Life In Accounting - The Where Accountants Go Podcast

Carolyn Newman, the owner of Audimation Services in Houston, Texas, joined us for this week’s episode of Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast. Bachelors in Speech! As with most of our guests, I asked Carolyn to recount the story of how she got into accounting in the first place. Carolyn tells the story of how her options were a little limited when going through school, and she actually initially majored in Speech. It was her first boss though that influenced her to consider getting an accounting degree. She had started in a payroll role and moved into cost accounting, and it was that manager that advised her that her options would be limited without the formal accounting education. It was at that point that she decided to return to school and get her MBA in Accountancy. Systems training… It was at another juncture in her career that education once again made a difference. Carolyn was progressing in an audit career as information systems auditing was becoming more and more important. She decide