Qualified Opinions
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Podcast Overview
<p><b>Real conversations for the modern audit professional.</b></p><p><b>Qualified Opinions</b> is a conversational, insight‑driven talk show designed for today’s accounting and audit professionals who want more than textbook answers and webinar jargon.</p><p></p><p>Hosted by Drew Carrick (aka <i>The Rapping CPA</i>) alongside Chris Vanover, the show blends real‑world experience, career perspective, and candid discussion on what’s actually happening inside public accounting. Each episode explores the intersection of <b>audit quality, firm culture, career growth, and the business of the profession</b>—with honesty, humor, and practical insight.</p><p></p><p>Rather than technical deep dives, <b>Qualified Opinions</b> focuses on the human side of audit:</p><ul><li>What it’s really like to build a career in Big 4 and Top 50 firms</li><li>How quality, culture, and transformation collide in practice</li><li>The realities young professionals don’t hear in training</li><li>Where the profession is heading—and how to navigate it confidently</li></ul><p></p><p>Episodes feature relaxed, story‑driven conversations between the hosts and guests who add meaningful perspective—firm leaders, educators, industry voices, and professionals who’ve seen the system from the inside.</p><p></p><p>Approachable but substantive. Candid but constructive.<br />This is the show for accounting and audit professionals who want context—not just conclusions.</p><p></p><p><b>Qualified Opinions</b> is a flagship content series from <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cpaclub.cpa/" target="_blank">CPAClub</a>, built to inform, challenge, and modernize the conversation around public accounting.</p>
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May 20, 2026
From Private to IPO: What AI Is Doing to the Audit Profession
<p>Navneet Sharma has guided companies through the IPO process roughly 30 times. He is a Partner at KNAV, a global accounting and advisory firm operating across seven countries. He serves on the AICPA Auditing Standards Review Committee, has been recognized with 40 Under 40 honors in both the U.S. and India, and is a Forbes Best in State honoree. He is also one of the few people in this profession willing to say out loud exactly what AI is — and is not — doing on live audit engagements today.</p><p>In this episode, Drew Carrick and Chris Vanover dig into two conversations that do not usually share the same room: the behind-the-scenes reality of taking a company public, and what AI-driven audit tools are actually delivering in practice right now.</p><p>Topics covered include:</p><ul><li>Why being audit-ready does not mean being IPO-ready, and what private companies consistently miss</li><li>The timeline disconnect between management, the board, and the audit team</li><li>What it feels like to work inside a live IPO process and why one CFO told Navneet he loved it once and will never do it again</li><li>Whether the proposed shift to semi-annual public company reporting is good or bad for the profession</li><li>The KNAV AI tools currently deployed on real engagements — memo analysis, contract summarization, and vouching automation</li><li>The "human in the loop" protocol KNAV built to ensure staff are genuinely engaged with AI output, not just clicking through it</li><li>How firms should be rethinking entry-level training now that AI handles what used to teach professional judgment</li><li>Where AI audit standards actually stand within the AICPA and PCAOB right now</li></ul><p>This episode is CPE eligible on the Earmark app.</p><p>Qualified Opinions is a flagship content series from CPA Club, built to inform, challenge, and modernize the conversation around public accounting. New episodes release every first and third Wednesday of the month. Available on YouTube and all major streaming platforms.</p>
May 6, 2026
Stop Surviving the Grind: How to Actually Thrive in Public Accounting
<p>The skills that get you into public accounting are not the skills that keep you whole once you're inside. Ellen Sulistio spent a decade at a Big 4 firm and figured out the difference between surviving and actually thriving — then built those principles into an entire organization.</p><p></p><p>Nobody puts "survived seven busy seasons without losing myself" on their resume. But maybe they should.</p><p>In Episode 3 of Qualified Opinions, Drew Carrick (The Rapping CPA) and co-host Chris Vanover sit down with Ellen Sulistio, Senior Vice President at CPA Club. Ellen spent a decade at a Big 4 firm — not just grinding through it, but actually learning how to sustain herself inside it. And then she took those lessons and built them into the culture of an entire organization: four-day work weeks, no billable hour pressure, and real structural choices around wellbeing that aren't just perks on a careers page.</p><p></p><p>This episode covers the human side of the profession that never makes it into the recruiting pitch:</p><ul><li>What it looks like to build a nonlinear career inside Big 4 — from audit to national office learning & development</li><li>Why your best performers aren't always your best teachers, and what that costs the people below them</li><li>How a PwC senior retreat became a turning point — and what a high energy score in a room of 95% burned-out peers actually signals</li><li>The burnout checklist the AICPA released — and what it says about the state of the profession</li><li>Why the 4-day work week is structurally incompatible with the billable hour model</li><li>How CPA Club eliminated 40–60 hours of manual work per project through automation — and why that's a people decision as much as an efficiency one</li><li>Work-life integration vs. work-life balance: the distinction that actually matters</li><li>The newly coined concept of "career creep" — and how to stop it before it takes over</li><li>Mentorship as transportation: how to get someone from Point A to Point B without defining either one for them</li><li>What to say to someone who's two years into the profession and already running on fumes</li></ul><p></p><hr /><p></p><p>Earn CPE credit for this episode by taking the quiz on the Earmark app. New episodes every first and third Wednesday of the month.</p><p>Qualified Opinions is powered by CPA Club <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cpaclub.cpa/" target="_blank">https://cpaclub.cpa/</a> — transforming accounting firms and professionals to create a better future for the entire industry.<br /><br />Ellen's LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/esulistio/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/esulistio/</a></p><p>Drew's LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewcarrick/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewcarrick/</a></p><p>Chris' LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisvcpa/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisvcpa/</a></p>
April 15, 2026
How Important is Audit Quality Actually?
<p>Audit quality has often been an overlooked part of public accounting firm operations, even though it is one of the most important parts of the profession. When Enron and Arthur Andersen collapsed, and the PCAOB was born, audit quality had a moment in the spotlight. Even with control requirements and standards being put in place, many firms often talked the talk without walking the walk.</p><p><br /></p><p>Drew Carrick, The Rapping CPA, and host of Qualified Opinions, alongside co-host Chris Vanover, President & Founder of CPAClub, sit down with author of “The Truth About Public Accounting” and the audit partner who wrote the infamous anonymous letter to the PCAOB on audit quality, Bob Conway. They discuss how the PCAOB originated, how audit quality has (necessarily) evolved over time, and why it is now more important than ever to understand the significance of quality audits.</p><p><br /></p><p>Powered by <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cpaclub.cpa/" target="_blank">CPAClub</a>, this episode of Qualified Opinions can be found on-demand on the Earmark app, and is available there for CPE credit. New episodes every first and third Wednesday of each month.</p><p><br /></p><p>Episode 2: How Important is Audit Quality Actually? (April 14, 2026)</p>
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- What is Qualified Opinions?
<p><b>Real conversations for the modern audit professional.</b></p><p><b>Qualified Opinions</b> is a conversational, insight‑driven talk show designed for today’s accounting and audit professionals who want more than textbook answers and webinar jargon.</p><p></p><p>Hosted by Drew Carrick (aka <i>The Rapping CPA</i>) alongside Chris Vanover, the show blends real‑world experience, career perspective, and candid discussion on what’s actually happening inside public accounting. Each episode explores the intersection of <b>audit quality, firm culture, career growth, and the business of the profession</b>—with honesty, humor, and practical insight.</p><p></p><p>Rather than technical deep dives, <b>Qualified Opinions</b> focuses on the human side of audit:</p><ul><li>What it’s really like to build a career in Big 4 and Top 50 firms</li><li>How quality, culture, and transformation collide in practice</li><li>The realities young professionals don’t hear in training</li><li>Where the profession is heading—and how to navigate it confidently</li></ul><p></p><p>Episodes feature relaxed, story‑driven conversations between the hosts and guests who add meaningful perspective—firm leaders, educators, industry voices, and professionals who’ve seen the system from the inside.</p><p></p><p>Approachable but substantive. Candid but constructive.<br />This is the show for accounting and audit professionals who want context—not just conclusions.</p><p></p><p><b>Qualified Opinions</b> is a flagship content series from <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cpaclub.cpa/" target="_blank">CPAClub</a>, built to inform, challenge, and modernize the conversation around public accounting.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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