Life In Accounting - The Where Accountants Go Podcast

John Sharbaugh, the recently retired CEO of TSCPA, joined us for this episode of Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast. A unique guest… John was a different guest for us in that he didn’t start his career in the profession, but he has had a unique opportunity to study the accounting profession for a period of over 30 years. These 3 decades of involvement with the accounting profession are made up of employment with two state CPA societies prior to Texas (namely Florida & North Carolina), 12 years with AICPA, and then most recently 17 years serving as CEO for the Texas Society of CPAs. Trends in the profession John touches on several factors influencing the profession and goes into depth particularly in the following three areas: technology, globalization, and demographics.  We’ve had a few guests that touched on the demographic changes, but we haven’t had any guests as of yet comment on technology to the extent that John does in this interview, not to mention globalization as well. Personal con