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FEI Podcast — 174 episodes

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From Job Fear to Competitive Edge: How One CFO Is Leading with AI – with Kevina Purmanund

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Why CFOs Can't Just Layer AI on Broken Processes – with CohnReznick

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Evolution of the Finance Function: Leading Strategy, AI, and Transformation

4

Building Resilience and Relevance: Brenda Zamzow on Leadership and Relationships

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Dana Bober on Strategy, AI, and Leading Finance Transformation

6

How 3M’s Corporate Controller Leads Finance at Hyperspeed

7

Leadership Lessons from Microsoft CAO Alice Jolla

8

Catherine Hoovel: AI, Empathetic Leadership, and Designing a Purpose-Driven Next Chapter

9

From Grit to Leadership: Muneera Carr on Range, Results, and the Future of Finance

10

From Street Vendor to CFO: The Resilience Playbook Every Financial Leader Needs

11

Episode 175: Don’t Ask, Don’t Get: Patti Humble on Career Courage, Strategy, and Rewiring What’s Next

12

From Center Stage to the Front Lines: CFO Leadership on a Life-Saving Mission

13

The State of B2B Payments: How Finance Leaders Are Driving Digital Transformation

14

Unlocking Strategic Advantage: The Transformative Power of Outsourcing Finance Functions

15

From Forecasts to Finance Bots: EY’s Sam Peterson on the AI-Powered Future of Accounting

16

AI Agents in Action: Real-World Applications and Top Misconceptions Debunked

17

Lease Accounting in Transition

18

Turn the CSRD delay into a strategic business win. Learn what steps you need to take

19

Avoiding the Trap of AI Washing

20

XBRL is Dead

21

CPAs, licensing, and the cost-benefit of the 150-Hour Rule with Dr. Edward Timmons of West Virginia University

22

Trade, trust and battling fraud with Allianz Trade America’s James Daly

23

AI in finance: making your job easier and more enjoyable

24

Crypto payments and security basics for financial executives, part 2 with Dr. Suzanne Morsfield

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Crypto's pick your coin, pick your own accounting adeventure with Dr. Suzanne Morsfield

26

What will be your leadership legacy?

27

PCAOB's enforcement past and its unknown future with Cornerstone’s Jean-Philippe Poissant and Russell Molter

28

Never let your network go stale with Moody's Caroline Sullivan

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AI and tech to drive 2025 agenda with Forvis Mazars

30

"Standards must be proportionate to the problem we're trying to solve," with PCAOB's Christina Ho

31

Unlocking ESG success: The power of peer networking

32

Change is not a "nice to have" in ESG with ServiceNow's Mark Spinner

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Episode 155: Understanding the risk and building for the future with CBRE’s Scott Song and S&P’s Theshan Goble

34

What directors and management are planning for in 2025 with BDO’s Amy Rojik

35

A new EU disclosure rule that will have a global impact with Latham & Watkins’ Toon Dictus

36

Supply chains, port strikes and the new near shoring with KPMG’s Mary Rollman

37

Private credit and jumping into a dark debt market with Harvard’s Jared Ellias

38

ESG Controllership and making something new with Mastercard's Tarynn Zenk

39

Forecasting the future of AI in financial planning and analysis with QueBit’s Justin Croft

40

How to think about China, conflict and “fears of the future” with The University of Virginia’s Dale Copeland

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ICONS: We all start in over our heads

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ICONS: Don't hide your mistakes

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The pipeline won't fix itself

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ICONS: The power of positive self-talk

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ICONS: Build your network before you need it

46

Inspiring change through storytelling

47

Earth Day 24 and the future of ESG and carbon reporting with Persefoni’s Mike Wallace

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ICONS: The gift of flexibility

49

Evan Goldberg On 25 Years of NetSuite And Where ERP Heads In The Future

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ICONS: Update your dreams as you go

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What’s the future of the ESG finance and accounting career with Acre’s Catherine Harris

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ICONS: Networking is in my job description

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ESG and the bigger natural capital accounting movement with Carnegie Mellon’s Nicholas Muller

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The skills no one can take from you

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Finance and accounting needs tech acceptance and change champions with Gartner’s Mallory Barg Bulman

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Faster money, faster problems

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The old IPO playbook will not work in the new market with Oracle NetSuite’s Ranga Bodla and Sam Levy

58

The longer the accounting shortage continues the worse things will get with the University of Maryland’s Dr. Rebecca Hann

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Harnessing the power of conflict

60

The executive’s guide to trustworthiness

61

A new brand of ambition

62

The anatomy of an offer

63

Interview like a pro

64

Your resume and LinkedIn profile need work

65

The encouraging, but not surprising, spread of AI in financial audits with KPMG’s Thomas Mackenzie

66

Auditing your holiday meal and accounting for a global food crisis with Dr. Lisa Jack

67

What California’s new sustainability disclosure laws mean for coming SEC rules with Persefoni’s Kristina Wyatt

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Leveraging automation in the close and taking the mystery out of tech in accounting with FinOptimal’s Jesse Rubenfeld and Tom Zehentner

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Weighing The Cost of Success

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How AI will change small finance teams and accounting careers with NetSuite’s Paul Farrell and Tom Kelly

71

Why finance and procurement need to collaborate for success with Fine Tune’s Matthew Smith

72

Looking past the paycheck

73

AI, SOX and getting control of internal controls with Protiviti's Andrew Struthers-Kennedy

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Will hot strike summer heat up the human capital debate? with Harvard’s Ethan Rouen

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Sustainability means new skills for a new generation of professionals with Jeff Hales

76

Tractor Supply’s Kris Bybee on middle-American finance, the explosion in rural lifestyle brands and the happiness of “Chick Days”

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We are making some changes

78

What a new finance workforce lacks, leaders need to teach

79

Can Apprenticeships Fix An Accounting Pipeline That’s Drying Up?

80

Accounting fraud and how to model it with Dr. Daniel Beneish

81

Commercial real estate: warning signs and opportunities with EisnerAmper’s Lisa Knee

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Bedrock AI’s Kris Bennatti on adapting language models to filings, disclosure “inflation” and replacing critical audit matters with 💩

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Episode 103: Generative AI and Finance: Opportunities and Challenges

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Governments vs. The League Of Extraordinary Accounting Measures

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Using "Water Accounting" to Understand California's Balance Sheet

86

How Can Organizations Drive Operational Resilience?

87

Revisiting The Fair Value Debate

88

Are You Ready For The SEC's Climate Disclosure Rule?

89

Fixing The Bank Disclosure/Panic Feedback Loop

90

Diversify But Verify: Commercial Banking After SVB

91

Stopping Finance and Accounting Exodus

92

China Reset: IPOs, Mergers and Audits

93

Why Are Students Leaving Accounting?

94

Beyoncé Has an Accountant

95

Digital Transformation In a Time of Uncertainty

96

Can Renewable Energy Save Us?

97

Linking Finance and Human Resources For Better Planning

98

The Future of the Global Energy Infrastructure

99

ESG Strategy: Challenges, Pitfalls and Being Tangible

100

Coming Out and Being An Ally In the Finance Suite

101

Getting Finance In Sync

102

Mental Health In Finance and Accounting

103

Episode 83: Financial Services Facing the Unknown

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Episode 82: The Changing Face of Consumer Credit

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Adapting and Creating Value Through FP&A

106

Episode 81: Payment Services

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Episode 80: How to Modernize and Digitize Finance

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A New World Needs a New Way to Close

109

Episode 78: Auditing a Company's Civil Rights Record

110

Proxy Season is ESG Season

111

Putting a SOC in Crypto

112

FEI Engage 101: China Accounting and Audit

113

Episode 73: Inflation, Currency Volatility and Your Balance Sheet in 2022

114

Why Media Finance Matters More Than Ever

115

Episode 66: The Next Battleground In The Trade Revolution

116

Empty Spaces Full of Risk

117

How Finance Can Keep Live Entertainment Alive

118

Episode 69: Rise of the Streaming Culture and Art of the COVID Pivot

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Balancing And Changing While Growing Fast In Finance

120

Gaining Inclusivity, Battling Isolation: Crowe Quarterly Insight

121

Inflation Accounting and Accounting for Inflation

122

Your Cash Flows Don't Make Any Sense

123

Banks and CECL's Future

124

Episode 61: Digitization and How to Finance the News

125

Episode 60: Sustainability Disclosure "Must Be Done" With Existing Rules

126

Episode 52: Tax Proposal Targeting Silicon Valley

127

Episode 51: Fraud in the Time of COVID

128

Episode 50: Government Controllers Speak

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Episode 49: Navigating One City’s Financial Future 2021

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Episode 48: Crypto On the Balance Sheet

131

Episode 47: The Growing Role of the Federal Government

132

Episode 42: Making SPACs Work: The Crowe Quarterly Podcast

133

Episode 46: FowardThinking: One State’s Path to Recovery

134

Episode 45: Speed, Agility and the CFO

135

Episode 44: Big Data and Sustainability Reporting

136

Episode 43: Career and Connection in 2021

137

Episode 41: What Is Extinction Accounting?

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Episode 40: What Financial Executives Really Think About Internal Controls

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Episode 39: Section 230 Reform And Back to The Dystopian Future

140

Episode 38: CECL, Loss Models and the Unintended Consequences of COVID-19

141

Episode 37: Navigating the Impact of PPP and Government Assistance: Crowe Quarterly Update

142

Episode 36: Racial Justice Is a Movement, Not a Moment

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Episode 35: At the Center of the Storm

144

Episode 34: Going on Offense

145

Episode 33: Delivering When It Matters Most

146

Episode 32: Cybersecurity As a Competitive Advantage: Crowe Quarterly Insight

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Four Challenges, Four Leaders

148

Episode 30: Staying Liquid Means Staying Open: Crowe Quarterly Insight

149

Episode 29: Accounting, Tax and Financial Reporting Impacts of COVID-19: Crowe Quarterly Insight

150

Episode 28: Measuring The True Value of ESG Reporting: Crowe Quarterly Insight

151

Episode 27: What's Driving Audit Fees

152

Episode 26: Project Management For Financial Executives

153

Episode 25: Data Strategy Drives Better Quality, Cost Savings

154

Episode 24: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – One Year On

155

Episode 23: A Guide to ICFR by Preparers, for Preparers

156

Episode 22: Where Is Technology Taking Auditing and Accounting?

157

Episode 21: Career Check: A Discussion with CFO Recruiter Samuel Dergel

158

Episode 20: Inline XBRL, Explained

159

Episode 19: Tariffs, Trade Wars and Planning For Uncertainty

160

Episode 15: RPA Is Becoming Finance’s New Norm

161

Episode 16: Technology Is Changing Everything In The Finance Suite: 2018 Benchmarking the Finance Function Preview

162

Episode 13: Career Strategies for Financial Executives in 2018

163

Episode 11: Harassment, Toxic Workplaces and the Role of Leaders

164

Episode 10: The Critical Difference Between Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience

165

Episode 9: Where Will the Next Generation of Financial Executives Come From?

166

Episode 8: Harvey, Houston and Rebuilding as a Financial Executive

167

Episode 7: Five Years Later: Learning the Lessons of the JOBS Act

168

Episode 6: Capital Planning in the Age of Uncertainty

169

Five Years Later: Did the Jobs Act Change the IPO Market (or Did the IPO Market Change the Jobs Act)?

170

Episode 5: Get Control of Your Audit Fees Now With Workiva's Joseph Howell

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Episode 4: Simplification and 2016 Priorities with FASB Vice Chairman James Kroeker

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Episode 3: Confessions of a Startup CFO With Mark MacLeod

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Episode 2: Cybersecurity and the CFO With John Stark

174

Episode 1: Private Healthcare Exchanges With ADP's William Giaconia