Blood, Sweat & Balance Sheets
The accounting profession is in a state of flux. With a shocking number leaving the industry and fewer students opting to major in Accounting, it's clear that change is needed — and fast. Hosted by FloQast co-founder and CEO Mike Whitmire, inactive CPA, Blood, Sweat & Balance Sheets explores the modern accounting landscape to identify how to uplift the profession, ways in which leaders can evolve operations to empower employees, and highlights individuals making material impacts in finance and accounting.
Blood, Sweat & Balance Sheets
“How Do You Close the Books?” Audit to Accounting, to Sales: FloQast’s Shivang Patel Has Done It All
Shivang Patel was on track to make audit partner when a client poached him to join his team at a rapidly-growing, soon-to-IPO tech company. After learning the books, Shivang was thriving in his role as Accounting Manager, fully overseeing the Month-End Close, when a chance meeting to discuss a software solution designed to streamline the Close change his professional trajectory forever.
Nearing his seventh-anniversary at FloQast, learn how Shivang transitioned from audit to accounting, and from accounting to sales. In this episode of Blood, Sweat & Balance Sheets, Mike and Shivang discuss how he got to FloQast, learning to sell, launching FloQast's Sales Engineering organization, and taking on a new role as Senior Director, Growth Markets, and just what that entails.
