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Off the Books — 185 episodes
Introducing The Pre-Read: Where CFOs Get Their Edge
The Final Balance
Closing the Books: Pausing Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Climate Disclosures: We Ask a Lawyer What the SEC Did
Off the Books vs MoviePass, MovieCrash
A Deep Dive into 10-K Filings with Nick Mazing
Keys to Acing an Annual Performance Review
The Envelope Please: The Best Accounting Movie Is...
Value Creation Under Pressure: Insights from Global Executives
Is Sustainability Unsustainable?
Return to Office: What’s at Stake for Employees and Employers
Hot Views on Hot News in Accounting and Finance
Behind the 1MDB Scandal with Xavier Justo
Off the Presses: Sounding Off After the Election
Transforming Internal Audit
The SEC vs the Courts
Starting a New Job the Right Way
When ESG Meets Financial Reporting
All Things Data Management: A Deputy CFO’s Point of View
The SEC Catches Heat for Their Case Against SolarWinds
How Practitioners Really Feel About CSRD
Time to Lead: Turning Data into Opportunity
Your Voices Amplified: What You Had to Say About Gen AI, Career Advice, Assured Integrated Reporting, and More!
Psychological Safety at Work When You’re an Internal Auditor
When an SEC Enforcer Says Your Auditor Is a Sham Audit Mill
Building a Fraud Risk Management Program
What is the Gen AI Governance Framework?
No Ordinary Spreadsheet: From CSI to Forensic Accounting
An Extraordinary Conversation with the WorldCom Whistleblower
Digging into the New Global Internal Audit Standards
Surfing the Waves of Change with a Chief Accounting Officer
How Networking and Listening Add up in Accounting
Crunching Numbers, Crushing Goals: Career and Finance Transformation
On Leadership and the Changes Ahead in Accounting and Finance
The History of Financial Reporting with Nick Mazing
The IPO Chronicles: Taking Duolingo Public
The IPO Chronicles: Building from Scratch
Ask a Former SEC Regional Director Anything
What Is NOCLAR? Breaking Down the PCAOB's Proposal
Audit and Risk Prep for the SEC Climate Rule
Off the Books vs. All the Smartest Queen’s Horses in the Room
The Strategy of a Pre-IPO Accounting Leader
Different Perspectives From Internal Audit Leaders
Making Sense of the SEC Rule on Climate-Related Disclosures
Off the Books vs. Stranger Than Fiction
Inside Baseball: What It’s Like to Be CFO with Steve Cates
Getting Ready for Regulations and Gen AI
The Road to Becoming a Financial Controls Director
Checking in on Cybersecurity & SEC Comment Letters on Climate
Reading the Tea Leaves: Predictions for Cybersecurity, ChatGPT, and More!
Gotta Keep ‘Em Regulated
Get That Job: How to Become a Financial Controller
Q3 Earnings Wrap-Up with Nick Mazing: Pumpkin Spice Edition
How to Assess the Materiality of a Cybersecurity Event
Capital Markets Trends with Mike Nordtvedt and Josh Gertsch
Straight Tea with Accounting, ESG, Audit, Risk, & Compliance Experts
Fallout from Fines at a SPAC Audit Firm
Getting Comfortable with Climate Disclosures
Unite to Ignite: Workiva Amplify 2023
Generative AI Goes to Accounting Class
Real Talk on the SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Rule
Internal Auditors, Unite! IIA International Conference Recap
Encore Episode: How to Tame Conference Anxiety and Enjoy the Show
Back to Basics, Part 2: So…Who Regulates ESG? (And More Q&A)
Back to Basics, Part 1: What’s Up with SEC Climate Disclosures?
It’s All Right, It’s OK: Stayin’ Alive in Uncertainty
Uncovering the Sexiest of SEC Filings with Footnoted.com
Off the Books vs. The Accountant
Real Talk on SEC Rules with David Peavler
Capital Markets, IPOs, and Fab Founders with Mary Grove
Overstock CEO Jonathan Johnson on Governance, the G in ESG
The Impact of Internal Audit—What We Learned at IIA GAM 2023
Behind the Scenes of “Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street”
What Happened to Silicon Valley Bank, and What’s Next?
Off the Books vs. Everything Everywhere All At Once
How I Became a Controller (Who Also Does ESG Accounting)
Breaking Down Q4 2022 Earnings with Nick Mazing
Finance and Accounting Trends for Job Hoppers and Their Bosses
Encore Episode: Diversity in Accounting
An ESG Community with Financial Reporting Folks and More
Off the Books vs. The Untouchables
The Truth About Corporate Fraud
Building Trust in the Workplace Without the Trust Falls
Secrets for FP&A Teams from a Market Researcher
Behind the Des Moines Public Schools $50,000 Retention Bonus
100th Episode Extravaganza! The Best of Off the Books
Meme Me Up, Stevey
A Seed Funding Pool Party with the VC Minute Podcast Host
The SEC and FASB: Turning Down the Political Heat, Part 2
The SEC and FASB: Turning Down the Political Heat, Part 1
Off the Books vs. Moonstruck: Best Accounting Movies
ESG and Net Zero: Dinged If You Do, Dinged If You Don't
Amplifying the Future of Transparency
Goodbye to Taxes as We Know Them (and to Season 3)
How to Tame Conference Anxiety and Enjoy the Show
So I've Got Some Bad News ...
SPACs and the SEC
Auditor Resignations and Consternation
Off the Books vs. Ghostbusters
NEWS: What Y’All Said on the SEC Climate Disclosure Proposal
The Business of the Great Outdoors
Mandi vs. Steve on the SEC Climate Disclosure Proposal
Off the Books vs. The Shawshank Redemption
Cryptocurrency and Accounting, with SoftLedger CEO Ben Taylor
The Off the Books Crew Goes on Spring Break
Accounting for War: The Impacts of Ukraine
Surfing with Sharks: Mr. Wonderful and ESG Investing
@!$% My CEO Says: Conference Call Cursing
The Shelf Life of Audit Experience
Going with the Flo: A Chat with FloQast CEO Mike Whitmire
The Super-Duper Best Accounting Movies of All Time
Career Profile: Lawyer by Day, Accountant by Night
The Q4 2021 Earnings Season Recap with Sentieo
Investors Strike Back: David Webber on Shareholder Proposals
Diversity in Accounting
10-Ks, Accounting, and That Awkward Teenage Phase
Private Benjamins: What Should Private Companies Disclose?
The SEC’s SPAC Attack Is Back!
The Inside Scoop on Insider Trading
State of the Market: How SOX Compliance Teams Are Really Doing
Season 2 BONUS: The 2021 Q3 Earnings Recap with Nick Mazing
Making Clear Decisions in an Unclear World
Workiva Opens the Marketplace
Balancing the Books: Equality in Accounting Part 2
Balancing the Books: Equality in Accounting Part 1
End of Season 2
Nick “Explains” Accounting Memes: Boromir’s Warning and Vince Mahon Wrestles with Ledger Balances
Bitcoin Bulletin with Ben Taylor
Q1 Review with Nick Mazing
All about ESG with Bob Hirth (Part 2)
All about ESG with Bob Hirth (Part 1)
Dear Graduates (Part 2)
Dear Graduates (Part 1)
The Power of Connectivity
The ABCs of ESG
Mel Robbins, The 5-Second Rule, and You
What We Know About 2021 So Far
The M&A Q&A (Part Two
The M&A Q&A (Part One)
A Programming Note
Leadership Inside a Fishbowl
SPAC to the Future: Part Deux
SPAC to the Future: Part One
OTB Mailbox: GameStop for Dummies
Straightening Out CECL for 2021 (Part Two)
Straightening Out CECL for 2021 (Part One)
OTB Mailbox: What is Busy Season, Exactly?
End of the Road: GE CAS (Part Two)
End of the Road: GE CAS (Part One)
Steve Explains Accounting Memes: Darth Sidious Depreciates Land
The World’s Most Ergonomic Airplane
Q3 in Review: Vaccines Rule Everything Around Me
Forensic (Accounting) Files with Tim Tribe: Part Two
Forensic (Accounting) Files with Tim Tribe: Part One
You Down with PPP? Yeah, You Know Me
The One Where Steve Meets the Enron Whistleblower
[Rebroadcast] Eerie Accountancy: The Whistling Weakness
Eerie Accountancy: The Ghost Tick
Bite-Sized Episode: Stock Compensation
Stay Tuned: Off the Books Returns October 29
Rob Sand: Iowa State Auditor, Efficiency Aficionado
Q2 in Review: Clorox, Dave & Buster's, and Warren Buffett
What Dick Butkus and Internal Audit Have in Common
Workiva Amplify: Even Better Than Mini Pizzas
We Went To IIA GRC So You Didn’t Have To
When Working from Home Becomes Working in Hell
Cirque du Soleil, Mitt Romney, and a Bus Company
Romaine on the Blockchain, Wine Fraud on the Brain
Mama Mia: Nintendo’s Data Security Woes Continue
The Sticky-Icky Complexities of Cannabis Accounting
Perspective and Success: A Fireside Chat with Joe Howell
Decoding Cryptocurrency in Accounting: Part Two
Decoding Cryptocurrency in Accounting: Part One
How to Win at Global Regulatory Whack-a-Mole
The FERC Mandate: All The Buzz in the Energy Sector
Steve Explains Accounting Memes: Jim Halpert and the Sorting Hat
XBRL Xplained: Pranav Ghai of Calcbench
Transatlantic Panic: The State of Finance Today in the EU
The (Mario) Party’s Over: Nintendo’s Data Breach
Hitting the Books with Prof. Bill Dilla: Part Two
Hitting the Books with Prof. Bill Dilla: Part One
Eerie Accountancy: The Whistling Weakness
The CECL, CARES, and Coronavirus Conundrum
An SEC PCAOB? OMG!
What to do when your coworkers are cats