Baby, Where the Hell Is My Audit?
The Massachusetts State Auditor walked into a St. Patrick's Day breakfast and sang karaoke for the legislature. The song: “Baby, Where The Hell Is My Audit?”
Can AI Help Your Firm Close Faster Without Giving Up Control?
Join me & Sasha Orloff (CEO of Puzzle) to see what "AI-powered, human-led" accounting looks like in practice. Learn to scale capacity, maintain control, and earn free CPE!
The Business of War: Why the U.S.-Iran Conflict is an Accounting Nightmare
If one side in a conflict can repeatedly deploy assets costing tens of thousands of dollars while forcing the other side to respond with systems costing millions, the math is troubling.
When AI Can Prepare a Partnership Return, What Happens to the Business Model?
For decades, the complexity of business tax returns functioned as a moat around compliance revenue. If AI can cross that moat, even partially, we need to rethink some assumptions.
I’m Speaking at PICPA’s 129th Annual Meeting & Celebration
I’m honored to be the keynote speaker at PICPA’s 129th Annual Meeting & Celebration, May 4–5 at The Omni Bedford Springs. I’ll be speaking on how CPAs can stay ahead of AI and evolve alongside the technology changing our profession.
John Summit: From Big Four Auditor to Global DJ Superstar
Before he was headlining Coachella and selling out stadiums, John Summit was John Schuster, CPA—a Big Four auditor at EY. Discover how he traded balance sheets for bass drops and why his new album, CTRL ESCAPE, is the ultimate anthem for every accountant looking to exit the corporate grind.
When the “Bots” Are Actually People: Lessons from the Botkeeper Collapse
Botkeeper is shutting down. Let’s call this what it was. It was a fraud.
How Earmark Is Helping Bring CPAs Back
One of the underappreciated drivers of the CPA shortage is how hard we’ve made it to stay a CPA.
The Case for an Annual “State of the Nation” Financial Report
84% of Americans are worried the national debt will hurt future generations' economic opportunities. That’s according to a Harris Poll conducted on behalf of the AICPA. But here's the thing: right now there's no requirement for anyone to actually present the government's audited financial statements to Congress. A new bipartisan bill would change that.
The Department of Education Wants to Strip Accounting of Its Professional Status
The Department of Education wants to strip accounting of its professional degree status. This would slash federal loan limits for accounting students from $50,000 to $20,500 per year, starting in 2026. On episode 464 of The Accounting Podcast, David and I dug into this proposal.