9 Number-Crunching Accountant Influencers to Follow

Accounting may not be the most captivating topic but it’s an essential industry all the same. Without it, businesses, nonprofits and even influencers would be left in financial chaos. These 9 accountant influencers share their knowledge on social media with videos, infographics, and memes that are not only informative, but also entertaining.

9 accountant influencers doing the math

James Hearle

James created the Accounting Stuff channel on YouTube in 2018 to share his knowledge and experience as an accountant at the “Big Four.” He helps bookkeepers, students, and small-business owners learn accounting basics for free. Topics include financial statements, calculating depreciation to using Quickbooks and accounting for inventory. His 368K subscribers can also find a variety of content under his mini-series tutorials, where he explains assets, liabilities, equity, and cash-flow statements.

Sara Marie

Sara is a young mom working on her MBA who shares her own CPA journey with her 60.3K subscribers on YouTube. With nearly 100 videos on her accounting playlist, she gives her viewers insight into her life as an accountant and answers questions about what they might expect if they follow in her footsteps. Content varies from sample accounting homework questions to Excel basics and how to land an accounting internship or job.

Justin

Justin is a CPA who loves thrifting and online reselling, and he shares his successful methods via videos on his YouTube account, the Flipping Accountant. His how-to services cover topics such as downloading annual sales reports and 1099 tax forms from eBay, getting mailing batch reports for Amazon merchant-fulfilled orders and preparing taxes. He also explains how to download the Amazon Seller app and dedicates an entire playlist to the Brickseek app.

Casino

With 36.7K subscribers on YouTube, Casino keeps his audience engaged by creating videos for both accountants and those considering the career. Content on how to become an accountant and the top three reasons to get an accounting degree are balanced with educational videos on tax evasion vs. tax avoidance and thinking like an auditor. Casino also explains the different types of accounting jobs.

Blair Cook

Along with his partner, Jen, Blair creates explanatory videos for financial professionals and those aspiring to reach the office of the CFO. His Introduction to Accounting series covers debits and credits, journal entries, and posting entries to a trial balance. There are also videos on your first 100 days as CFO and a crash course in strategic management.

Bill Hanna

Bill’s YouTube channel, the Financial Controller, provides his 73.7K subscribers with lessons he learned over his 15-year career in auditing and corporate accounting. If you’re looking for information on the titles, duties, and salary range for entry-level accounting jobs or the job duties, qualifications, and salaries for accountants at Amazon, Bill has them. He also shows his audience how to find mistakes in the income statement, examples of return on investment, and how to read and analyze the balance sheet.

The Big 4 Accountant

To lighten up the mood and reputation of the industry, this Instagram account is focused on funny tweets and memes about being an accountant. Some come across as inside jokes because they refer to specific terminology, like “trial balance,” while others are highly relatable content no matter your career field. There are quite a few jokes about how miserable it is to work in the industry, but it’s all meant in good fun.

Carter Cofield

Carter is a CPA who uses his Instagram account to teach entrepreneurs how to live tax-free (or as close as possible). He shares his favorite tax-deductible expenses for business travel, explains how rich people avoid taxes legally, and covers how the Augusta Rule can be used to get tax-free rental income. Carter says he loves teaching tax-saving strategies and he sometimes teams up with other financial advisers to teach masterclasses on financial matters.

Professor Farhat

Professor Farhat says his lectures can help viewers pass the CPA exam and accounting courses, and he must be doing something right to have accrued 148K subscribers on YouTube. His spectrum of content covers cost accounting, not-for-profit accounting, and auditing and other assurance services. There are CPA exam practice questions and playlists for beginner, intermediate, and advanced accounting.