025: Ed Polansky, CPA: Building a Firm, Merging a Firm, & Writing a Book!
Ed Polansky was our guest this week for Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast. Those in Texas will recognize Ed’s name. Ed has served as TSCPA Chair several years ago, worked in the national firms for many years, founded his own firm, eventually merged...
024: Craig Fuller – Executive Director for Daily Bread Ministries, & a CPA!
Craig Fuller, the Executive Director for Daily Bread Ministries, and a CPA that was in public practice for 30 years (!), joined us for this episode of Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast. Transition… One of the reasons I asked Craig to join us on the...
023: Melanie Geist of Ridout Barrett & Co, Porter & Geist, and the Peace Corp!
Melanie Geist, partner with Ridout Barrett & Company, a CPA firm in San Antonio, joined us for this episode of Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast. Peace Corp! While it’s not the main point of the interview, one of the interesting elements of...
022: John Sharbaugh, Retiring CEO of TSCPA: Trends & Opportunities in the Profession
John Sharbaugh, the recently retired CEO of TSCPA, joined us for this episode of Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast. A unique guest… John was a different guest for us in that he didn’t start his career in the profession, but he has had a unique...
021: Derek Schriver of Schriver Carmona – The rest of the story… :)
This is a first for us… Derek Schriver of Schriver Carmona & Company, the partner of Chris Carmona – a previous guest, joined us for this week’s episode of Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast. The rest of the story… After interviewing Chris...
020: Bruce Howard – Career Guidance from a True Expert
Our guest for this week’s episode of Life In Accounting was none other than Bruce Howard, Career Advisor at Texas State University… and a former Accountant! A humble beginning in Accounting Bruce has come full-circle in that he originally graduated from Southwest...
019: David Holt – Teaching CE Courses, and of course, Ethics!
David Holt, CE instructor and owner of HoltCPE, shared his time with us on this episode of Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast. Since David generally gets paid for speaking on some of these topics, I very much appreciated him taking the time out to...
018: Bill Schneider – Success in Industry & Insights on Leadership
Bill Schneider, Director of Accounting Policy at AT&T in Dallas, joined us for this week’s episode of Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast. Moving on up! One of the more rare aspects of this interview versus others is that we typically talk about...
017: Jim Oliver – Taking Risk in Business, & Looking Forward with TSCPA
The incoming Chair for TSCPA, Jim Oliver, joined us this week on Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast. Not Being Afraid of Risk If you’ve interacted with Jim before, this may surprise you somewhat. Jim is a very conscientious, caring, and seemingly...