Journal of Accountancy Podcast

On Wednesday, Sept. 27, Republican lawmakers released a framework for tax reform--a key issue for CPAs and their clients. So what do practitioners need to know about the framework? Two expert guests, Alistair Nevius and Tony Nitti, join us for a special episode to help bring CPAs up to speed on the development. Nevius is the editor-in-chief of The Tax Adviser, and Nitti is a tax partner with WithumSmith+Brown and an editorial board member of The Tax Adviser.

CPAs sometimes struggle to hold their audiences’ interest when presenting financial data. Peter Margaritis, CPA, tells CPAs how to use storytelling to make their presentations more compelling.

Every year, The Tax Adviser conducts a tax software survey that readers have come to rely on to help them choose what software to use and keep up with changes in the industry. In this episode, The Tax Adviser Editor-In-Chief Alistair Nevius explains what we can learn from this year’s survey.

A workplace offering an unlimited paid-time-off policy sounds like paradise for employees… and nothing but headaches for the managers responsible for making sure all the work gets done. But the management team at ATKG, a CPA firm in San Antonio, has implemented just such a policy and has been very happy with the results. In this episode, we talk to Teryn Grater, a partner at the firm, about how and why they implemented the policy.

Artificial intelligence and blockchain are among the technologies being touted as potentially disruptive and transformational for the accounting profession. How and when will new technologies reshape the accounting profession? That’s the focus of the conversation in part 2 of our annual technology roundtable.

John Mattar, the director of Psychometrics & Research for the AICPA Examinations team, talks about how the exam was developed—and answer some common questions about scoring.

What should CPAs be doing to better protect their data and derive more value from the investments in technology? Find out from our panel of accounting technology experts.

Great public speakers can be made, not born. Elizabeth Pittelkow, CPA, accounting and compliance director at ArrowStream, discusses how her experience with Toastmasters turned her from someone who avoided public speaking to someone who’s made it a key part of her career.

Nick Graf, an ethical hacker with CNA, joins the show to discuss all the cyber threats that go bump in the night and ways to prevent them from harming your business.

Being a public accountant entails a certain amount of professional liability risk. But accountants can take steps to mitigate that risk. In this episode, guest Sarah Beckett Ference, CPA, of CNA talks about ways that CPAs can help prevent, or defend themselves from, lawsuits.