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Off the Books — 185 episodes

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Introducing The Pre-Read: Where CFOs Get Their Edge

2

The Final Balance

3

Closing the Books: Pausing Enforcement of the  Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

4

Climate Disclosures: We Ask a Lawyer What the SEC Did

5

Off the Books vs MoviePass, MovieCrash

6

A Deep Dive into 10-K Filings with Nick Mazing

7

Keys to Acing an Annual Performance Review

8

The Envelope Please: The Best Accounting Movie Is...

9

Value Creation Under Pressure: Insights from Global Executives

10

Is Sustainability Unsustainable?

11

Return to Office: What’s at Stake for Employees and Employers

12

Hot Views on Hot News in Accounting and Finance

13

Behind the 1MDB Scandal with Xavier Justo

14

Off the Presses: Sounding Off After the Election

15

Transforming Internal Audit

16

The SEC vs the Courts

17

Starting a New Job the Right Way

18

When ESG Meets Financial Reporting

19

All Things Data Management: A Deputy CFO’s Point of View

20

The SEC Catches Heat for Their Case Against SolarWinds

21

How Practitioners Really Feel About CSRD

22

Time to Lead: Turning Data into Opportunity

23

Your Voices Amplified: What You Had to Say About Gen AI, Career Advice, Assured Integrated Reporting, and More!

24

Psychological Safety at Work When You’re an Internal Auditor

25

When an SEC Enforcer Says Your Auditor Is a Sham Audit Mill

26

Building a Fraud Risk Management Program

27

What is the Gen AI Governance Framework?

28

No Ordinary Spreadsheet: From CSI to Forensic Accounting

29

An Extraordinary Conversation with the WorldCom Whistleblower

30

Digging into the New Global Internal Audit Standards

31

Surfing the Waves of Change with a Chief Accounting Officer

32

How Networking and Listening Add up in Accounting

33

Crunching Numbers, Crushing Goals: Career and Finance Transformation

34

On Leadership and the Changes Ahead in Accounting and Finance

35

The History of Financial Reporting with Nick Mazing

36

The IPO Chronicles: Taking Duolingo Public

37

The IPO Chronicles: Building from Scratch

38

Ask a Former SEC Regional Director Anything

39

What Is NOCLAR? Breaking Down the PCAOB's Proposal

40

Audit and Risk Prep for the SEC Climate Rule

41

Off the Books vs. All the Smartest Queen’s Horses in the Room

42

The Strategy of a Pre-IPO Accounting Leader

43

Different Perspectives From Internal Audit Leaders

44

Making Sense of the SEC Rule on Climate-Related Disclosures

45

Off the Books vs. Stranger Than Fiction

46

Inside Baseball: What It’s Like to Be CFO with Steve Cates

47

Getting Ready for Regulations and Gen AI

48

The Road to Becoming a Financial Controls Director

49

Checking in on Cybersecurity & SEC Comment Letters on Climate

50

Reading the Tea Leaves: Predictions for Cybersecurity, ChatGPT, and More!

51

Gotta Keep ‘Em Regulated

52

Get That Job: How to Become a Financial Controller

53

Q3 Earnings Wrap-Up with Nick Mazing: Pumpkin Spice Edition

54

How to Assess the Materiality of a Cybersecurity Event

55

Capital Markets Trends with Mike Nordtvedt and Josh Gertsch

56

Straight Tea with Accounting, ESG, Audit, Risk, & Compliance Experts

57

Fallout from Fines at a SPAC Audit Firm

58

Getting Comfortable with Climate Disclosures

59

Unite to Ignite: Workiva Amplify 2023

60

Generative AI Goes to Accounting Class

61

Real Talk on the SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Rule

62

Internal Auditors, Unite! IIA International Conference Recap

63

Encore Episode: How to Tame Conference Anxiety and Enjoy the Show

64

Back to Basics, Part 2: So…Who Regulates ESG? (And More Q&A)

65

Back to Basics, Part 1: What’s Up with SEC Climate Disclosures?

66

It’s All Right, It’s OK: Stayin’ Alive in Uncertainty

67

Uncovering the Sexiest of SEC Filings with Footnoted.com

68

Off the Books vs. The Accountant

69

Real Talk on SEC Rules with David Peavler

70

Capital Markets, IPOs, and Fab Founders with Mary Grove

71

Overstock CEO Jonathan Johnson on Governance, the G in ESG

72

The Impact of Internal Audit—What We Learned at IIA GAM 2023

73

Behind the Scenes of “Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street”

74

What Happened to Silicon Valley Bank, and What’s Next?

75

Off the Books vs. Everything Everywhere All At Once

76

How I Became a Controller (Who Also Does ESG Accounting)

77

Breaking Down Q4 2022 Earnings with Nick Mazing

78

Finance and Accounting Trends for Job Hoppers and Their Bosses

79

Encore Episode: Diversity in Accounting

80

An ESG Community with Financial Reporting Folks and More

81

Off the Books vs. The Untouchables

82

The Truth About Corporate Fraud

83

Building Trust in the Workplace Without the Trust Falls

84

Secrets for FP&A Teams from a Market Researcher

85

Behind the Des Moines Public Schools $50,000 Retention Bonus

86

100th Episode Extravaganza! The Best of Off the Books

87

Meme Me Up, Stevey

88

A Seed Funding Pool Party with the VC Minute Podcast Host

89

The SEC and FASB: Turning Down the Political Heat, Part 2

90

The SEC and FASB: Turning Down the Political Heat, Part 1

91

Off the Books vs. Moonstruck: Best Accounting Movies

92

ESG and Net Zero: Dinged If You Do, Dinged If You Don't

93

Amplifying the Future of Transparency

94

Goodbye to Taxes as We Know Them (and to Season 3)

95

How to Tame Conference Anxiety and Enjoy the Show

96

So I've Got Some Bad News ...

97

SPACs and the SEC

98

Auditor Resignations and Consternation

99

Off the Books vs. Ghostbusters

100

NEWS: What Y’All Said on the SEC Climate Disclosure Proposal

101

The Business of the Great Outdoors

102

Mandi vs. Steve on the SEC Climate Disclosure Proposal

103

Off the Books vs. The Shawshank Redemption

104

Cryptocurrency and Accounting, with SoftLedger CEO Ben Taylor

105

The Off the Books Crew Goes on Spring Break

106

Accounting for War: The Impacts of Ukraine

107

Surfing with Sharks: Mr. Wonderful and ESG Investing

108

@!$% My CEO Says: Conference Call Cursing

109

The Shelf Life of Audit Experience

110

Going with the Flo: A Chat with FloQast CEO Mike Whitmire

111

The Super-Duper Best Accounting Movies of All Time

112

Career Profile: Lawyer by Day, Accountant by Night

113

The Q4 2021 Earnings Season Recap with Sentieo

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Investors Strike Back: David Webber on Shareholder Proposals

115

Diversity in Accounting

116

10-Ks, Accounting, and That Awkward Teenage Phase

117

Private Benjamins: What Should Private Companies Disclose?

118

The SEC’s SPAC Attack Is Back!

119

The Inside Scoop on Insider Trading

120

State of the Market: How SOX Compliance Teams Are Really Doing

121

Season 2 BONUS: The 2021 Q3 Earnings Recap with Nick Mazing

122

Making Clear Decisions in an Unclear World

123

Workiva Opens the Marketplace

124

Balancing the Books: Equality in Accounting Part 2

125

Balancing the Books: Equality in Accounting Part 1

126

End of Season 2

127

Nick “Explains” Accounting Memes: Boromir’s Warning and Vince Mahon Wrestles with Ledger Balances

128

Bitcoin Bulletin with Ben Taylor

129

Q1 Review with Nick Mazing

130

All about ESG with Bob Hirth (Part 2)

131

All about ESG with Bob Hirth (Part 1)

132

Dear Graduates (Part 2)

133

Dear Graduates (Part 1)

134

The Power of Connectivity

135

The ABCs of ESG

136

Mel Robbins, The 5-Second Rule, and You

137

What We Know About 2021 So Far

138

The M&A Q&A (Part Two

139

The M&A Q&A (Part One)

140

A Programming Note

141

Leadership Inside a Fishbowl

142

SPAC to the Future: Part Deux

143

SPAC to the Future: Part One

144

OTB Mailbox: GameStop for Dummies

145

Straightening Out CECL for 2021 (Part Two)

146

Straightening Out CECL for 2021 (Part One)

147

OTB Mailbox: What is Busy Season, Exactly?

148

End of the Road: GE CAS (Part Two)

149

End of the Road: GE CAS (Part One)

150

Steve Explains Accounting Memes: Darth Sidious Depreciates Land

151

The World’s Most Ergonomic Airplane

152

Q3 in Review: Vaccines Rule Everything Around Me

153

Forensic (Accounting) Files with Tim Tribe: Part Two

154

Forensic (Accounting) Files with Tim Tribe: Part One

155

You Down with PPP? Yeah, You Know Me

156

The One Where Steve Meets the Enron Whistleblower

157

[Rebroadcast] Eerie Accountancy: The Whistling Weakness

158

Eerie Accountancy: The Ghost Tick

159

Bite-Sized Episode: Stock Compensation

160

Stay Tuned: Off the Books Returns October 29

161

Rob Sand: Iowa State Auditor, Efficiency Aficionado

162

Q2 in Review: Clorox, Dave & Buster's, and Warren Buffett

163

What Dick Butkus and Internal Audit Have in Common

164

Workiva Amplify: Even Better Than Mini Pizzas

165

We Went To IIA GRC So You Didn’t Have To

166

When Working from Home Becomes Working in Hell

167

Cirque du Soleil, Mitt Romney, and a Bus Company

168

Romaine on the Blockchain, Wine Fraud on the Brain

169

Mama Mia: Nintendo’s Data Security Woes Continue

170

The Sticky-Icky Complexities of Cannabis Accounting

171

Perspective and Success: A Fireside Chat with Joe Howell

172

Decoding Cryptocurrency in Accounting: Part Two

173

Decoding Cryptocurrency in Accounting: Part One

174

How to Win at Global Regulatory Whack-a-Mole

175

The FERC Mandate: All The Buzz in the Energy Sector

176

Steve Explains Accounting Memes: Jim Halpert and the Sorting Hat

177

XBRL Xplained: Pranav Ghai of Calcbench

178

Transatlantic Panic: The State of Finance Today in the EU

179

The (Mario) Party’s Over: Nintendo’s Data Breach

180

Hitting the Books with Prof. Bill Dilla: Part Two

181

Hitting the Books with Prof. Bill Dilla: Part One

182

Eerie Accountancy: The Whistling Weakness

183

The CECL, CARES, and Coronavirus Conundrum

184

An SEC PCAOB? OMG!

185

What to do when your coworkers are cats