Life In Accounting - The Where Accountants Go Podcast

Tim Pike, Audit Partner with Howard LLP, joined us for this week’s episode of Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast. It was too much paperwork… In an interesting initial twist to this interview, we learn that Tim actually started out to be a physical therapist early in life. However, when he interned in the field he realized that there was more repetitive paperwork than he really wanted on an ongoing basis in the physical therapy profession so he decided to look elsewhere. We laugh a little in the interview given that he settled on accounting after deciding that he wanted less paperwork... but truly what it was that drew him to the profession was the higher level of diversity in servicing client needs overall. What it means to be “Partner” I felt that one of the most valuable parts of the interview was the discussion of what it truly means to be a “partner” in a CPA firm. Tim discusses how many people initially simply think of it as a managerial and profit sharing position, but in reality it me