Welcome to Across the Network, the regular news podcast from CAW Network USA, bringing you the stories, research and people shaping Chartered Accountancy across the United States, Canada and the Caribbean.

In this first edition, host James looks at:

• The member who became an author. Shane Rogers, a Chartered Accountant in internal audit, has published So You Want To Be an Internal Audit Rock Star?, 65,000 words written over two and a half years, much of it on his phone while waiting at his son's sports practice.

• Your invitation to shape the profession's biggest AI study. Chartered Accountants Worldwide, its member institutes and research firm Ipsos have launched Wave Two of their global study on AI and the future of the profession, covering traditional, generative and agentic AI. It takes 15 minutes, responses are confidential, and it closes on 1 September.

• From an audit trail in Dublin to an office in New York. Breffni O'Donnell talks to Nancy Chakabuda on Career Conversations about why the CA qualification is a springboard, not a box.

Read more on every story at cawnetworkusa.com and follow the show so the next edition finds you.

Across the Network is researched and drafted with the support of artificial intelligence, then reviewed, shaped and signed off by our human editorial team.