IssuesWatch Podcast

This timely podcast covers the latest issues impacting CPAs and accounting professionals in New Jersey. Topics range from legislative initiatives to accounting and auditing updates, to economic issues and more.

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Episodes

  • IssuesWatch Podcast

    Private Equity’s Impact on the Accounting Profession

    August 15, 2023
    Think private equity (PE) is only for large CPA firms? Not necessarily so. Phil Whitman of Whitman Transition Advisors discusses recent private equity deals and how virtually every CPA firm can take advantage of PE and other nontraditional methods of investment and firm growth.
  • IssuesWatch Podcast

    CPAs Weigh in on the Economy

    August 1, 2023
    New Jersey CPAs were decidedly less pessimistic about the New Jersey and national economies in this year’s NJCPA economic survey. Roosevelt Bowman, senior investment strategist with Bernstein Private Wealth Management, helps us make sense of the survey results and shares his insights on inflation, recession and prospects for the future.
  • IssuesWatch Podcast

    Crypto Accounting: Updates and Predictions – July 2023

    July 27, 2023
    Crypto continues to be in the headlines, so Dr. Sean Stein Smith, CPA, is back to fill us in. He covers the possibility of Bitcoin ETF; the status of the SEC’s lawsuit against Ripple; prospects for the FedNow payment system and the impact it could have on crypto; and how CPAs can talk to clients about cryptoassets.
  • IssuesWatch Podcast

    A Record-High New Jersey Budget

    July 18, 2023
    New Jersey has a $54.3 billion budget for its 2024 fiscal year. It’s $1 billion higher than the budget Governor Murphy proposed several months ago, and it passed at the last moment. Find out what’s included, and why the budget process is being criticized.
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