Life In Accounting - The Where Accountants Go Podcast

Rick Mangum, CPA, joined us for this episode of Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast. I invited Rick on the show for several reasons, but primarily for the discussion of a venture he was involved in that was backed by private equity where he served as the CFO on the executive team that built the company for eventual sale. The company we are referring to was Vidacare, a medical device company that sold to Teleflex just a few years back. Golf wasn’t going to work out… As with all our interviews, we started with the question of how Rick decided to pursue accounting as a career in the first place. Interestingly enough, Rick started out as a golf major but when he realized that wasn’t going to work out for him as a long-term career option, he decided to look into accounting. Taking risks… Although his career started in a more ‘traditional’ manner with his first job being at EY (Ernst & Whinney at the time), he later got into roles that were higher risk / higher reward with his moves to Clear Channe