CPA Trendlines Podcasts

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  Donny Shimamoto: Build Careers That Bend, Not Break | MOVE Like This 16.09.2026

  Flexible systems help accounting professionals remain, contribute, and advance when life’s responsibilities change.MOVE Like ThisWith Bonnie Buol RuszczykFor CPA Trendlines ResearchWhen caregiving responsibilities collide with work, even the most committed professionals can find themselves questioning whether their careers are still sustainable.In this episode of MOVE Like This, Donny Shimamoto, CPA.CITP, CGMA, managing director of IntrapriseTechKnowlogies and inspiration architect at the Center for Accounting Transformation, joins Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk to discuss what accounting firms can do to better support employees with caregiving responsibilities. Drawing from his own experience as a caregiver and his firm's long-standing flexible work model, Shimamoto explains why supporting caregivers isn't about creating complicated new policies. Instead, it's about building thoughtful systems, training managers, and planning work in ways that recognize employees have lives outside the office.MORE MOVE Like This | MORE CPA Trendlines Streaming NetworkShimamoto shares how becoming a caregiver for his great-aunt changed his own perspective on the issue. While many people associate caregiving with raising young children, his experience highlighted how responsibilities for aging parents, relatives, and others often arrive unexpectedly and affect employees across every stage of their careers. Rather than viewing caregiving as a temporary accommodation for a small group of employees, he believes firms should recognize it as a reality that will affect nearly everyone at some point in their lives. That shift in thinking changes how organizations design policies, manage workloads, and retain experienced professionals. 
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  Kenji Kuramoto: AI Agents Are Coming for SALY — and the Billable Hour | The Disruptors 15.09.2026 1h 15min

  Intelligent agents will reshape accounting workflows, pricing models, employee development, and the value firms deliver to clients.The DisruptorsWith Liz FarrFor CPA TrendlinesKenji Kuramoto says accounting firms will be changing how they work — and even who does the work.“The future of accounting firms,” Kuramoto says, “is going to be made up of a workforce that has two components. It’ll have people and agents.”His current company, Basis, where he serves as managing partner in residence, is building those agents. Kuramoto says approximately 30% of the top 25 accounting firms are using them across client accounting services, tax, and audit. The agents perform multistep workflows such as reconciliations, account categorization, and first-pass tax return preparation, including work on complex partnership returns.MORE Disruptors with Liz Farr | CPA Trendlines Streaming NetworkBy the end of the year, Kuramoto expects some practice lines to achieve efficiency gains of 60% to 80% by using agents. Within a year, “we should probably be able to see agents working and collaborating together, overall, being directed and architected by people,” he says.
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  Jason Ackerman: The Roth IRA Mistakes That Can Cost Clients | The Concierge CPA 14.09.2026 46min

  The strategy may be simple, but the execution is not.The Concierge CPAWith Jackie MeyerIn this episode, Dr. Jackie Meyer, CPA, welcomes Jason Ackerman, CPA, CFP, CGMA, chief financial officer and co-founder of WealthRabbit, to separate practical Roth IRA guidance from the oversimplified advice circulating online. MORE Jackie Meyer | MORE CPA Trendlines Streaming NetworkRoth IRAs can provide tax-free growth and qualified withdrawals, but eligibility rules, reporting requirements, and conversion mechanics leave plenty of room for costly mistakes. Meyer and Ackerman examine direct contributions, backdoor Roth strategies, the often-misunderstood five-year rules, and the documentation advisers need to implement these strategies correctly.A central warning: A backdoor Roth is not a product or a one-click transaction. It is a multistep process that requires advisers to examine the client’s existing IRA balances, properly report nondeductible contributions and conversions, and reconcile Form 8606 with Form 1099-R.“Messing up the backdoor Roth is probably the one that can hurt the most,” Ackerman says.
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  Can AI Finally Tame the K-1? 10.09.2026 31min

  K1x Is Betting $175 Million on It.Full show notes hereBy Seth FinebergFor CPA TrendlinesK1x is putting $175 million in new investment behind an expansion of its K-1 technology platform, with plans to accelerate product development, broaden its offerings and build a more standardized system for managing partnership tax data.MORE K1x: K1x Secures $175 Million for Private Markets AI Tax Tech | Private Market Tax Is Heading for a Collision | The 3-Part Framework Firms Are Using to Fix K-1 Chaos | Why the Future of Tax Isn’t Compliance—It’s Timing | AI Tax App Crashes Financial Stocks on Wall Street | MORE A.I. | MORE CPA Trendlines Streaming Network CEO John LaMancuso says the company is pushing beyond automating individual K-1 tasks. K1x wants to connect K-1 creation and aggregation into a unified platform that can move tax data among CPA firms, investment funds and investors with less manual handling.“Start with the bottleneck, not the technology,” LaMancuso says.MORE > > > 
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  Agentic AI Needs Guardrails, Not Hype | ARC 10.09.2026 28min

  Accountants should demand systems that reveal the work, respect boundaries, and produce results humans can verify.Accounting ARCWith Donny Shimamoto, Liz Mason, and Byron PatrickCenter for Accounting TransformationAgentic AI does not have to replace an accountant to transform accounting. Its more practical role may be far less dramatic — and far more useful.In this episode of the Accounting ARC podcast, Donny Shimamoto, CPA.CITP, CGMA; Liz Mason, CPA; and Byron Patrick, CPA.CITP, explore how narrowly focused AI agents can help professionals retrieve information, analyze data, navigate systems, and make better-informed decisions.MORE Accounting ARC: AI Isn't Erasing Tax Careers. It's Rewriting Them. | Accounting Internships Need an Upgrade | The CPA Career Nobody Talks About | Conference Season Exposes Accounting's Knowledge Gap | The Feedback Mistake That Costs You Your Best People | Is Your Boss Really the Problem? | Most Accountants Are Missing This AI Shift | AI Can Fix Your Workflow—or Break It in Seconds | Efficiency Is the Wrong Goal for AI | Accounting’s Hidden Talent Risk: The Sandwich Generation | Built Fast. Sold Faster. Broken Later? The Truth About Accounting Tech | Recognize When You Need to Recharge Before You Burn Out | Valuing More Than the Balance SheetTheir conversation challenges one of the dominant narratives surrounding agentic AI: that firms should build autonomous digital employees capable of handling everything a staff accountant does. Instead, the hosts envision specialized agents that operate within structured systems, perform clearly defined tasks, and show users how they reach their conclusions.“If you have agentic AI that’s built into an architecture that already exists, there’s a whole lot more that has to happen from a training perspective,” says Mason, CEO of High Rock Accounting.That architecture, she explains, can include multiple agents working together rather than one agent attempting to handle an entire assignment.
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  AI Isn’t Erasing Tax Careers. It’s Rewriting Them | ARC 03.09.2026 45min

  Firms must build new pathways that develop reviewers, judgment and client-facing skills.Accounting ARCWith Donny Shimamoto, Liz Mason, and Byron PatrickCenter for Accounting TransformationArtificial intelligence may not eliminate the entry-level tax professional. But it is dismantling the job that many firms still use to train one.That's the conversation driving a new episode of the Accounting ARC podcast featuring Donny Shimamoto, CPA.CITP, CGMA, founder and managing director of IntrapriseTechKnowlogies LLC and founder and inspiration architect for the Center for Accounting Transformation; and Liz Mason, CPA, CEO of High Rock Accounting.The conversation begins with a small tax firm that hires six interns each year and teaches them to prepare returns much as earlier generations learned: working from paper documents, identifying relevant numbers, mapping those figures to tax forms, and entering the data into tax software.MORE Accounting ARC: Accounting Internships Need an Upgrade | The CPA Career Nobody Talks About | Conference Season Exposes Accounting's Knowledge Gap | The Feedback Mistake That Costs You Your Best People | Is Your Boss Really the Problem? | Most Accountants Are Missing This AI Shift | AI Can Fix Your Workflow—or Break It in Seconds | Efficiency Is the Wrong Goal for AI | Accounting’s Hidden Talent Risk: The Sandwich Generation | Built Fast. Sold Faster. Broken Later? The Truth About Accounting Tech | Recognize When You Need to Recharge Before You Burn Out The firm owner sees the process as an apprenticeship that helps students bridge the gap between an individual tax course and real-world preparation. Shimamoto sees value in teaching interns how information moves from source documents to a completed return. Mason agrees with the objective but challenges the method.“From a holistic learning exploration, sure, yes, that is a way to learn,” Mason says. “From a where-we-are-today perspective, I think that’s a giant disservice to these interns.”
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  Leah Yoneda: Stop Mistaking Networking for Business Development | MOVE Like This 02.09.2026 45min

  Sustainable growth comes from cultivating trust over time—not collecting contacts, memorizing sales scripts or forcing professionals into uncomfortable networking routines.MOVE Like ThisWith Bonnie Buol RuszczykFor CPA Trendlines ResearchIn this episode of MOVE Like This, Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk sits down with Lea Yoneda, founder and CEO of Golden Ginkgo Group, to explore why so many talented accounting professionals struggle with business development and why the problem often has less to do with personality than with how firms define, teach, and reward growth.Yoneda argues that firms frequently wait until professionals are on the doorstep of partnership before introducing business development, then expect them to master an entirely different skill set with little guidance or support.MORE MOVE Like This | MORE CPA Trendlines Streaming NetworkRather than treating relationship building as a long-term professional competency, many firms reduce it to a one-time training session or a list of networking tactics. She believes this approach sets professionals up for unnecessary stress and overlooks the fact that meaningful business development takes years to develop. A significant portion of the conversation focuses on introversion and the misconceptions surrounding it.
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  Erin Pohan: How to Help Your Clients Understand Accounting | The Disruptors 02.09.2026 55min

  Connect with your clients: "You're an entrepreneur, I'm an entrepreneur."Full show notes hereThe DisruptorsWith Liz FarrErin Pohan’s firm, Upkeeping, is on a mission “to make accounting relevant and understandable” to all its clients. Pohan describes Upkeeping as “a tax-ready firm” that does everything but tax prep, which they hand off to the clients’ tax professionals. But their hand-off doesn’t stop with providing the tax pro with the information needed for the tax return.MORE Liz Farr | CPA Trendlines Streaming Network“We don’t believe in just handing pieces of paper over to our clients and letting them run with it,” she explains. “We do work with them throughout the year. We do our client calls where we’re explaining the numbers and the stories behind the numbers, especially, and making sure that they feel equipped and empowered to understand their business finances.” MORE > > > 
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  Shelly Weir: Florida CPAs Save Their Licenses. For Now | Gear Up for Growth 28.08.2026 35min

  FICPA CEO Shelly Weir says the profession survived its most serious deregulation fight yet. The threat isn’t confined to Florida. Full show notes hereGear Up for GrowthWith Jean CaragherFor CPA TrendlinesFlorida CPAs came closer than many realized to losing the regulatory structure behind the CPA license, as a sweeping deregulation drive threatened the state Board of Accountancy and raised the possibility of a credential weakened to the point that “anybody could put those letters behind their name,” according to Shelly Weir, president and CEO of the Florida Institute of CPAs.MORE Jean Caragher here | Get her best-selling handbook, The 90-Day Marketing Plan for CPA Firms, here | MORE Gear Up for Growth here | MORE CPA Trendlines Streaming Network here“The elimination of the CPA license altogether – or having a license so degraded and devalued that anybody could put those letters behind their name – I don’t know what terrifies me more,” Weir tells Jean Caragher in this episode of Gear Up for Growth.READ MORE > > > 
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  Blake Carroll: The CPA Exam Isn’t Testing How Smart You Are | Accounting Conversations 27.08.2026 47min

  PwC consultant and CPA exam coach says success depends less on being the smartest person in the room and more on managing time, building effective habits, and continuing after setbacks.Accounting ConversationsWith Chayton FarleeCenter for Accounting TransformationThe greatest obstacle standing between most CPA candidates and their licenses is not intelligence. It is time. That distinction matters, says Blake Carroll, CPA, a deployment consultant with PwC who helps aspiring CPAs develop the plans, habits, and mindsets they need to pass the exam.“I truly believe anyone can pass it,” Carroll tells host Chayton Farlee on the Accounting Conversations podcast. “It’s not a test of intelligence. It is a test of endurance.”MORE CPA Trendlines Streaming NetworkIn the episode, Carroll and Farlee, an assurance associate at CliftonLarsonAllen, explore what makes the exam so difficult — and why the skills candidates develop while preparing for it can continue serving them long after they earn their licenses.Carroll knows candidates must master a large volume of technical material, often while working full time, attending school, or managing family responsibilities. They must sustain that effort for months and sometimes longer, without the frequent deadlines and feedback that help structure a college course. The resulting pressure can lead candidates to question whether they are smart enough, moving quickly enough, or studying the right way.“Anxiety can kill more CPA dreams than the difficulty of the material,” Carroll says.
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  David Podell: The Retirement Plan Provision Most Tax Advisers Overlook | The Concierge CPA 24.08.2026 31min

  Solo 401(k)s let you think beyond retirement.Full show notes here.The Concierge CPAWith Jackie MeyerIn this episode of The Concierge CPA, Dr. Jackie Meyer welcomes back David Podell, founder of Business Benefits Consultants, to unravel the evolving world of retirement planning and its strategic value for business owners.MORE Jackie Meyer and The Concierge CPA | MORE CPA Trendlines Streaming NetworkPodell explains the solo 401(k)’s advantages over simpler plans like SEPs or SIMPLEs, dives into common mistakes business owners make, and shares how smart structuring — including leveraging Roth contributions and defined benefit add-ons — can elevate retirement planning from compliance to strategy.“Putting money in these retirement plans pulls money out of the business and creates a personal net worth," Podell says.MORE > > >  
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  Jim Metzler: The Profession’s Best Are Walking Away from Partnership | Gear Up for Growth 21.08.2026 43min

  Firms, not candidates, are to blame for a generation of superstars declining the summons.Show notes hereGear Up for Growthwith Jean Caragherfor CPA TrendlinesFew voices carry more weight on the question of who becomes a partner, and why, than Jim Metzler’s.So when the former AICPA vice president and longtime mentor to emerging firm leaders says the profession’s top performers are hesitating at the threshold of partnership, firm owners would do well to listen.MORE Jean Caragher here | Get her best-selling handbook, The 90-Day Marketing Plan for CPA Firms, here | MORE Gear Up for Growth here | MORE CPA Trendlines Streaming Network hereIn the new episode of “Gear Up for Growth,” hosted by Jean Caragher of Capstone Marketing, Metzler lays out why – and what separates the firms that keep their stars from the ones that lose them.“The bigger the superstar in the firm, the more they say, ‘I’m really not sure if I want to be a partner,'” says Jim Metzler, founder of Metzler Advisory Group and author of “The Emerging Partner Playbook: A Complete Guide for Emerging Partners in CPA Firms,” this edition of “Gear Up for Growth,” powered by CPA Trendlines and hosted by Jean Caragher, president of Capstone Marketing.READ MORE > > > 
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  Can Gen Z and Boomers Speak the Same Business Language? | ARC 20.08.2026 34min

  As workplace language evolves, effective professionals know their audience and adapt their message.Accounting ARCWith Byron Patrick, Donny Shimamoto and Liz MasonCenter for Accounting TransformationEvery generation enters the workplace speaking a slightly different language.For Generation Z, that language may include phrases such as “delulu,” “mid” and “fire.” For earlier generations, the dated vocabulary might sound different, but the underlying challenge remains familiar: How do people bring their authentic voices to work while still communicating professionally?MORE Accounting ARC: Accounting Internships Need an Upgrade | The CPA Career Nobody Talks About | Conference Season Exposes Accounting's Knowledge Gap | The Feedback Mistake That Costs You Your Best People | Is Your Boss Really the Problem? | Most Accountants Are Missing This AI Shift | AI Can Fix Your Workflow—or Break It in Seconds | Efficiency Is the Wrong Goal for AI | Accounting’s Hidden Talent Risk: The Sandwich Generation | Built Fast. Sold Faster. Broken Later? The Truth About Accounting Tech | Recognize When You Need to Recharge Before You Burn Out | Valuing More Than the Balance SheetIn this episode of the Accounting ARC podcast, Donny Shimamoto, CPA.CITP, CGMA; Byron Patrick, CPA.CITP; and Liz Mason, CPA, examine the supposed language barrier separating Generation Z and baby boomers — and question whether it is really as new or insurmountable as some portray it.Their conclusion is less about memorizing the latest slang and more about developing an essential power skill: adaptability.
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  Shannon Stone-Winding: The Workforce Was Built for a Life That No Longer Exists | MOVE Like This 19.08.2026 39min

  As caregiving responsibilities expand across generations and definitions of family, employers have an opportunity to rethink how work gets done — and keep valuable people in the process.MOVE Like ThisWith Bonnie Buol RuszczykFor CPA Trendlines ResearchIn this episode of MOVE Like This, Shannon Stone-Winding, President and CEO of the Business Alliance of Colleges and Employers (BACE), joins Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk to explore caregiving through a much broader lens: what does it mean for an organization to truly care for its people?Shannon brings both a professional and deeply personal perspective to the conversation. In addition to her work connecting employers, colleges, and emerging talent, she has spent 20 years as the primary caregiver for her husband, a 100% service-connected disabled Marine Corps veteran.MORE MOVE Like This | MORE CPA Trendlines Streaming NetworkThat experience has shaped how she thinks about caregiving, workplace culture, and what employees need to remain and thrive in their careers.Shannon’s current caregiving research grew from a conversation at a diversity symposium, where accounting professionals began sharing examples of how firms were responding to employees’ changing needs.
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  Randy Johnston: Accounting’s Brave New World of MCPs | The Disruptors 17.08.2026 1h 15min

  If MCPs are the infrastructure, agentic AI is the workforce.Full show notes hereThe DisruptorsWith Liz FarrRandy Johnston has been in accounting technology longer than many of today’s practitioners have been alive. With more than 50 years in the field, and a hand in designing everything from IBM ThinkPads to Excel’s PivotTables, he has seen more technological revolutions than he can easily count. He even wrote AI code in 1975 in Lisp. Through it all, he has remained true to a singular ideal: “My personal mission has always been to help as many people as possible do the things they want to do with technology.”MORE DISRUPTORS: David Cristello: Growth Breaks Things – and That’s Normal | The Disruptors | Blumer, Vacin: What Only 5% of Firms Get Right | Disruptors | Ira Rosenbloom: PE Forces Firms to Pick a Future | The Disruptors | Doug Slaybaugh: How to Define “Values in Motion” | The Disruptors | Nancy McClelland: Bookkeepers Need a Safe Space to Collaborate | The Disruptors | Chase Damiano: Good Operations Means Defining How the Hand-Offs Happen | The Disruptors | Jeff Seibert: Digits Software Moves Toward Real-Time Accounting | The Disruptors | MORE CPA Trendlines Streaming NetworkYet Johnston, executive vice president of K2 Enterprises and co-founder of Network Management Group, says the most significant shift is happening right now with Model Context Protocols (MCPs). MCPs are a technical layer that allows multiple systems to be connected and queried through AI. Though he’s spent decades watching technology evolve through mainframes, databases, graphical interfaces, and SaaS, he says MCPs may be the most consequential development he’s seen in years.“It’s making me think we no longer need dashboards. It’s making me think we no longer need user interfaces the way we did,” he says. “I think we’re actually going to wind up talking to a lot of our systems in the very near term.”MORE > > > 
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  Mark Koziel: The End of Accounting as We Know It | Gear Up for Growth 14.08.2026 39min

  Koziel Calls for a New CPA Firm Model. Show notes hereGear Up for Growthwith Jean Caragherfor CPA TrendlinesMark Koziel is putting the accounting profession on notice: The business model that sustained CPA firms for generations is running out of time.“The hours-times-rate model is a death knell for the profession,” says Koziel, CPA, CGMA, president and CEO of the AICPA and the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, on Gear Up for Growth, powered by CPA Trendlines and hosted by Jean Caragher, president of Capstone Marketing.MORE Jean Caragher here | Get her best-selling handbook, The 90-Day Marketing Plan for CPA Firms, hereGear Up for Growth is tailored specifically for public accounting firms with up to 100 team members looking to expand their practices intelligently and efficiently.MORE Gear Up for Growth here | MORE CPA Trendlines Streaming Network hereAs artificial intelligence accelerates the automation of tax preparation and compliance work, Koziel says CPA firms must fundamentally rethink how they create—and price—value for clients.“There’s still value to that tax return,” Koziel says. “It’s just not based on our inputs.”Rather than charging for the time it takes to complete compliance work, Koziel encourages firms to focus on the insight, judgment and peace of mind they provide through planning, advisory services and proactive client relationships.One of his strongest messages centers on repositioning the profession beyond its traditional identity.“If you ask anybody on the street what a CPA does, they’re going to tell you tax,” Koziel says. “But advisory and planning are the two that we really need to start nailing down.”Throughout the discussion, Koziel emphasizes that while AI continues to reshape workflows, it does not diminish the importance of the CPA. Instead, it elevates the profession’s responsibility to help clients interpret information, make better decisions and navigate increasing complexity.MORE > > > 
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  Accounting Internships Need an Upgrade | ARC 13.08.2026 30min

  As AI handles more routine work, how do young accountants develop judgment, communication and leadership?Accounting ARCWith Donny Shimamoto and Liz MasonCenter for Accounting TransformationThe accounting internship is due for an upgrade.For decades, internships often give aspiring accountants their first real taste of the profession by dropping them into the work: Learn the process, complete the assignment, survive busy season and figure out the unwritten rules along the way.But as artificial intelligence takes over more of the entry-level work traditionally assigned to new accountants, Donny Shimamoto, CPA.CITP, CGMA, and Liz Mason, CPA, argue the profession needs to reconsider what an internship is actually supposed to teach.MORE Accounting ARC: The CPA Career Nobody Talks About | Conference Season Exposes Accounting's Knowledge Gap | The Feedback Mistake That Costs You Your Best People | Is Your Boss Really the Problem? | Most Accountants Are Missing This AI Shift | AI Can Fix Your Workflow—or Break It in Seconds | Efficiency Is the Wrong Goal for AI | Accounting’s Hidden Talent Risk: The Sandwich Generation | Built Fast. Sold Faster. Broken Later? The Truth About Accounting Tech | Recognize When You Need to Recharge Before You Burn Out In this episode of the Accounting ARC podcast, Shimamoto, founder and managing director of IntrapriseTechKnowlogies LLC and founder and inspiration architect for the Center for Accounting Transformation, and Mason, CEO of High Rock Accounting, explore why tomorrow's accountants need more than technical proficiency.They need what Shimamoto calls "power skills."
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  Rachel Farris: The CPA Career Nobody Talks About | ARC 06.08.2026 39min

  The next generation is blending entrepreneurship, AI, and advisory into careers that barely existed a few years ago.Accounting ARCWith Donny ShimamotoCenter for Accounting TransformationFor decades, the accounting profession has followed a familiar script: earn a CPA license, join a firm, climb the ladder and perhaps become a partner.Rachel Farris, CPA, MBA, is proving there is another way.After building a highly specialized tax advisory practice serving U.S. citizens relocating to Puerto Rico, Farris launches Tax Stack AI, a company that helps accounting firms implement artificial intelligence securely and strategically.MORE Accounting ARC: Conference Season Exposes Accounting's Knowledge Gap | The Feedback Mistake That Costs You Your Best People | Is Your Boss Really the Problem? | Most Accountants Are Missing This AI Shift | AI Can Fix Your Workflow—or Break It in Seconds | Efficiency Is the Wrong Goal for AI | Accounting’s Hidden Talent Risk: The Sandwich Generation | Built Fast. Sold Faster. Broken Later? The Truth About Accounting Tech | Recognize When You Need to Recharge Before You Burn Out | Valuing More Than the Balance SheetShe has since sold her CPA practice to focus on AI consulting and education, demonstrating that today's accounting professionals can create careers far beyond traditional public accounting.In this episode of Accounting ARC, Donny Shimamoto, CPA.CITP, CGMA, founder and managing director of IntrapriseTechKnowlogies LLC and founder and inspiration architect for the Center for Accounting Transformation, sits down with Farris to explore entrepreneurship, AI, networking and the expanding possibilities available to CPAs willing to embrace change.Their conversation becomes less about one accountant's journey and more about the profession's future.
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  Caregiving Isn’t a Side Issue - It’s a Workforce Issue | MOVE Like This 05.08.2026 44min

  “Flexibility should be used as a tool for success. It shouldn't be the exception.” MOVE Like ThisWith Bonnie Buol RuszczykFor CPA Trendlines ResearchIn this episode of MOVE Like This, Mandy Gallagher, lead manager of Women’s Initiatives at the AICPA, joins Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk to discuss why caregiving has become such an important conversation in accounting, what firms may misunderstand about caregivers, and how greater flexibility and support could influence retention and leadership pipelines across the profession. Gallagher’s work focuses on advancing women’s initiatives, supporting professional development, and amplifying women’s perspectives throughout the profession. MORE MOVE Like This | MORE CPA Trendlines Streaming NetworkOne reason caregiving is getting more attention now is that it is both more visible and much broader than many people have traditionally assumed. Demographic shifts mean multiple generations are simultaneously balancing careers with responsibilities for children, aging parents, siblings, partners, friends, and others who rely on them. COVID also changed expectations around where and how work can happen. Employees experienced firsthand that they could remain productive while having enough flexibility to pick up a child or take a parent to a medical appointment. As more organizations return to traditional office expectations, those competing demands have become harder to reconcile.The conversation challenges another long-standing assumption: that caregiving is primarily a women-with-young-children issue.
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  Conference Season Exposes Accounting's Knowledge Gap | ARC 30.07.2026 48min

  From vendor demonstrations to hallway conversations, this year's conference season highlights both excitement and uncertainty across the profession.Accounting ARCWith Donny ShimamotoCenter for Accounting TransformationEvery summer, accounting professionals pack conference centers looking for the next big idea. They attend breakout sessions, visit vendor booths, compare notes with peers and return to their firms with pages of ideas.This year, however, the conversations feel different.Artificial intelligence still dominates the agenda, but the Accounting ARC hosts notice a subtle shift beneath the excitement. The biggest takeaway isn't simply that AI is everywhere. It's that many accountants are struggling to separate innovation from marketing, capability from hype, and opportunity from risk.MORE Accounting ARC: The Feedback Mistake That Costs You Your Best People | Is Your Boss Really the Problem? | Most Accountants Are Missing This AI Shift | AI Can Fix Your Workflow—or Break It in Seconds | Efficiency Is the Wrong Goal for AI | Accounting’s Hidden Talent Risk: The Sandwich Generation | Built Fast. Sold Faster. Broken Later? The Truth About Accounting Tech | Recognize When You Need to Recharge Before You Burn Out | Valuing More Than the Balance SheetIn this episode of Accounting ARC, hosts Byron Patrick, CPA.CITP, senior product manager for Karbon and co-founder and educator for TB Academy; Donny Shimamoto, CPA.CITP, CGMA, founder and managing director of IntrapriseTechKnowlogies LLC and founder and inspiration architect for the Center for Accounting Transformation; and Liz Mason, CPA, CEO of High Rock Accounting, reflect on what they observe during this year's conference season—and what those observations reveal about the profession's next challenge.