AccelPro | Audit

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development.  Today we’re featuring a conversation with Jim Pelletier, Senior Product manager at Wolters Kluwer.  Pelletier talks us through gathering effective data for ESG reporting, why it's important for auditors to develop relationships with other operational leaders, and how they can de...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development.  Today we’re featuring a conversation with Danielle Brannock, Manager of Data Analytics at Intuitive Surgical.  Brannock talks about the huge increase in efficiency which automation has brought to data analytics, liberating many professionals from rote tasks and allowing them to...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Mike Callino, Senior Director of Internal Audit at Braze.  We discuss the benefits of introducing new technologies into the audit process. Callino explains how implementing new methodologies, such as Agile, can increase successful collabo...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Chanpreet Singh, Director of Internal Audit & SOX at Ouster. An accomplished risk and control leader, Singh provides valuable insight on how artificial intelligence and automation is improving the audit space, as well as what auditors nee...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Howard Scheck. A dual CPA/JD, Scheck is both an accountant and a lawyer, which has led to a fascinating career. Currently, Scheck is a partner with the StoneTurn Group where he helps firms with financial reporting related issues and inves...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Veena Brown, Associate Professor of Accounting and program director at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.  We discuss the need to address unconscious bias in the audit and accounting industries, as well as support and encourage studen...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about professional skepticism and fraud. Our guest is Joe Brazel, Distinguished Professor of Accounting and North Carolina State University.  Given auditors are paid by the very companies they’re supposed to be checking up on, complicated ince...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Tim Coville, associate professor of accounting at St. John’s University.  ESG is an undoubtedly hot (if controversial) topic in the business world as companies and regulators wrestle with what businesses should disclose about their enviro...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Mark Beasley, Professor of Enterprise Risk Management and the Director of the Enterprise Risk Management Initiative at the Poole College of Management.  Beasley is an innovative thought leader in the area of Enterprise Risk Management (ER...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Matt Johnson, U. S. National Technology Assurance Leader at KPMG.  Thanks to artificial intelligence, blockchain and the rise of remote work and advanced analytics, the technology companies use to get work done and serve customers is evol...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Laura Mitchell, Principal at Jackson Lewis.  When it comes to reporting around ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance), the ‘E’ often gets most of the attention as companies wrestle with new rules and guidelines around carbon emissions...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Dennis McGowan, Vice President, Professional Practice at the Center for Audit Quality.  On this podcast previously we’ve had a pair of guests — former PCAOB board member Jay Brown and academic Luigi Zingales —  come out strongly in favor...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Chris Chung, SVP Business Assessment and Chief Audit Executive at The Doctors Company, the nation's largest physician owned medical malpractice insurer.   Chung, who previously worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers and focused on enhancing gov...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Luigi Zingales, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.  For auditors to properly gauge how much effort they should devote to searching out fraud, it would be helpful to know exactl...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Jeanna Doherty, ESG Enablement Leader at EY Americas. In her role at EY, Doherty helps the firm’s clients and client teams understand and prepare to comply with the fast-changing regulations around ESG reporting, both in the US and abroad...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Jay Brown, Lawrence W. Treece Professor of Corporate Governance at University of Denver and former Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) board member.  When the PCAOB released its priorities for inspections in 2023, fraud topp...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with David Gelles, reporter on the New York Times climate team and leader of The Times’s Climate Forward newsletter and events series . Here on AccelPro Audit we usually talk to auditors, regulators, academics and regulators. But today we’re t...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Guylaine Saint Juste, the CEO of the National Association of Black Accountants.  Saint Juste is former banking executive at Capital One, where she oversaw small business strategy and led various aspects of business banking, including tale...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about digital transformation in the accounting and audit space. Our guest is Ben Richmond, Country Manager, United States at Xero, one of the leading providers of cloud-based accounting software.  The work of auditors and accountants used to b...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. This interview is part of our AccelPro Career Tools series, where we focus on the trends, topics and advice most useful to managing your career. Our host is internationally recognized journalist, author and NPR host Celeste Headlee. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Tusha...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Dr. Damion McIntosh, Professor of Practice Finance at Auburn University and an advisor with the International Monetary Fund. As the former deputy director of the Jamaican Central Bank’s Bank Regulatory Policy Department, Damion brings a w...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Dr. Damion McIntosh, Professor of Practice Finance at Auburn University.  McIntosh, who formerly worked at the Central Bank of Jamaica, brings an international perspective to his work. His experience in different areas of the financial sy...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Cassandra Estep, Assistant Professor of Accounting at Emory University Goizueta Business School.  As companies have grown more complex over the last few decades, so have their financial statements. In response, auditors have had to bring...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Bob Hirth, Senior Managing Director at Protiviti.  As KPMG audit partner at KPMG Anita Chan explained when she spoke to AccelAudit Pro, one of the biggest challenges facing companies in regards to ESG reporting is the “alphabet soup” of d...

Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Christopher Calvin, Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Dayton. Calvin, a former Deloitte employee, digs into the diverse skills that auditors need today, and the challenges offinding and retaining talent in the field....