FEI Podcast
Episodes
Episode 83: Financial Services Facing the Unknown
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Consecutive market shocks of a global pandemic, rising inflation, and a threatened recession continue to chip away at market confidence. Despite these...
Episode 82: The Changing Face of Consumer Credit
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rapid changes in the US economy are forcing consumer credit providers to shore up their balance sheets and operations for some rough waters. Amex’s ...
Adapting and Creating Value Through FP&A
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There is a great deal of uncertainty rolling through the business community and markets, and strategies, customers and products that seemed a sure thi...
Episode 81: Payment Services
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Payments are the lifeline of any business, as the main artery for cashflow and financial sustainability. Kristy Carstensen lead’s the finance effort...
Episode 80: How to Modernize and Digitize Finance
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Consecutive market shocks of a global pandemic, rising inflation, and a threatened recession continue to chip away at market confidence. Despite these...
A New World Needs a New Way to Close
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A key responsibility for anyone in the finance function is closing the company books on a monthly, quarterly and yearly basis. And although to a laype...
Episode 78: Auditing a Company's Civil Rights Record
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Civil rights audits, also known as racial equity audits, have become a new way for organizations to review their internal and external operations for ...
Proxy Season is ESG Season
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shareholders have filed more ESG resolutions in 2022 than in all previous years, according to Morngingstar.. In this podcast we speak with Andrew Be...
Putting a SOC in Crypto
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Crypto and blockchain are finding quick adoption in the corporate world, and that means financial executives are looking for ways to overlay some of t...
FEI Engage 101: China Accounting and Audit
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast is the first in a series of discussions we are conducting for our FEI Engage subscribers, with the goal of offering access to senior audi...
Episode 73: Inflation, Currency Volatility and Your Balance Sheet in 2022
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The past two years of pandemic-induced uncertainty have opened the door for risks that financial executives have not had to manage at scale in decades...
Why Media Finance Matters More Than Ever
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For finance leaders in the media, news and entertainment industries, digital transformation has altered traditional business models. Disruptions in po...
Episode 66: The Next Battleground In The Trade Revolution
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past several months there has been no shortage of discussion regarding global trade and the knock on-effects of the pandemic. But while debat...
Empty Spaces Full of Risk
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The new year may start with a bang for lenders, but not in a good way. On the heels of the federal eviction moratorium expiration for most states tha...
How Finance Can Keep Live Entertainment Alive
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, government-mandated shutdowns placed live, cultural activity companies in jeopardy. Dance crews and enterta...
Episode 69: Rise of the Streaming Culture and Art of the COVID Pivot
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Government mandated stay-at-home orders significantly contributed to the growth of the streaming culture. The quarantine mandates also resulted in a m...
Balancing And Changing While Growing Fast In Finance
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Patricio is an industry veteran with 25 years of public company finance experience. He would be able to provide insight on a Latin American company su...
Gaining Inclusivity, Battling Isolation: Crowe Quarterly Insight
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Mitchell has been with Crowe for six years, serving as a consulting principal within the technology, media, and telecommunications services grou...
Inflation Accounting and Accounting for Inflation
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Real inflation-- where prices jump and spending is pummeled -- and is not something that businesses in the United States have had to deal with in deca...
Your Cash Flows Don't Make Any Sense
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to public company disclosures, the statement of cash flows does not receive a great amount of attention. Seemingly a straightforward acc...
Banks and CECL's Future
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
CECL continues to remain at the top of mind for Financial Executives in the banking industry and in this episode of the podcast we speak to two profes...
Episode 61: Digitization and How to Finance the News
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Like many news and publishing houses, Guardian News & Media faced unsustainable annual losses as a result of the pandemic. Join the conversation w...
Episode 60: Sustainability Disclosure "Must Be Done" With Existing Rules
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Financial executives in the US are waiting for a new set of rules focused on sustainability reporting that’s expected to come from the U.S. Securiti...
Episode 52: Tax Proposal Targeting Silicon Valley
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Special Guest: Christopher Karachale.
Episode 51: Fraud in the Time of COVID
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Financial executives have been at the center of fighting financial and accounting fraud, adapting as both the players and the schemes have changed wit...
Episode 50: Government Controllers Speak
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With trillions of dollars at stake, government comptrollers are at the tip of the spear in making sure taxpayers’ money is spent wisely and the righ...
Episode 49: Navigating One City’s Financial Future 2021
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As part of our ongoing ForwardThinking series, FEI’s Shivani Somaiya speaks with Phialelphia’s controller Rebecca Rhynhart about how the city of b...
Episode 48: Crypto On the Balance Sheet
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past year as the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has risen institutions have started to take a serious look at digital currencies...
Episode 47: The Growing Role of the Federal Government
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With the passage of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package the US federal government will have a monumental task of accounting for how and where...
Episode 42: Making SPACs Work: The Crowe Quarterly Podcast
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Special-purpose acquisition companies,or SPACs, have become the latest rage in corporate finance, allowing private companies to go public by first bei...
Episode 46: FowardThinking: One State’s Path to Recovery
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Like many states, California had their economy turned upside down by the pandemic. Betty Yee - the second woman in California’s history to serve as ...
Episode 45: Speed, Agility and the CFO
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the episode of the Financial Executive Podcast we partnered with Accenture to bring you the top lessons learned from their most recent global CFO r...
Episode 44: Big Data and Sustainability Reporting
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the big challenges for companies, as well as investors, when it comes to ESG is wrangling the data points that are important to every stakehold...
Episode 43: Career and Connection in 2021
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Q1 sessions of FowardThinking talks with leaders on the ways in which organizations are charting a new course on how and where they work.Special G...
Episode 41: What Is Extinction Accounting?
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sustainability reporting is something that both financial statement preparers and investors have been discussing for years, and it’s expected to bec...
Episode 40: What Financial Executives Really Think About Internal Controls
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Given all that internal controls encompass, it’s not surprising that they are labor and time intensive and that financial executives continually see...
Episode 39: Section 230 Reform And Back to The Dystopian Future
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Financial Executive Podcast we speak with Eric Goldman, Professor of Law at Santa Clara University and co-director of the High ...
Episode 38: CECL, Loss Models and the Unintended Consequences of COVID-19
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The current expected credit losses standard, or CECL, had been hotly debated in banking and accounting circles long before COVID-19 surfaced earlier t...
Episode 37: Navigating the Impact of PPP and Government Assistance: Crowe Quarterly Update
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The US government's Paycheck Protection Program was a lifeline for many public and private companies during the early dark days of the COVID-19 p...
Episode 36: Racial Justice Is a Movement, Not a Moment
06 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As part of our FEI Forward Thinking series, we're speaking with 4 different senior-level financial executives about navigating such challenging ti...
Episode 35: At the Center of the Storm
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Financial Education and Research Foundation (FERF), in cooperation with Robert Half | Protiviti, will hold live, in-depth Q&A discussions with...
Episode 34: Going on Offense
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Financial Education and Research Foundation (FERF), in cooperation with Robert Half | Protiviti, will hold live, in-depth Q&A discussions with...
Episode 33: Delivering When It Matters Most
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Financial Education and Research Foundation (FERF), in cooperation with Robert Half | Protiviti, held live, in-depth Q&A discussions with four...
Episode 32: Cybersecurity As a Competitive Advantage: Crowe Quarterly Insight
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The COVID-19 public health crisis has forced businesses across all industries to rapidly adapt their thinking and adoption of new digital technologies...
Four Challenges, Four Leaders
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this series we spoke with Teri Reinseth, Corporate Controller & CAO, 3M Company Calvin Harris Jr., SVP, Finance and CFO, National Urban Leagu...
Episode 30: Staying Liquid Means Staying Open: Crowe Quarterly Insight
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Financial Executive Podcast speaks with John A. Grivetti III, partner with Crowe’s advisory services group about how senior-level financial exec...
Episode 29: Accounting, Tax and Financial Reporting Impacts of COVID-19: Crowe Quarterly Insight
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are a myriad of tax and financial reporting changes, in addition to liquidity options, for companies that are impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic...
Episode 28: Measuring The True Value of ESG Reporting: Crowe Quarterly Insight
08 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There is a push for more holistic measures of value than what sits on a company's bottom line. These efforts -- combined with increased concerns s...
Episode 27: What's Driving Audit Fees
05 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How and when audit fees rise and fall is something that has been of intense interest to senior-level financial executives and academics. In anticipati...
Episode 26: Project Management For Financial Executives
27 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez details the competencies required to transform and thrive in the new digital and project-driven economy.Special Guest: Antonio...
Episode 25: Data Strategy Drives Better Quality, Cost Savings
16 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Technologies and techniques such as robotics, machine learning, natural language processing, and blockchain present a defining opportunity for the fin...
Episode 24: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – One Year On
09 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Financial Executive Podcast, Dillon Papenfuss, Research Analyst for the Financial Education & Research Foundation (FERF), s...
Episode 23: A Guide to ICFR by Preparers, for Preparers
18 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
FEI’s Committee on Corporate Reporting (CCR) recently release two ICFR: Insights, Issues, and Practices documents that address internal control cons...
Episode 22: Where Is Technology Taking Auditing and Accounting?
12 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Rapid advances in technology are quickly disrupting the auditing, accounting and financial reporting industry at a pace not seen in decades. As soon a...
Episode 21: Career Check: A Discussion with CFO Recruiter Samuel Dergel
25 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
FEI Daily Managing Editor Olivia Berkman speaks with Samuel Dergel, a search consultant assisting companies with their C-suite and executive talent ne...
Episode 20: Inline XBRL, Explained
17 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This summer the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a new rule that requires the use of “Inline XBRL” in the financial reporting proce...
Episode 19: Tariffs, Trade Wars and Planning For Uncertainty
22 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Increasing tariffs and the threat of a global trade war is something that all senior-level financial executives need to consider when planning for the...
Episode 15: RPA Is Becoming Finance’s New Norm
30 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How and where to leverage those technologies – and the knock on effect it has on finance staff and productivity – is the subject of a white paper ...
Episode 16: Technology Is Changing Everything In The Finance Suite: 2018 Benchmarking the Finance Function Preview
26 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
FEI Daily Managing Editor Oliva Berkman and Rober Half's Paul McDonald discuss how the latest survey of 1,700 financial executives reveals how dig...
Episode 13: Career Strategies for Financial Executives in 2018
11 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The war for talent isn't cooling down anytime soon, especially when it comes to the financial suite. Companies are finding unique ways of attracti...
Episode 11: Harassment, Toxic Workplaces and the Role of Leaders
29 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Special Guest: Stefanie Johnson.
Episode 10: The Critical Difference Between Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience
15 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Financial Executives International Managing Editor Olivia Berkman discusses cyber resilience with Paul Nicholas, Senior Director, Global Security Stra...
Episode 9: Where Will the Next Generation of Financial Executives Come From?
24 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Companies are struggling to attract experienced hires from public accounting firms. This is particularly concerning as companies adjust to all of the ...
Episode 8: Harvey, Houston and Rebuilding as a Financial Executive
01 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Hurricane Harvey, which struck Texas and parts of Louisiana last week, has dumped nearly 19 trillion gallons of water and damaged or destroyed over 10...
Episode 7: Five Years Later: Learning the Lessons of the JOBS Act
04 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) was signed into law five years ago this week with hope that removing burdensome disclosure requirem...
Episode 6: Capital Planning in the Age of Uncertainty
29 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Uncertainty is not the friend of the financial executive, especially when it comes to long-term capital planning. What taxes will you pay, what busine...
Five Years Later: Did the Jobs Act Change the IPO Market (or Did the IPO Market Change the Jobs Act)?
24 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, or JOBS Act, will be celebrating its fifth anniversary in April. When it was passed in 2012, the hopes were t...
Episode 5: Get Control of Your Audit Fees Now With Workiva's Joseph Howell
11 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion with Joe Howell, Executive Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Workiva about how CFOs and other financial executives can take cont...
Episode 4: Simplification and 2016 Priorities with FASB Vice Chairman James Kroeker
10 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
FASB's James L. Kroeker speaks with FEI's Erik Bradbury regarding financial reporting simplification initiatives going on with the accounting ...
Episode 3: Confessions of a Startup CFO With Mark MacLeod
21 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion with Mark MacLeod of SuperPath Advisors on his career as a startup financial executive.
Episode 2: Cybersecurity and the CFO With John Stark
13 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Want to know the first call a CFO makes in a data breach? It's not who you think.
Episode 1: Private Healthcare Exchanges With ADP's William Giaconia
24 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
How should CFOs and other financial executives think and plan for private healthcare exchanges? ADP's Will Giaconia explains.