Megan Genest Tarnow: Hire for Curiosity Rather Than Compliance

The Disruptors

With Liz Farr

for CPA Trendlines

Megan Genest Tarnow is well-known in accounting circles as the go-to expert in using QuickBooks for the fund accounting required by nonprofit entities.

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Many of the best accountants she knows have come from non-traditional backgrounds like dance or philosophy. Megan worked in theater for several years before being thrust into a finance role. Like her, these non-traditional accountants apply their native curiosity to understand how the pieces fit together. By leaning into the work and asking questions, they uncover an unknown aptitude for accounting, suggesting that perhaps we should hire for curiosity rather than compliance knowledge.