Life In Accounting - The Where Accountants Go Podcast

Stewart Goodson, Executive Director of Tax with Ernst & Young (EY) joined us for this episode of Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast to discuss how EY is using robotics! Early Background Stewart knew after the first day in his high school accounting course that this would be his career path. After high school, Stewart worked full-time and went to UTSA full-time.  Upon graduation he joined EY because he liked the people and the culture, and he has been at EY ever since. He enjoyed working with the clients and he knew he wanted to focus on tax.  Since 2000 he has been in the role of Executive Director. Setting a Path When computers were becoming common place, Stewart saw that this was going to be a valuable tool so he became the tax department’s technology champion. The firm decided to put in a network, and while he wasn’t a computer programmer, Stewart knew how to ask the right questions and this led to his team doing the initial design. Robotics! EY has been involved with robotics for about t