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Financial Executives International presents the FEI Weekly Podcast: an audio digest focusing on the ideas and strategies in finance and accounting.
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ESG and the bigger natural capital accounting movement with Carnegie Mellon’s Nicholas Muller
With the recent decision by the US Securities and Exchange Commission around carbon disclosure, it’s important to look at the larger narrative of applying traditional financial valuation methods to natural systems.
That’s where natural capital accounting comes in. At its heart, natural capital accounting is a series of practices – including carbon disclosure– where environmental resources are measured against economic activity. It’s not anything new, per se, but natural capital accounting is becoming part of the larger dialogue about government and private market policy.
In this episode of the podcast we speak with Professor Nicholas Z. Muller, Lester and Judith Lave Professor of Economics, Engineering, and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Muller’s work focuses on the interaction of environment and economic policy including the use of natural capital accounting.
Special Guest: Nicholas Z. Muller. -
The skills no one can take from you
PwC's Kathryn Kaminsky makes an argument for getting your CPA, discusses the value of travel, her work-life-choices, and more.
Special Guest: Kathryn Kaminsky. -
Finance and accounting needs tech acceptance and change champions with Gartner’s Mallory Barg Bulman
With new technologies coming online, it seems almost daily, finance and accounting leaders have been perpetually frustrated by tech’s return on investment and their impact on seemingly intractable issues of financial errors.
But a new report issued by research and consulting firm Gartner says there may be a path for financial leaders to successfully adopt and implement new technologie by focusing internally on the concept of technology acceptance.
In this episode of the podcast we speak with Gartner’s Mallory Barg Bulman about increasing technology acceptance and creating peer-driven “change champions.”
Special Guest: Mallory Barg Bulman. -
Faster money, faster problems
Andrew Davies, global head of regulatory affairs at ComplyAdvantage is a veteran of the financial crime risk management world. We discuss everything from the biggest fraud and AML trends to the role of AI.
Special Guest: Andrew Davies. -
The old IPO playbook will not work in the new market with Oracle NetSuite’s Ranga Bodla and Sam Levy
Anyone that has worked on an IPO knows the amount of preparation, diligence and detail needed for a successful move into the public markets. But a combination of economic headwinds and a spac induced hangover have meant the pipeline cut to a slow drip.
2024 is looking more promising, and that means financial executives tasked with preparing for the transition have already begun planning the work do be done.
In this episode of the FEI Weekly podcast we speak with Oracle NetSuite’s Ranga Bodla and Sam Levy to discuss the outlook for IPOs in 2024 and the tools financial executives will need to be prepared.
Special Guests: Ranga Bodla and Sam Levy. -
The longer the accounting shortage continues the worse things will get with the University of Maryland’s Dr. Rebecca Hann
Whatever the industry thinks of as a possible solution to the declining number of accounting students and professionals, there is near unanimous agreement on the dire consequences of the problem.
Declining financial reporting quality and increased stress on the existing workforce are just two aspects of the fallout.
In this episode of the podcast we speak with Dr. Rebecca Hann, Dean’s Professor of Accounting and the KPMG Term Professor at the University of Maryland’s Robert Smith School of Business about her new research on the crisis in the accounting pipeline and how problems, like poor internal controls and accounting accuracy may worsen over time.
Special Guest: Rebecca Hann.