Accounting practice, explained with professional calm.
Journal of Accountancy Podcast turns accounting issues, small-firm practice, tax policy, and professional risk into structured conversations. Neil Amato guides guests through practical implications for firms, CFOs, and professionals managing change.
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Journal of Accountancy Podcast is a professional interview series for people whose work sits inside accounting, tax, finance, and firm management. The show has a newsroom-adjacent rhythm. Neil Amato typically sets the context, identifies the guest's connection to a Journal of Accountancy article, conference session, report, or AICPA concern, then lets the conversation build through concrete follow-ups. It is measured, but not dry. Recent episodes range from shutdown worries and IRS service to small-firm technology, bank fraud, professional liability, CFO team design, retirement planning, and dealership M&A. The common thread is usefulness. Guests are asked to explain what a development means for practitioners, clients, firms, taxpayers, or finance teams that have to act on it. A discussion of engagement letters becomes a practical lesson in matching scope, work papers, and deliverables. A conversation about financial fraud moves from ancient Greece to current mitigation strategies for financial institutions. A retirement episode looks beyond conventional retirement language toward financial independence, peak health years, long-term care, estate planning, pets, and the logistics of aging without children. The show also pays attention to professional life beyond compliance. Episodes on self-awareness and work boundaries connect personal values to better decisions, relationships, and more sustainable careers. CFO-focused conversations examine how the finance role has evolved faster than the teams supporting it. Technology is treated as an operational pressure, not a novelty. AI appears through productivity, small-firm practice, and changing skill demands. Policy episodes are similarly grounded. Melanie Lauridsen's shutdown discussion centers on IRS access, workload compression, backlogs, refunds, and the ordinary frustrations that only the agency can resolve. The style is respectful and structured. Guests get time to answer, while the framing keeps dense material understandable. It suits listeners who want accounting insight with a clear line to practice. It is less personality showcase than professional briefing, with enough warmth to keep complex material human.
Made for: Built for CPAs, tax professionals, CFOs, firm professionals, and accounting students who want practical context around policy, risk, technology, and career issues. It also suits finance professionals tracking how accounting changes affect daily work.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by pairing Journal of Accountancy context with practitioner-level interviews. Rather than chasing hot takes, it translates dense professional developments into implications for firms, clients, compliance, staffing, and leadership.
The Journal of Accountancy podcast discusses the key issues facing the accounting profession.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A clear contemporary record of how accounting leaders respond to policy shifts, workplace change and the profession's evolving demands.
Neil Amato keeps the Journal of Accountancy Podcast close to the people making decisions inside the accounting profession. His interviews move from AICPA leadership and tax advocacy to workplace culture, financial planning and firm transformation.
An IRS shutdown, retirement rethink, and Ozzy walk-up song all land on your professional radar.
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A practical look at retirement when health, work, and money no longer move on one schedule.
Kelly Long treats retirement as a moving target, shaped by younger generations that are rethinking it through financial independence, mini retirements, and a longer working life.
A useful talk about self-knowledge, values, and keeping work from crowding out the rest of life.
The Journal of Accountancy podcast turns a familiar pressure point into a steady discussion of self-awareness, values, and the way work can begin to crowd out life.
A grounded look at how shutdown risk can squeeze IRS service, tax professionals, and taxpayers.
The Journal of Accountancy Podcast treats a possible government shutdown as a practical tax-season problem, not just a political event. Neil Amato's conversation with Melanie Lauridsen keeps the focus on how IRS uncertainty can ripple through filing deadlines, taxpayer service,…
A remote executive weighs work, family, and the practical limits of personal change.
Lindsay Stevenson's remote leadership gives the episode its center, but the real subject is the way work keeps reaching across distance, growth, and a phone that rarely goes quiet.
A leadership interview that makes the PTET fight feel immediate.
Mark Koziel's eighth month as CEO of the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants and president and CEO of the AICPA gives the conversation its backbone, but the opening stretch gives it character.
A clear look at how independent firm leaders signal culture and identity to talent.
Journal of Accountancy's podcast conversation lands on a familiar but useful point: firms that want to stay independent need to build the kind of shop they actually want, not a smaller copy of someone else's. Garrett's point about candidates reading culture quickly feels right.
A calm, practical look at how finance leaders are thinking about what comes next.
From the Future of Finance Summit in San Diego, this episode frames what comes next as a practical planning question for finance leaders, educators, consultants, government staff, and nonprofit teams.
Phoebe Judge narrates true crime history and interviews the authors who uncovered it.
Dramatized deep dives into American history, from the Galveston hurricane to Harper Lee's Mockingbird.
Dana Schwartz narrates the violent lives of monarchs, warlords, and queens.
Tracy Wilson and Holly Frey narrate overlooked history, from Courbet's realism to IUD regulation.
Mike Duncan narrates Rome's full history solo, from Aeneas to Romulus Augustulus's exile in 476.
The Journal of Accountancy podcast hosts Neil Amato, John Garrett, and April Walker discuss fostering workplace culture in accounting.
Host Neil Amato records from the Future of Finance Summit in San Diego, interviewing four CPA leaders.
This episode discusses the quarterly Eye on Fraud report from the AICPA's FVS section, focusing on fraud detection and financial tracing.
Chief transformation officer Lindsay Stevenson discusses how her firm BPM successfully manages a large virtual workforce from her remote location in South Dakota.
Tax expert Annette Nellen discusses the upcoming National Tax Conference and the impact of new tax legislation on tax professionals in the AI era.
Kelly Long opens by reframing how younger workers think about retirement.
A podcast episode discussing how small firms are adopting technology and the implications for finance professionals, featuring an interview with Stephanie Otero from AICPA.
Sarah Ferentz discusses lessons from CPA firms dealing with bankrupt clients and the importance of documentation and engagement letters.
CFO Wasea Khaman discusses her upcoming session on structuring finance teams for strategic impact at the April CFO conference.
CPA David Stone discusses the history of financial fraud from ancient Greece to modern AI-driven schemes and mitigation strategies for financial institutions.
Neil Amato opens with Andrea Miller, a CPA who holds the PFS designation.
Melanie Lauridsen says the IRS contingency plan gives "zero information" while the shutdown reaches its fifth business day.
Experts discuss M&A, AI, and EV trends impacting auto dealerships ahead of the AICPA Dealership Conference.
A podcast episode promoting a webcast on AI's impact on tax and finance professionals, followed by an interview with tax expert Annette Nellen.
On the Journal of Accountancy Podcast, Lindsay Stevenson of BPM explains how working remotely from South Dakota became practical as BPM grew from about 750 colleagues in 2021 to roughly 1,250, including more than 700 in its virtual region.
Neil Amato opens by noting Mark Koziel's eighth month on the job as CEO of the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants and president and CEO of the AICPA, then frames it with a light walk-up-song question.