Accounting students this one is for you!

In today's special release episode, Yuri shares his presentation to a group of students at Rutgers Business School from October 30th, 2025. In this presentation Yuri helps college students understand what their journey will look like after graduating and how to best succeed in their accounting career.

Here are a few highlights:

✅Yuri's journey after graduation

✅How to interview well

✅Audit Vs. Tax

✅How to succeed at the new job

✅Much more!

Steven Jarvis, “the least boring CPA”, joins Yuri in this week’s episode to talk real career moves, not LinkedIn fantasies.

Steven is CEO and Head CPA at Retirement Tax Services – but at one time, he was *this* close to landing a partnership at a national firm.

Instead, he built a tax + education company serving financial advisors so he could design his work around his life, and not the other way around.

Additionally, Yuri and Steven discuss why most sales happen by email (not social), and how he 4×’d a conference in a year without losing his mind (or his margins). They get honest about switching from audit to tax, when entrepreneurship is a bad idea, building teams and setting expectations at work and at home so you can actually enjoy the wins.

Episode Highlights:

0:00 - Intro

0:35 - Meet Steven Jarvis

1:32 - Steven’s career journey, how we started

5:42 - Moving from audit to tax

13:57 - “If you want a dramatic shift…”

17:09 - Turning down the partnership (and what happened)

20:50 - What happened

27:15 - Steven’s take on social media, LinkedIn

31:11 - Tips for running and creating events

41:45 - Steven’s firm now

44:47 - Offshoring and AI

49:38 - “Why should someone become an accountant?”

51:19 - Work life balance

54:50 - Episode wrap-up

ABOUT HOST YURI KAPILOVICH

Yuri, aka #thefuncpa, has been in the accounting profession for over 15 years and has seen, first hand, the challenges the profession brings. After seeing that no firm was fitting the bill, Yuri set out to do things his own way with his firm K&A and the journey began with LinkedIn posting at the front end.

Yuri is proud to bring you #thefuncpa podcast highlighting the fun and all the amazing opportunities our profession can bring us all.

CONNECT WITH YURI KAPILOVICH

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ykapilovich/

Website: https://www.thefuncpa.co/

CONNECT WITH STEVEN JARVIS

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenajarvis/

Website: https://retirementtaxservices.com/memberships/

From LinkedIn “beef”, to a real conversation about building modern accounting teams.

This week, I’m joined by Connor Bland and Caleb Johnson of Cloud Accountant Staffing. Cloud focuses on building global careers for accounting professionals across the Philippines, South Africa, and Central/South America – and connecting these folks to firms here in the US.

Connor and Caleb dive a little more into this process in this episode, why it’s not as scary as it sounds, as well as their thoughts on offshoring and how it can offer firms a way to grow in a way that doesn’t grind it’s employees to dust.

Additionally we do a little post-game on our recent rap battle and the internet of it all: “haters”, posting, positioning and the playbook for those of you in the accounting industry.

Episode Highlights:

0:00 - Intro

0:35 - Episode beginning

3:46 - Meet Connor and Caleb

8:09 - Being yourself on LinkedIn and in your content

12:38 - “What’s most difficult about selling to accountants?”

17:25 - What objections Connor and Caleb are seeing

20:18 - Challenges to finding offshore talent

26:37 - Rap battles and DINK posting

32:47 - The key to social media

51:35 - Re-positioning, focusing on the youth

57:06 - What does accounting look like in the future?

1:02:15 - Episode wrap-up

ABOUT HOST YURI KAPILOVICH

Yuri, aka #thefuncpa, has been in the accounting profession for over 15 years and has seen, first hand, the challenges the profession brings. After seeing that no firm was fitting the bill, Yuri set out to do things his own way with his firm K&A and the journey began with LinkedIn posting at the front end.

Yuri is proud to bring you #thefuncpa podcast highlighting the fun and all the amazing opportunities our profession can bring us all.

CONNECT WITH YURI KAPILOVICH

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ykapilovich/

Website: https://www.thefuncpa.co/

CONNECT WITH CONNOR BLAND

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connerbland/

Website: https://www.cloudaccountantstaffing.com/

CONNECT WITH CALEB JOHNSON

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebjohnsonofindianapolis/