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Your Identity Is Not a Liability | Accounting ARC
Silence, shame, and outdated policies still shape the profession—but we rise anyway.
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Accounting ARC
With Liz Mason and Donny Shimamoto
Center for Accounting Transformation
In a stirring Pride Month episode of the Accounting ARC podcast, Liz Mason, CPA, and Donny Shimamoto, CPA.CITP, CGMA, confront what it really means to belong in a profession still wrestling with how to talk about identity.
“Bringing your whole self to work is still a radical act,” says Shimamoto, founder and managing director of IntrapriseTechKnowlogies LLC and founder and inspiration architect for the Center for Accounting Transformation.
For much of his career, it was one he avoided.
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Both Mason, CEO of High Rock Accounting, and Shimamoto spent years hiding parts of themselves to navigate professional expectations. For Mason, that meant letting assumptions stand unchecked. “It was easier not to correct people,” she says. “Because the stakes were too high.” READ MORE →
What to Watch in the One Big Beautiful Bill | Quick Tax Tip
Compromise, party discipline, and presidential influence could make this bill one of the most impactful yet.
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Quick Tax Tip
With Art Werner
CPE Today
When major tax reform is introduced, it’s easy to assume the process is straightforward: the House writes a bill, the Senate reviews it, and Congress either passes or blocks it.
But the truth is much messier—and much more interesting.
Why You Have to Define Your Customer First
There are six steps to value pricing, but don’t skip ahead.
By Jody Padar
Radical Pricing – By The Radical CPA
Can you remember doing business before cell phones or social media? You really don’t have to be too old to remember because change happens fast. In fact, if you are over 50, you probably remember when every home had a landline, firms advertised in the Yellow Pages, and accountants charged hourly for mundane compliance tasks.
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It really wasn’t that long ago when the internet was intriguing rather than indispensable.
At some point, change becomes inevitable, and I would argue that value pricing has reached this critical stage.
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Hollywood’s Next Plot Twist: Can a 100% Tariff Bring the Movies Home?
Behind the politics lies a high-stakes financial drama for studios, vendors, and CPAs.
By Kendale King
Kendale King, CPA, works closely with individuals and businesses, helping them reduce their tax burden and get their accounting audit-ready. He serves as a subject matter expert for the Financial Accounting Standards Board on the “Accounting for and Disclosure of Digital Assets” project. King is on the board of directors for the California Society of CPAs and serves as the president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Association of Black Accountants. He has also worked at Deloitte, PwC, Siegfried Group, Propeller, CFGI, Netflix, ITV Studios, and Snapchat. King can be reached at kck-cpa.com.
In a move that has shocked the global entertainment industry, President Trump proposed a 100 percent tariff on all foreign-made films entering the U.S. market. The declaration via Truth Social framed the policy as a patriotic push to “make movies in America again,” citing national security concerns and the erosion of domestic film production.
At first glance, it sounds like a headline engineered for outrage—or applause, depending on your vantage point. But beneath the political theater lies a real-world drama with high stakes for everyone, from studio execs to set designers, and even accountants. READ MORE →