085: From the Gypsy Life of Audit to Helping Children – Holly Raymond’s Story
In this episode of Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast, we speak with Holly Raymond, Senior Vice President of Finance with Upbring. Public Accounting Life Holly began her career working in public accounting with one of the Big 4. One of the great...
084: Buying and Selling an Accounting Practice – A Discussion with Business Brokers of Texas
In this episode of Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast, David Sweeten, CPA and Eric Arroyo, MBA from Business Brokers of Texas share their expertise on buying and selling accounting firms and businesses in general. We have discussed buying practices...
083: Jeopardy Winner & CPA – Deborah Beams!
In this episode of Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast, we follow Deborah Beams, CPA through her professional journey from job shadowing with Kathy Kapka, to being a practice fellow, to being a two-time winner on the game show Jeopardy!! The Variety...
082: Solving Crimes and Other CPA Superhero Topics with Fred Olivares, CPA
In this episode of Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast, Fred Olivares, CPA started his career in a rather traditional way. He began his career in Internal Auditing, and in Fred’s case, he was employed by a bank. After hearing an FBI Agent speak...
081: Curiosity and Passion Carves Out the Best Career Path – Pauline Le, CPA
In this episode of Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast, Pauline Le, CPA shares how her career in public accounting led to a career in the not-for-profit world, which then led to a very fulfilling position with a commercial, for-profit company....
080: Developing and Running a Wildly Successful Company with Kurt Rathmann of ScaleFactor
In this episode of Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast, Kurt Rathmann, CPA and CEO / Founder of ScaleFactor shares with us how his business model, ideology, and management style has created an extremely successful, cutting-edge company that will...
079: From Law Enforcement, to Accounting, to Consulting with Steve Palomino!
Have you ever considered what law enforcement and accounting have in common? Steve Palomino has! In this podcast, Steve points out the similarities which help us to understand why the FBI and other law enforcement organizations want to hire accountants – and it’s not...
078: Creating Cultures that Really Work – Neha Patel, Partner at Weaver
In this episode of Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast, Neha Patel, CPA, CISA shares not only how she made partner at Weaver, but how she has led the Women’s Initiative for the entire firm that has (along with the Culture Committee) created a culture...
077: Donny Shimamoto CPA – Tech, BI, AI, & Public Speaking!
In this episode of Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast, Donny Shimamoto, CPA, CITP, CGMA shares his career journey, which is unique as it has been heavily focused on technology and business intelligence. Additionally, Donny also reveals what his life...