hope that the insights will be consistently useful. Get in touch. How did you discover our podcast? Where do you listen? What would you like to hear more of? Finance pro or not, we're keen to know what you think. Email us here. ©2018-2020 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA)

"ANYONE can use a smart contract, but it's going to be in the context of blockchain technology." Accounting Professor Cory Campbell joins us from Indiana, USA, to discuss Smart Contracts and their dynamic connection with other leading technologies like blockchain and cybersecurity. Why do they matter to today’s businesses? What are the elements of Smart Contract technology? And where does the vital role of the accountant fit into it all?  Resources. Use these links to find out more about this topic, or to access free and paid-for resources to implement in your own team or organisation. Cory Campbell's blog article on 'Emerging Technologies in Accounting" Download this free AICPA & CIMA report on "Blockchain Technology and Its Potential Impact on the Audit and Assurance Profession". Visit dedicated coronavirus online resource centres for our AICPA and CIMA networks. Our Guest. Cory Campbell (CPA, CFE, CGMA, Ph.D.) is an assistant professor of accounting at Indiana State University. His teaching and research interests lie at the intersection between accounting and technology. He facilitates CPE workshops for the Indiana CPA Society on various emerging technologies and has been a subject matter expert for the AIPCA on blockchain technology. Share. Know someone who should hear this podcast? Click on these links to automatically share this episode with colleagues and friends. Recommend it to your LinkedIn connections, send to Twitter, auto-share on your Facebook page, or simply tell someone via email. Social. Use #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews or @CIMA_News. About Our Podcast. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, we hope that the insights will be consistently useful. Get in touch. How did you discover our podcast? Where do you listen? What would you like to hear more of? Finance pro or not, we're keen to know what you think. Email us here. ©2018-2020 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA)

"We think of just the initial signing of a vendor to perform a service, but we don't do a good job of monitoring ...THEIR vendors" Our first featured Technology Advisory episode of 2021 is hosted by Audrey Katcher of Rubin Brown LLC.  She's joined by Torpey White of Wipfli LLC, and Mardhani (Danny) Wirapratama of Celestica Inc. They share definitions, actions plans and ways of framing practical discussions about managing risk in supply chains involving vendors, providers, and partners. Talking Points. This conversation touches on these and other topics and considerations: Business Partner Supply Chain Risks. Definitions to frame the discussions. Relevant risks today. A recap of practical action plans. Resources. Use these links to find out more about this topic, or to access free guidance and resources to implement in your own team or organisation. Explore AICPA & CIMA resources on SOC for Supply Chain – Description Criteria, Backgrounder, Information for Management and Guides-  Hear this Vendor Risk Management Podcast from our archive. Consider joining us for the "Redefining Supply Chain Risk Assessment" (upcoming webcast). Read about Supply Chain Risk Management on McKinsey.com, and about Resilience in Global Supply Chains on the Boston Consulting Group website at BCG.com.  Visit dedicated coronavirus online resource centres for our AICPA and CIMA networks. The Voices. Connect with the people behind the conversation. Hosted by Audrey Katcher CPA, CISA, CITP. Based in St Louis, USA, Audrey is a Rubin Brown Business Advisory Partner and leads their IT Risk Services practices. She has over 20 years of public accounting experience in several industries. Mardhani (Danny) Wirapratama is SAP senior FICO consultant at Celestica, Inc. Based in Toronto, Canada, he focuses on the IT integration of ERP and SEM systems. Torpey White CPA, CITP, CISA, CGMA is based in Philadelphia, USA. He is a Partner in Wipfli LLP’s risk advisory and forensic services practice, with more than 25 years of experience in public accounting and the private sector. Share. Know someone who should hear this podcast? Click on these links to automatically share this episode with colleagues and friends. Recommend it to your LinkedIn connections, send to Twitter, auto-share on your Facebook page, or simply tell someone via email. Social. Use #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews or @CIMA_News. About Our Podcast. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, we hope that the insights will be consistently useful. Get in touch. How did you discover our podcast? Where do you listen? What would you like to hear more of? Finance pro or not, we're keen to know what you think. Email us here. ©2018-2020 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA)

"It addresses fundamental questions about whether it's killing the way we work... or actually creating a world of new possibilities." What's your company's strategy to develop and maximise the resources provided by what some call the "alternative workforce", but most simply refer to as "gig" workers? Board-level strategist and integrated thinker Samantha Griffiths (BSc (Hons), MBA, FCCA) of Sagenius joins in from her base in Birmingham, UK. Sam started her career in a large international bank and transitioned to a role in the Treasury for a large multinational engineering business before working for several years at the London Stock Exchange. She talked to AICPA & CIMA's Sandeep Rao shortly before the end of 2020.  Resources. Use these links to find out more about this topic, or to access free and paid-for resources to implement in your own team or organisation. Take your understanding further with our new course "GIG Economy: Developing Your Alternative Workforce Strategy". Explore more via our portal at future.aicpa.org Visit dedicated coronavirus online resource centres for our AICPA and CIMA networks. Our Guest. Samantha Griffiths is a consultant and trainer in corporate governance and the role of the company director. As a Director of Sagenius Ltd, a niche consulting firm, she assists clients at Board level to communicate their investor appeal and navigate the narrative (including governance) reporting landscape. Building upon her extensive experience of narrative reporting and investor relations, she is currently working with a number of listed companies on the FRC Lab’s Business Model reporting initiative. Share. Know someone who should hear this podcast? Click on these links to automatically share this episode with colleagues and friends. Recommend it to your LinkedIn connections, send to Twitter, auto-share on your Facebook page, or simply tell someone via email. Social. Use #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews or @CIMA_News. About Our Podcast. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, we hope that the insights will be consistently useful. Get in touch. How did you discover our podcast? Where do you listen? What would you like to hear more of? Finance pro or not, we're keen to know what you think. Email us here. ©2018-2020 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA)

""With all of the disruption going on around the world, businesses are going more than ever to their finance people." It takes a wide-ranging professional skillset to link the CGMA designation, the AICPA annual series of CFO Conferences, and the role of 'Chief Turmoil Officer'. Our guest, Ken Witt, joins us to do just that. He explains what the CGMA accounting designation is, outlines the AICPA's 'CFO Conference' events for 2021, and introduces an excerpt from the first in a series of conference rebroadcasts. In that clip, Steve Adams from Gartner presents the concept of 'Chief Turmoil Officer'. Resources. Use these links to find out more about this topic, or to access free guidance and resources to implement in your own team or organisation. Want to watch the 'Chief Turmoil Officer' webcast? Register here.  Explore the AICPA Store's mix of free and chargeable resources designed to assist and develop the CFOs of today and tomorrow.  See the 'fish' infographic referenced by Gartner's Steve Adams. Visit dedicated coronavirus online resource centres for our AICPA and CIMA networks. Our Guests. Ken Witt is a Senior Manager with the AICPA & CIMA in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is Senior Manager on the Management Accounting and Member Engagement team, and Staff liaison to the Americas Region Advisory Panel, the Association committee representing members in business. Connect with him on Linkedin. Share. Know someone who should hear this podcast? Click on these links to automatically share this episode with colleagues and friends. Recommend it to your LinkedIn connections, send to Twitter, auto-share on your Facebook page, or simply tell someone via email. Social. Use #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews or @CIMA_News. About Our Podcast. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, we hope that the insights will be consistently useful. Get in touch. How did you discover our podcast? Where do you listen? What would you like to hear more of? Finance pro or not, we're keen to know what you think. Email us here. ©2018-2020 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA)

"We've looked back so we could give you something to look forward to." With the weekend here, we invite you to take some time away from the breaking news headlines with this extra short episode featuring a collection of special playlists, one for each of the main topics we've been covering since 2018. Your Dedicated Episode Topic Lists. Click on any topic to open its dedicated episode page. (As topics can overlap, you may see the same episodes on more than one list). Technology content includes Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Data Analytics, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Human Intelligence content including Leadership and Professional Development. Visit dedicated coronavirus online resource centres for our AICPA and CIMA networks. Share. Know someone who should hear this podcast? Click on these links to automatically share this episode with colleagues and friends. Recommend it to your LinkedIn connections, send to Twitter, auto-share on your Facebook page, or simply tell someone via email. Social. Use #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews or @CIMA_News. About Our Podcast. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, we hope that the insights will be consistently useful. Get in touch. How did you discover our podcast? Where do you listen? What would you like to hear more of? Finance pro or not, we're keen to know what you think. Email us here. ©2018-2020 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA)

"It's really important to understand those risks and why it's DIFFERENT than the remote auditing of the past." Guest host Les Nettleton of CPA practice Bourgeois Bennet wraps up the year with this final monthly Cybersecurity Advisory episode of 2020. He's joined by Emily Di Nardo of BakerTilly US, and Warren Averett's Paul Perry. Talking Points. This conversation touches on these and other topics and considerations: Future risks and planning. What's working, and what isn't. The elevated risks associated with firm-client interaction. How companies could emerge from the pandemic stronger. Resources. Use these links to find out more about this topic, or to access free guidance and resources to implement in your own team or organisation. Just out! Have a look at the first issue of "Eye on Technology" brought to you by the AICPA Information Management & Technology Assurance Executive Committee, and "Eye on Technology" Task Force. Find technology and cybersecurity resources on the AICPA Technology Hub. Discover more detailed information and guidance about Cybersecurity and Information Security. Visit dedicated coronavirus online resource centres for our AICPA and CIMA networks. The Voices. Connect with the people behind the conversation. Les Nettleton is Director of Information Technology Services at Bourgeois Bennett in New Orleans, Louisiana (USA). Paul Perry is Member and Practice Leader for Security, Risk and Controls at Warren Averett in Birmingham, Alabama (USA). Emily Di Nardo is a Senior Consulting Manager at Baker Tilly US, an advisory tax and assurance firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois (USA).  Share. Know someone who should hear this podcast? Click on these links to automatically share this episode with colleagues and friends. Recommend it to your LinkedIn connections, send to Twitter, auto-share on your Facebook page, or simply tell someone via email. Social. Use #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews or @CIMA_News. About Our Podcast. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, we hope that the insights will be consistently useful. Get in touch. How did you discover our podcast? Where do you listen? What would you like to hear more of? Finance pro or not, we're keen to know what you think. Email us here. ©2018-2020 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA)

"In today's world, CPAs NEED to have Data Analytics skills" Are you at the beginning of your Data Analytics journey? In this audio version of 2020's final "Hear From Your Peers" LinkedIn Live session, AICPA & CIMA's Kristen Hughes speaks to Maria Pollieri, until recently the PeopleSoft national lead for Oracle, and returning podcast guest Jim Gilbert CPA. They begin their discussion with a look at why it's important that every CPA has data analytics skills.  Resources. Use these links to find out more about this topic, or to access free guidance and resources to implement in your own team or organisation. Get the Digital Mindset Pack with free CPE. Explore the certificate programme for RPA Fundamentals Browse the technology and cybersecurity resources on the AICPA Technology Hub. Visit dedicated coronavirus online resource centres for our AICPA and CIMA networks. Our Guests. Maria Pollieri spent 15 years with Oracle in California and was most recently their PeopleSoft National Business Lead.  Jim Gilbert is Principal Manager at Jim Gilbert CPA LLC and a former Chairperson of the AICPA's CITP Champion Group. Host Kristen Hughes is an Associate Director with Advisory Services and Credentialing at the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants.  Share. Know someone who should hear this podcast? Click on these links to automatically share this episode with colleagues and friends. Recommend it to your LinkedIn connections, send to Twitter, auto-share on your Facebook page, or simply tell someone via email. Social. Use #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews or @CIMA_News. About Our Podcast. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, we hope that the insights will be consistently useful. Get in touch. How did you discover our podcast? Where do you listen? What would you like to hear more of? Finance pro or not, we're keen to know what you think. Email us here. ©2018-2020 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA)

"It's a great time to be in the accounting profession because now you're FULLY equipped with all these options" How would a firm get started with RPA and automation technology? In this audio version of their October 2020 LinkedIn Live session, AICPA & CIMA's Penelope Johnson speaks to previous podcast guest Jotham Ty of Gappify in California, and Lesley Mast, a CPA at REA and Associates in Ohio. They discuss firms' key questions and considerations about RPA (robotic process automation), data analytics, and AI (artificial intelligence). Resources. Use these links to find out more about this topic, or to access free guidance and resources to implement in your own team or organisation. Get the Digital Mindset Pack with free CPE. Explore the certificate programme for RPA Fundamentals Browse the technology and cybersecurity resources on the AICPA Technology Hub. Visit dedicated coronavirus online resource centres for our AICPA and CIMA networks. Our Guests. Lesley Mast, CPA, is Firm Project Manager at Rea & Associates, Inc in Wooster, Ohio, USA.  Jotham Ty, is Founder at Gappify, Inc in San Francisco, California (USA).  Penelope Johnson is a Senior Manager for Technology Product Strategy and Management at the AICPA & CIMA head office in Durham, North Carolina (USA). Share. Know someone who should hear this podcast? Click on these links to automatically share this episode with colleagues and friends. Recommend it to your LinkedIn connections, send to Twitter, auto-share on your Facebook page, or simply tell someone via email. Social. Use #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews or @CIMA_News. About Our Podcast. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, we hope that the insights will be consistently useful. Get in touch. How did you discover our podcast? Where do you listen? What would you like to hear more of? Finance pro or not, we're keen to know what you think. Email us here. ©2018-2020 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA)