Public Accounting vs. Industry Accounting with Kaiser Permanente’s Okorie Ramsey

Okorie Ramsey has been a CPA for almost 15 years and is currently the Vice President of Sarbanes/Oxley at Kaiser Permanente and the Vice Chairman of the American Institute of Certified Accountants.

Okorie is a California Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Project Management Professional (PMP), and Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA). He also holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting from San Francisco State University (SFSU) and a Kaiser Permanente Executive Leadership Program Certificate from Harvard Business School.

Okorie serves on the Board of Directors for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (the Association), as well as serving as Vice Chairman of the AICPA.

Okorie also represents the State of California as a council member of the AICPA, and is a Past President of the California Society of CPAs (CalCPA) Board of Trustees for the Education Foundation, Past Chairman of the Accounting Career Awareness Program (ACAP) San Francisco Bay Area and a former adjunct professor for SFSU’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) program. Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of Accounting Automation:

• The difference between public accounting and industry accounting.
• Characteristics that make people more suited to public or industry accounting.
• What public accounting can do for you.
• The six principles of leadership and how they apply to accounting.
• Why you should invest in networking and building relationships.
• How to build a network.
• How to educate yourself on the benefits of tech within accounting.

Resources:

• Kaiser Permanente
• AICPA
• Harvard Business Review
• NxtStep

Connecting with Okorie Ramsey:

• LinkedIn

Connecting with the host:

• Sean Boyce on LinkedIn

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