Accounting Answers Podcast

Rob Brown

Brought to you by Rightworks, the ACCOUNTING ANSWERS PODCAST is hosted by Rob Brown, co-founder of the Accounting Influencers Roundtable (AIR). On this weekly show with short, sharp episodes, Rob asks 110 experts and influencers the critical questions shaping the accounting profession. It keeps you informed of what's happening in the accounting world and the whole ecosystem of consultants, organizations, vendors and advisors who serve them. Go to https://www.rightworks.com for secure, remote access to all your core apps, all in one place. Special deals and discounts for accounting professional and firms, plus a community of high quality content and resources to grow your firm. ________________ Host Rob Brown is a renowned presenter, facilitator and chair of high-level conferences, panels and events globally for the accounting and fintech profession. He is retained by many professional networks, alliances, associations, practices and vendors to chair their events and provide high-level interview content for their communities. He is a dynamic speaker and accomplished expert on trust, reputation, employer brand, talent, career development, succession, gen z/generations, employee advocacy and executive presence. https://www.linkedin.com/in/therobbrown/ Rob is author of the bestselling book Build Your Reputation (Wiley) and his TEDx talk ‘The Personal Brand of You’ has been viewed over 300,000 times on YouTube. He is a stroke survivor, has epilepsy, is a committed Christian and has a black belt in kickboxing. He is based in Nottingham UK, home of Robin Hood, plays chess and backgammon, loves orange chocolate and is allergic to grapefruit. https://www.linkedin.com/company/accountinginfluencers https://bit.ly/AI-youtube

  1. 04/21/2025

    Accountants Unveiled: More Than Just Financial Experts

    Ep: 35 Top experts answer: "Are business owners any closer to receiving proactive advice from accountants?" The Accounting Answers Podcast, hosted by Rob Brown, asks critical questions of the experts, leaders and influencers who shape the decision-making of accountants, CPAs and finance professionals. Today we ask: Are business owners any closer to receiving proactive advice from accountants? You'll hear insightful and passionate answers from these 5 experts and influencers: Laurence Whittam | Consultant enhancing CPA firms' outsourcing efficiency and ensuring global readiness Leo Ebbert | at CPADigitalPro, using digital marketing to recruit top accounting talent Leslie Shiner | Provides top-level consulting, helping businesses maximize profits and gain financial control Lexy Kessler | Leader at Aprio, advising businesses and changemakers in Mid-Atlantic region Wayne Schmidt | Launched Xero Australia in 2009 and now a digital nomad Tune into more on this weekly show for short, sharp episodes that keep you informed of what's happening in the accounting world and the whole ecosystem of consultants, organizations, vendors and advisors who serve them. This episode was first published in an earlier season of this podcast. ◣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━◢ If you'd like to sponsor the show and elevate your brand with our audience, reach out to show host Rob Brown on LinkedIn and his team will reach out to fix up a chat to explore. https://www.linkedin.com/in/therobbrown You can also check out other Accounting Influencers Shows on YouTube: https://bit.ly/AI-youtube To learn more about the Accounting Influencers Roundtable or AIR, a community of experts, tech providers, software vendors, consultants and professionals serving the accounting profession, go to https://accountinginfluencers.com You might qualify for a golden ticket for one of our members meetings to see what AIR is all about. Great for building your personal brand, sourcing strategic partners and making valuable industry connections.

    10 min
  2. 04/14/2025

    Navigating Complexity: The Accountant’s New Role

    Ep: 34 Top experts answer: "Are business owners any closer to receiving proactive advice from accountants?" The Accounting Answers Podcast, hosted by Rob Brown, asks critical questions of the experts, leaders and influencers who shape the decision-making of accountants, CPAs and finance professionals. Today we ask: Are business owners any closer to receiving proactive advice from accountants? You'll hear insightful and passionate answers from these 5 experts and influencers: Karen Chalmers | interVal's VP Marketing, helping firms grow revenue efficiently with AI Kate Serpe | Former CAS leader and recovering accountant, current SIAP Partner Executive Katie Thomas | Helping accountants stand out online and owner of Leaders Online Ken Schmitt | Recruiter, Author, Podcast Host and Founder of TurningPoint Executive Search Kevin Steel | Founder @ ClarendonFS: Fractional CFO & Strategy for B2B Service Companies Tune into more on this weekly show for short, sharp episodes that keep you informed of what's happening in the accounting world and the whole ecosystem of consultants, organizations, vendors and advisors who serve them. This episode was first published in an earlier season of this podcast. ◣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━◢ If you'd like to sponsor the show and elevate your brand with our audience, reach out to show host Rob Brown on LinkedIn and his team will reach out to fix up a chat to explore. https://www.linkedin.com/in/therobbrown You can also check out other Accounting Influencers Shows on YouTube: https://bit.ly/AI-youtube To learn more about the Accounting Influencers Roundtable or AIR, a community of experts, tech providers, software vendors, consultants and professionals serving the accounting profession, go to https://accountinginfluencers.com You might qualify for a golden ticket for one of our members meetings to see what AIR is all about. Great for building your personal brand, sourcing strategic partners and making valuable industry connections.

    12 min
  3. 04/07/2025

    Embracing Change: Accountants as Pioneers of Progress

    Ep: 33 Top experts answer: "Are business owners any closer to receiving proactive advice from accountants?" The Accounting Answers Podcast, hosted by Rob Brown, asks critical questions of the experts, leaders and influencers who shape the decision-making of accountants, CPAs and finance professionals. Today we ask: Are business owners any closer to receiving proactive advice from accountants? You'll hear insightful and passionate answers from these 5 experts and influencers: John Glasgow | The CEO at Campfire who is building modern accounting software John Thompson | Radical advocate for Primary Advisory and the value of accountants Jon Jenkins | CEO & Founder Hindsight, starting client conversations for accountants Jonathan Mifsud | Co-Founder at Buddy, Changing Payroll Tech for Accounting Practices Julie Wilkinson | Specialist M&A Advisor helping businesses successfully buy and sell businesses Tune into more on this weekly show for short, sharp episodes that keep you informed of what's happening in the accounting world and the whole ecosystem of consultants, organizations, vendors and advisors who serve them. This episode was first published in an earlier season of this podcast. ◣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━◢ If you'd like to sponsor the show and elevate your brand with our audience, reach out to show host Rob Brown on LinkedIn and his team will reach out to fix up a chat to explore. https://www.linkedin.com/in/therobbrown You can also check out other Accounting Influencers Shows on YouTube: https://bit.ly/AI-youtube To learn more about the Accounting Influencers Roundtable or AIR, a community of experts, tech providers, software vendors, consultants and professionals serving the accounting profession, go to https://accountinginfluencers.com You might qualify for a golden ticket for one of our members meetings to see what AIR is all about. Great for building your personal brand, sourcing strategic partners and making valuable industry connections.

    9 min
  4. 03/31/2025

    The Strategic Accountant: Guiding Businesses to Success

    Ep: 32 Top experts answer: "Are business owners any closer to receiving proactive advice from accountants?" The Accounting Answers Podcast, hosted by Rob Brown, asks critical questions of the experts, leaders and influencers who shape the decision-making of accountants, CPAs and finance professionals. Today we ask: Are business owners any closer to receiving proactive advice from accountants? You'll hear insightful and passionate answers from these 5 experts and influencers: Jessica Freiburg | Managing Partner of leading Chicago accounting firm Sassetti LLC Jim Bourke | Partner @ Withum & Global Advisory Leader at HLB International Jody Grunden | Partner and Virtual CFO Practice Leaders Anders CPA + Advisors Joe Woodard | Woodard CEO and host of the Scaling New Heights Conference John Fenton | The CEO Sensei empowering accounting pros to amplify their leadership Tune into more on this weekly show for short, sharp episodes that keep you informed of what's happening in the accounting world and the whole ecosystem of consultants, organizations, vendors and advisors who serve them. This episode was first published in an earlier season of this podcast. ◣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━◢ If you'd like to sponsor the show and elevate your brand with our audience, reach out to show host Rob Brown on LinkedIn and his team will reach out to fix up a chat to explore. https://www.linkedin.com/in/therobbrown You can also check out other Accounting Influencers Shows on YouTube: https://bit.ly/AI-youtube To learn more about the Accounting Influencers Roundtable or AIR, a community of experts, tech providers, software vendors, consultants and professionals serving the accounting profession, go to https://accountinginfluencers.com You might qualify for a golden ticket for one of our members meetings to see what AIR is all about. Great for building your personal brand, sourcing strategic partners and making valuable industry connections.

    10 min
  5. 03/24/2025

    Data-Driven Decisions: The Future of Accounting Advisory

    Ep: 31 Top experts answer: "Are business owners any closer to receiving proactive advice from accountants?" The Accounting Answers Podcast, hosted by Rob Brown, asks critical questions of the experts, leaders and influencers who shape the decision-making of accountants, CPAs and finance professionals. Today we ask: Are business owners any closer to receiving proactive advice from accountants? You'll hear insightful and passionate answers from these 5 experts and influencers: Jeff Gramlich | CPA, Head of Accounting at Validis and 40-year industry veteran Jeff Phillips | CEO of Padgett, Founder of Accountingfly and accounting talent expert Tune into more on this weekly show for short, sharp episodes that keep you informed of what's happening in the accounting world and the whole ecosystem of consultants, organizations, vendors and advisors who serve them. This episode was first published in an earlier season of this podcast. ◣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━◢ If you'd like to sponsor the show and elevate your brand with our audience, reach out to show host Rob Brown on LinkedIn and his team will reach out to fix up a chat to explore. https://www.linkedin.com/in/therobbrown You can also check out other Accounting Influencers Shows on YouTube: https://bit.ly/AI-youtube To learn more about the Accounting Influencers Roundtable or AIR, a community of experts, tech providers, software vendors, consultants and professionals serving the accounting profession, go to https://accountinginfluencers.com You might qualify for a golden ticket for one of our members meetings to see what AIR is all about. Great for building your personal brand, sourcing strategic partners and making valuable industry connections.

    10 min
  6. 03/17/2025

    The Evolution of Accounting: New Tools, Rules & Roles

    Ep: 30 Top experts answer: "Will the next generation of accountants be any different from their predecessors?" The Accounting Answers Podcast, hosted by Rob Brown, asks critical questions of the experts, leaders and influencers who shape the decision-making of accountants, CPAs and finance professionals. Today we ask: Will the next generation of accountants be any different from their predecessors? You'll hear insightful and passionate answers from these 5 experts and influencers: Itamar Jobani | CEO of PayEm, the innovative Global Spend Management Platform Jack Flaherty | CEO at The Decision Switch, empowering Decisive and Innovative Leaders James Webb | Head of partnerships at insights & data platform Pulse Jasen Stine | Thought leader, writer, and speaker on current and future trends Jeff Borschowa | Strategist, innovator, disruptor, visionary embracing change in an interesting world Tune into more on this weekly show for short, sharp episodes that keep you informed of what's happening in the accounting world and the whole ecosystem of consultants, organizations, vendors and advisors who serve them. This episode was first published in an earlier season of this podcast. ◣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━◢ If you'd like to sponsor the show and elevate your brand with our audience, reach out to show host Rob Brown on LinkedIn and his team will reach out to fix up a chat to explore. https://www.linkedin.com/in/therobbrown You can also check out other Accounting Influencers Shows on YouTube: https://bit.ly/AI-youtube To learn more about the Accounting Influencers Roundtable or AIR, a community of experts, tech providers, software vendors, consultants and professionals serving the accounting profession, go to https://accountinginfluencers.com You might qualify for a golden ticket for one of our members meetings to see what AIR is all about. Great for building your personal brand, sourcing strategic partners and making valuable industry connections.

    11 min
  7. 03/10/2025

    Empowering Future Accountants: Skills for a New World

    Ep: 29 Top experts answer: "Will the next generation of accountants be any different from their predecessors?" The Accounting Answers Podcast, hosted by Rob Brown, asks critical questions of the experts, leaders and influencers who shape the decision-making of accountants, CPAs and finance professionals. Today we ask: Will the next generation of accountants be any different from their predecessors? You'll hear insightful and passionate answers from these 5 experts and influencers: Geni Whitehouse | Keynote presenter, CPA, Winery consultant, President of Information Technology Alliance Greg Kautz | Finance and technology executive of a lease accounting software company Harriet Formby | Founder of BelowTheLineFinance, Holistic CFO & Purpose-Led Business Advisor Heath Alloway | Director at Upstream Academy and servant leader for career professionals Hitendra Patil | President at Datamatics CPA Outsourcing, Top 100 Influencer, Author, Speaker Tune into more on this weekly show for short, sharp episodes that keep you informed of what's happening in the accounting world and the whole ecosystem of consultants, organizations, vendors and advisors who serve them. This episode was first published in an earlier season of this podcast. ◣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━◢ If you'd like to sponsor the show and elevate your brand with our audience, reach out to show host Rob Brown on LinkedIn and his team will reach out to fix up a chat to explore. https://www.linkedin.com/in/therobbrown You can also check out other Accounting Influencers Shows on YouTube: https://bit.ly/AI-youtube To learn more about the Accounting Influencers Roundtable or AIR, a community of experts, tech providers, software vendors, consultants and professionals serving the accounting profession, go to https://accountinginfluencers.com You might qualify for a golden ticket for one of our members meetings to see what AIR is all about. Great for building your personal brand, sourcing strategic partners and making valuable industry connections.

    11 min
  8. 03/03/2025

    Accounting in the AI Age: Preparing Them for Tomorrow

    Ep: 28 Top experts answer: "Will the next generation of accountants be any different from their predecessors?" The Accounting Answers Podcast, hosted by Rob Brown, asks critical questions of the experts, leaders and influencers who shape the decision-making of accountants, CPAs and finance professionals. Today we ask: Will the next generation of accountants be any different from their predecessors? You'll hear insightful and passionate answers from these 5 experts and influencers: Ellen Choi | Co-founder of Aiwyn, bringing practice automation tech to accountants Eric Gregg | CEO of ClearlyRated, exclusive client experience intel for accounting firms Eriona Bajrakurtaj | CEO, Major's Accounts, Accounting Leader and Early Tech Adopter Gary Boomer | Founder/Dot Connector at Boomer Consulting Zane Stevens | Thought leader, podcaster, and account business owner helping wineries succeed Tune into more on this weekly show for short, sharp episodes that keep you informed of what's happening in the accounting world and the whole ecosystem of consultants, organizations, vendors and advisors who serve them. This episode was first published in an earlier season of this podcast. ◣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━◢ If you'd like to sponsor the show and elevate your brand with our audience, reach out to show host Rob Brown on LinkedIn and his team will reach out to fix up a chat to explore. https://www.linkedin.com/in/therobbrown You can also check out other Accounting Influencers Shows on YouTube: https://bit.ly/AI-youtube To learn more about the Accounting Influencers Roundtable or AIR, a community of experts, tech providers, software vendors, consultants and professionals serving the accounting profession, go to https://accountinginfluencers.com You might qualify for a golden ticket for one of our members meetings to see what AIR is all about. Great for building your personal brand, sourcing strategic partners and making valuable industry connections.

    11 min

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Brought to you by Rightworks, the ACCOUNTING ANSWERS PODCAST is hosted by Rob Brown, co-founder of the Accounting Influencers Roundtable (AIR). On this weekly show with short, sharp episodes, Rob asks 110 experts and influencers the critical questions shaping the accounting profession. It keeps you informed of what's happening in the accounting world and the whole ecosystem of consultants, organizations, vendors and advisors who serve them. Go to https://www.rightworks.com for secure, remote access to all your core apps, all in one place. Special deals and discounts for accounting professional and firms, plus a community of high quality content and resources to grow your firm. ________________ Host Rob Brown is a renowned presenter, facilitator and chair of high-level conferences, panels and events globally for the accounting and fintech profession. He is retained by many professional networks, alliances, associations, practices and vendors to chair their events and provide high-level interview content for their communities. He is a dynamic speaker and accomplished expert on trust, reputation, employer brand, talent, career development, succession, gen z/generations, employee advocacy and executive presence. https://www.linkedin.com/in/therobbrown/ Rob is author of the bestselling book Build Your Reputation (Wiley) and his TEDx talk ‘The Personal Brand of You’ has been viewed over 300,000 times on YouTube. He is a stroke survivor, has epilepsy, is a committed Christian and has a black belt in kickboxing. He is based in Nottingham UK, home of Robin Hood, plays chess and backgammon, loves orange chocolate and is allergic to grapefruit. https://www.linkedin.com/company/accountinginfluencers https://bit.ly/AI-youtube