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Accounting, as all accounting professionals know, is anything but static and boring. It is a dynamic and ever-growing field that encompasses a huge variety of skills, specializations, and jobs. But even the most seasoned accounting professionals can benefit from continuing their education in accounting on and off the job, and the digital age has introduced a huge array of tools that can help accounting professionals do just that.
Podcasts are a great and efficient tool for addressing this need. Whether you’re listening while getting ready for work, during your lunch hour, or during that mid-afternoon “dead hour,” podcasts are a quick and easy way to learn and stay current. Check out some of the best accounting podcasts available to help you stay current in your field – and even learn some new tricks.
Accounting Best Practices with Steve Bragg
This immensely popular podcast hosted by finance and accounting expert Steve Bragg covers a variety of topics relating to best practices in accounting, including accounting technologies and software, banks and financing, metrics, payroll practices, investments, and much more. This podcast has been downloaded more than two million times, and is available through iTunes.
CPA Exam Review
CPA Exam Review is a must-listen podcast for accountants in training or students still completing their accounting degree. Hosted by licensed certified public accountant Jeff Elliot, this podcast – the most listened-to podcast on CPA examinations internet-wide – covers everything to do with studying for the CPA exam, including study strategies, scoring, and much more. You can listen via iTunes.
Accounting Play Podcast: Learn Accounting
This student-oriented podcast covers everything a current accounting student will want to know – accounting basics, financial statements, home and property equity and assets, preparing for job interviews, information on corporation types, and much more. Hosted by CPA John Gillingham, this podcast series is available on iTunes.
Xero Gravity
The Xero Gravity is an interview-based podcast geared specifically towards entrepreneurial accountants and accounting small business owners. Hosted by Elizabeth Ue and Gene Marks, this weekly podcast covers a wide variety of topics, including how to attract new customers, income boosting, maintaining a life-work balance, and many others. Xero Gravity is available through iTunes and the Stitcher app.
THRIVEal Podcasts
Hosted by Greg Kyte and Jason Blumer, this podcast identifies new trends, practices, and tools for accounting professionals. It also covers changes in public accounting practices. The podcast seeks to assist CPAs in joining a community of other accounting professionals to share wisdom, knowledge, best practices and tricks of the trade, and hosts regular guests for interviews and discussion. This lively and often hilarious podcast is available through Stitcher or iTunes.
Whether you are an accounting student or a twenty year accounting veteran, fresh to the job or the CEO of a major accounting firm, each of these high quality podcasts offer useful and up to date information on accounting practices, laws, innovation, and every other facet of this rapidly growing and changing industry.
These five are some of the most listened-to and up to date accounting podcasts in the accounting industry – no matter what time of day you tune in or download, they are an excellent method of staying current and connected to the accounting industry.