In this episode, host Jodi Ann Ray, President and CEO of the Texas Society of CPAs, chats with Aaron Kenigsberg, an accounting student at Houston Community College and incoming associate at PwC. Aaron shares his unique journey from earning a Bachelor’s in Musical Theater at Emerson College to discovering his passion for accounting during his MBA at Texas A&M Corpus Christi. He reflects on how the pandemic sparked his career shift, his experiences managing his family’s restaurant, and the challenges and rewards of exploring new professional paths. Aaron highlights the invaluable support he received from TXCPA, his strategic approach to preparing for the CPA exam, and his excitement for starting his new role at PwC.
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Show notes
Aaron Kenigsberg is an accounting student at Houston Community College and incoming associate at PwC. With a Bachelor of Fine Arts in musical theatre from Emerson College in Boston, MA and a Master of Business Administration from Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, he possesses a diverse set of experiences that provide him with a unique viewpoint he utilizes in whatever he undertakes. These experiences have varied from performing professionally as an actor in regional theatres across the country, to managing the restaurant his family owned for 45 years during the COVID-19 pandemic, all while maintaining a full course load as a graduate student. Aaron currently lives in Houston, TX where he is an avid pickleball player, a photographer, and pretty good in the kitchen if he does say so himself.
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