The Financial Frontier
The leading podcast and research platform on digital asset taxation, compliance, accounting, and the frontier markets defining the future of finance.
Background
The Financial Frontier is the podcast and research platform dedicated to digital asset taxation, compliance, accounting, and the frontier markets rewriting the rules of finance. Launched to fill a gap in serious, practitioner-grade coverage of the digital asset landscape, the platform brings together tax attorneys, IRS officials, compliance leaders, founders, academics, and frontier market practitioners for the conversations the profession needs most.
Throughout history, wealth has been built on the frontiers of human exploration. Today, digital assets represent the frontier of finance and The Financial Frontier exists to help the people navigating it do so with clarity, rigor, and institutional-grade intelligence.
The Record
The Financial Frontier has featured former senior IRS officials, AICPA leadership, compliance executives, and frontier market practitioners across 45+ episodes. The platform’s research has been published in Tax Notes, and host Patrick Camuso has been recognized by Forbes as a Best-in-State Top CPA and serves on the AICPA Digital Assets Task Force.
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Mission
The Financial Frontier exists to bring the profession’s most important conversations on digital asset taxation, compliance, accounting, and frontier markets to the practitioners, investors, founders, and policymakers shaping the future of finance.
Latest episodes
The four most recent podcast episodes, ordered by publish date.
Navigating Crypto Audits: Insight on Internal Controls & Accounting
This episode of Financial Frontier dives into the world of cryptocurrency audits and internal controls with Dr. Andrew Belonogov, founder of the TechAccountingPro. Here, Andrew breaks down the challenges of accounting for complex crypto transactions and offers best practices for ensuring complete and accurate audits.
1099-DA: Real-World Impact on Taxpayers and Digital-Asset Platforms
Form 1099-DA will restructure how digital-asset activity is reported, reconciled, and interpreted across taxpayers, platforms, and global regulators. In this episode, Patrick Camuso, CPA is joined by Jessalyn Dean, for a discussion that breaks down the practical, operational, and product-level impacts that 1099-DA will trigger.
1099-DA and the Reliability of Crypto Tax Calculations
This episode examines how variation in crypto tax software methodologies, implementation choices, and embedded assumptions can produce materially different tax outcomes from identical data and why those differences matter as the compliance system transitions. My guest is Tyler Menzer, PhD, CPA, Assistant Professor of Accounting at Texas Christian University, whose empirical research documents these calculation inconsistencies and their implications for auditability and compliance. We discuss what this means for taxpayers, practitioners, regulators, and investors as digital asset reporting matures. Ask
The Reporting Gap: What IRS Data Shows About Crypto Tax Compliance
I'm joined by Tyler Menzer, PhD, CPA, assistant professor of accounting at TCU and co-author of new research, recently published in Review of Accounting Studies and covered in Bloomberg, that uses IRS administrative data to examine who actually reports cryptocurrency to the IRS.
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