Automating and Simplifying the Complexities of Lease Accounting | Adam Riches

Heather Smith
32 min readMay 22, 2024

“Accounting has struggled to stay relevant in the software space. It hasn’t seen those big gains you’d expect in a profession as straightforward as ours. The debits and credits have been around for 500 years. That hasn’t changed much. But software has a long way to go before it brings huge technical advantages to our profession.”

– Adam Riches, CEO & Co-Founder of Netgain.

Today, I’m speaking with Adam Riches, CEO and co-founder of Netgain. He has a deep understanding of accounting history and its impact on businesses and regions.

Before Netgain, he was part of the Strategic Initiatives team and the Finance Center of Excellence at NetSuite. He also served as the controller for publicly traded mining companies in Denver. Adam began his career as an auditor with Ernst & Young. He is a CPA with a master’s degree in accountancy from the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University.

In this episode, we discuss. . .

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