Future-Proof

Today we’re discussing why accounting and finance professionals have a lot to gain from adopting an entrepreneurial mindset. Entrepreneurship isn’t something that many accounting and finance pros have a lot of experience with, but we’re in an era when at least thinking like an entrepreneur can go a long way toward becoming more future-ready. Entrepreneurs just look at the world differently, and adapting an entrepreneur’s mindset might help us evolve a little faster and become just a little more future-ready. Our guest David Mammano is the founder of the Avanti Entrepreneur Group, headquartered just outside of Rochester, NY, but open to entrepreneurs everywhere. He’s basically trying to build a huge community of entrepreneurs who can learn from one another, share resources and best practices and war stories, and support each other on their entrepreneurial journeys. To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit blionline.org/blog. Resources: Learn more at AvantiEntrepreneurGroup.com Avanti Entrepreneur Podcast: http://avantientrepreneurgroup.com/podcasts-home Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DavidMammanoFan/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidMammano Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidcmammano/ Entrepreneurial Operating System: StrategyX.BLIonline.org Start mastering future-ready skills now at MACPA.org/future-learning Future-Proof is produced by Podcast Masters

We hope you have your thinking caps on, because today we’re going to be talking about education in this episode – and this is probably the right thing to be talking about for the accounting and finance profession! We talk about skills quite frequently on this show – the skills we’re going to need to remain relevant in a changing and complex world – so it seems appropriate that we spend some time talking about where we’re going to be getting these skills, and who’s gonna be teaching them to us. So... should accounting education change to reflect our changing reality? And if so, how should it change? And how quickly should it change? These are the questions that we explore with Kelly Richmond Pope, a Ph.D., a CPA, and an associate professor at the School of Accountancy and Management Information Systems at DePaul University, where her research focuses on organizational misconduct, ethics, fraud, and how organizations can design cultures and compliance systems to confront these challenges. She has some really interesting ideas about how accounting education needs evolve to better prepare students for the evolving profession they’re about to enter. To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit blionline.org/blog. Resources: Learn more at https://www.kellyrichmondpope.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-richmond-pope-cpa-83689a5/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kellyrpope Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kellyrpope/ Start mastering Future-Ready skills now at MACPA.org/future-learning Future-Proof is produced by Podcast Masters

Everyone talks about the importance of collaboration, but what does it really mean? Working together? Teamwork? Sharing ideas? It’s one of those things that’s hard to define, but we know it when we see it. And because of that, it’s something that everyone defines differently. But here’s the thing – every list of the most crucial future-ready skills for our profession includes collaboration. Every single one. So we have to figure out a definition that everyone can embrace. And here to help us figure that out is Rebekah Brown, the director of development with the Maryland Association of CPAs and a thought leader with the Business Learning Institute. She is as passionate and optimistic about the future of accounting and finance as anyone I know, and she has seen first-hand how powerful collaboration can be within our ever-evolving profession, particularly among our younger professionals. To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit blionline.org/blog. Resources: Start mastering Future-Ready skills now at MACPA.org/future-learning LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebekahbrown Read: “Human skills need to sharpen to coexist with machines” Future-Proof is produced by Podcast Masters

Just how busy are you? We’re all busy. Some would argue that we, collectively, are busier than ever before – but the reason that’s true isn’t necessarily because we have more work to do than ever. We all make time for the stuff that’s really important and valuable to us. So if we find ourselves really busy with things that aren’t important or valuable, that just means, to paraphrase Ferris Bueller, that our priorities are way out of whack, and we’ve got to do something to get them back in line. You need to be spending as much time as possible on the things that you love to do and that you’re great at. That’s your sweet spot, and that’s where your organization needs you to be spending most of your time because they’ll get the most bang for their buck with you there. The other stuff? You need to eventually be able to delegate that away so you can spend your valuable time doing things that truly add value. Our guest this week is someone who has built a growing global business that’s designed to help accounting and finance pros do exactly that – free up their time so they can provide higher-value services for their clients and customers. Nick Sinclair is the Chairman of The Outsourced Accountant, which has more than 1,100 team members spread out across the United States, Australia, and the Philippines. They serve clients in 8 countries currently, and what they do is entirely based on the premise of getting the right people doing the right work. To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit blionline.org/blog. Resources: Learn more at TheOutsourcedAccountant.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicksinclair/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/nickqsinclair Future-Proof is produced by Podcast Masters