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/

U.S. accounting is changing fast. Offshoring, AI, and private equity are reshaping careers in real time.

Mario Castro joins me to pull back the curtain on what firms won’t say out loud: hollowed training pipelines, billable-hour games, delayed start dates, and why the partner “cruise ship” may never come back to the dock for seniors and MDs.

We also cover some paths that do work – well as Mario’s journey to accounting and how his career has evolved from those beginnings.

Episode Highlights:

0:00 - Teaser

0:55 - Meet Mario

3:12 - The difficulty of the ‘first venture’

6:58 - What made Mario go out on his own

12:01 - Offshoring

18:24 - How do we fix hollowed-out pipelines?

27:45 - Mario’s take on billable hours

33:53 - Work stress and the grind starting out

40:12 - The realities of moving to tax (and your own firm)

41:24 - Mario’s take on private equity

50:52 - Why forward-thinking boutiques can win

51:30 - Closing thoughts and 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 MARIO CASTRO

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

Website: https://castrocpas.com/

From “BDO to builder” to launching a platform for entrepreneurial CPAs.

Marcus Rien joins Yuri to unpack public vs. private realities, the 150/120 debate, and why the profession’s future depends on changing the narrative and the model.

We get into his journey, the creation of Waves CPAs—a marketplace + back office for CPAs who want flexibility and ownership—and how PE roll-ups, AI, and small-city growth are reshaping opportunities.

Marcus also shares the story behind his motto “Belief Inspires Success” and how this mentality levels up CPAs and non-CPAs alike.

Episode Highlights:

0:00 - Introduction

0:35 - Episode beginning, meet Marcus

10:24 - Moving from public to private

13:23 - Marcus’ take on the talent shortage

18:20 - Lack of ‘direct ROI’

19:58 - A more flexible path

28:26 - Is there a tax component to ‘Waves’?

31:03 - Client and talent distribution and how ‘PE’ factors in

35:20 - Belief inspires success

40:54 - More about Marcus (and more about ‘Waves’)

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 MARCUS RIEN

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-rien/

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-rien/

In today's episode we do a deep dive into buying and selling accounting firms with Daniel Talbott

Daniel is the owner of RightExit helping firms sell and helping buyers find the right match when it comes to their firm purchase.

If you are considering starting your accounting entrepreneurship journey and are not sure if you should buy an accounting firm this is the episode for you where we cover so much about the journey

✅How to value an accounting firm?

✅What it takes to buy a firm?

✅Which SBA programs are out there?

✅Should I build a firm or should I buy a firm?

✅So much more

On today's episode we got a real interesting and unique guest - Robert Nordlander. Robert is a former IRS Criminal Investigator who worked with the Service for 21 years.


Today's episode is chalk full of value where we learn all about

✅ IRS CI procedures and how cases are selected

✅What happens when you receive a subpoena and how to act

✅How to keep yourself and your client out of trouble

✅Social media and the IRS

✅much much more

In today's episode we have Erica Goode, AKA The 15 Hour Accountant, sharing her journey and career in accounting.

We discuss everything from

✅ Private vs public accounting careers
✅Challenges woman face in the profession
✅Launching a firm centered around YOUR lifestyle
✅Deep burnout and its impacts
✅Raising kids while working

I am truly humbled to be able to bring you this incredibly valuable episode and a big thank you to Erica for joining us today

CONNECT WITH YURI KAPILOVICH

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

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

CONNECT WITH ERICA GOODE

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erica-goode-cpa-00205616/

Erica's FREE Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/ericagoode/15hr-email-referral