Life In Accounting - The Where Accountants Go Podcast

Ed Polansky was our guest this week for Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast. Those in Texas will recognize Ed’s name. Ed has served as TSCPA Chair several years ago, worked in the national firms for many years, founded his own firm, eventually merged it into Weaver, and now post-retirement is publishing children’s books! A typical, non-typical beginning… As I’ve learned through many of these podcast interviews, Ed became interested in accounting through a non-typical route, which is actually usually the way it happens. (Does that make sense??) Ed was actually initially interested in Math as a course of study, but as it got more and more advanced, he wasn’t convinced that math at the higher levels had as many practical applications as he would prefer, so he decided on Accounting instead. Through working initially for a sole proprietor, and then later at Arthur Young (EY), he realized that a firm size somewhere in the middle was likely the best fit for him.  Therefore when the time was approp