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Speaker: Sean Stein Smith, Associate Professor of Accounting at Lehman College
Description: Sean Stein Smith brings the accountant's perspective to digital ethics. The episode examines blockchain, cryptoassets, decentralized finance, AI-assisted auditing, and the profession's public-interest role as both a gatekeeper and a user of automated systems. It also considers how accountants can verify algorithms and financial infrastructure that are increasingly opaque.
About the speaker: Sean Stein Smith is an Associate Professor of Accounting at Lehman College, where he developed CUNY's first courses on blockchain and cryptoassets. He advises professional and industry organizations, trains practitioners, and writes about accounting, financialreporting, digital assets, and policy.
Show notes:
- Nizan Packin and Yafit Lev-Aretz, Decentralized Credit Scoring: Black Box 3.0
- Nizan Packin and Yafit Lev-Aretz, Crypto-Native Credit Score: Between Financial Inclusion and Predatory Lending
- Wall Street Blockchain Alliance
- Sean Stein Smith's Forbescolumn on accounting and financial technology
