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Started as an auditor for Ernst & Ernst, now Ernst & Young.
It was torture for me to fill out the forms. I hired people to do that in my firm and limited my work to problem solving, forensic examinations, handling IRS audits for other CPA’s and preparers, tax court cases, and as a tax law professor. Did many of the professional certifications... CMA, CIA,..... For me it was all too boring.

Changed hats midstream, returned to the university as a student to study psychology and then neuroscience. I have found studying the human brain and consciousness much more intellectually stimulating than tax law!

I still retain the CPA license just to help out friends.

My mom started with Peat Marwick and Main, when they were that. She was a specialist in multi-state returns.

Started as an auditor for Ernst & Ernst, now Ernst & Young. It was torture for me to fill out the forms. I hired people to do that in my firm and limited my work to problem solving, forensic examinations, handling IRS audits for other CPA’s and preparers, tax court cases, and as a tax law professor. Did many of the professional certifications... CMA, CIA,..... For me it was all too boring.

First of all, as someone who worked in corporate accounting for many years for a publicly traded firm, external auditors do no simply fill out forms. I’ve worked closely with auditors including auditors from Ernst & Young and that’s not what they do.

Next if you had, while working for a firm like Ernst & Ernst, now Ernst & Young, the ability to hire other people to do the work that you didn’t want to do, found “boring”, having a CPA or CMA, CIA wouldn’t cut it, to rise to that sort of level in that sort of firm, an MBA at minimum would be required.

“Tax Law Professor” – Really? Where? When? At what law school?

A mere CPA does not have the credentials or experience necessary to be a “professor of tax law”. You may have taught accounting and even an introductionary course at a collage or a community college as a teacher, but a “tax law professor” without a law degree? FWIW, my nephew’s mother teaches Accounting at a state college in PA but she has a Ph.D. and a JD/Masters of Taxation. Being a “professor” is a full time position, not something someone does on the side.

Changed hats midstream, returned to the university as a student to study psychology and then neuroscience. I have found studying the human brain and consciousness much more intellectually stimulating than tax law!

At what university and what degrees in those areas did you obtain? What was your thesis on?

I still retain the CPA license just to help out friends.

God help them. If you help them anything like you try to help in psychology and pseudoscience woo, they are in big trouble.