Journal of Accountancy Podcast

Accounting history is a lot more exciting than you realize. Historian and MacArthur Fellow Jacob Soll, author of "The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations," discusses the vital role accounting played in the French and American revolutions.

Tax reform is the hot topic in Washington right now. In this episode of the podcast, which was recorded Nov. 6 at the AICPA National Tax Conference, we talk about what CPAs need to know with tax reform expert Tony Nitti, CPA, a tax partner with WithumSmith+Brown and an editorial board member of The Tax Adviser.

Health care reform has been one of the biggest policy issues of the year. In this episode of the podcast, which was taped Nov. 6 at the AICPA National Tax Conference, we ask health care reform expert Eddie Adkins, CPA, of Grant Thornton what will come next in the process — and what accountants need to know about it.

Blake Christian, a tax partner with HCVT, drops in to reveal the secrets he's learned from opening several new offices over the years.

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.