The Longest-Serving AICPA CEO on What Comes Next | Barry Melancon
The biggest challenge facing accounting firms isn't learning AI.It's helping junior accountants build six years of business acumen in a fraction of the time.Former AICPA CEO Barry Melancon discusses t...
31 Jul 46min
Why Small Firms No Longer Need a Big Budget to Win
"We can't go out and just upload tax returns to ChatGPT because it's gonna be faster." Barry Brown, founder of EBITDA Advisors, joins Kacee Johnson and Bebe Kim to explain why the future belongs to fi...
8 Jul 36min
Pascal Finette on What Clients Pay Accountants For, Outlearning AI and the Future of Firms
Were we wrong about how AI would change work?Pascal Finette, Co-Founder & Chief Heretic of radical, joins Kacee Johnson to explore why AI is impacting cognitive work faster than routine work and what ...
17 Jun 43min
Why Culture Beats Capital in Building Independent CPA Firms | Carla McCall
“You're not going to take an old process and fit it into a new tech box.”Carla McCall believes the firms struggling most with AI are often the ones trying hardest to preserve the way they’ve always op...
27 Mai 42min
A Top 20 Accounting Firm's AI Playbook, Without the Hype | Tom DeMayo, PKF
Most accounting firms are jumping into AI headfirst, buying tools, chasing models, and wondering why nothing is sticking.Thomas DeMayo, AI lead at PKF O'Connor Davies, one of the top 20 accounting fir...
6 Mai 35min
Accounting’s Biggest Shift in 100 Years | Allan Koltin
If AI can deliver the outputs, why would clients still pay for the accountant?Allan Koltin, CEO of Koltin Consulting Group, joins Kacee Johnson to explore how accounting firms must evolve from service...
20 Apr 47min
The AI Advantage Accounting Firms Aren't Seeing Yet
We may be overestimating AI adoption today, and underestimating its long-term impact.Kimberly Ellison-Taylor, Founder and CEO of KET Solutions LLC and past Chair of the AICPA, joins Kacee Johnson to e...
25 Mar 46min
PE, M&A, and AI: What Accounting Firms Need to Know Now for 2026
In accounting, complexity has never been higher, and neither has opportunity.With Top 100 firms growing 8.58% in 2025, Daniel Hood, Editor-in-Chief of Accounting Today, joins Kacee Johnson to unpack w...
4 Mar 39min
