Chief Financial Officer, Under Armour
Search every verified David Bergman interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. David Bergman, Chief Financial Officer at Under Armour, discussed his career and the role of the CPA profession in a December 2024 podcast. Bergman stated that he has been a CPA for 30 years and said he feels he is learning something new every week. He described the CPA profession as bringing "extra clarity or integrity to the business world." Bergman noted that his accounting background and CPA certification provided the building blocks that allowed him to move into treasury, financial planning and analysis, and ultimately become CFO of a multi-billion dollar company. In a September 2020 appearance, Bergman, then identified as a Principal at Health Management Associates, discussed digital health and telemedicine. He described opportunities to use digital tools to address provider shortages and to deliver care such as medication-assisted therapy for opioid addiction. Bergman said that by using digital health tools, providers can remove barriers for patients, such as the need to travel long distances, and help them achieve recovery.
“I've been a CPA now for 30 years and I feel like I'm learning something new every week and I don't know you'd be able to say that in a lot of other professions.”
“The CPA profession kind of brings that extra clarity or integrity to the business world which I think is really important and I think there's a lot of value to that.”
“Understanding the revenue implications and what decreases in net revenue implications and gross margin implications and SG&A implications and all the way down through and the aspects of how to drive working capital, having that accounting background in the CPA just keeps you very grounded.”
“If you start down the accounting road, become a CPA and you ultimately want to move towards the finance or FP&A road, you have a lot of the essential building blocks to be able to do that fairly easily.”
Even at its highest levels, the CPA profession's purpose goes back to critical basics like ethics, business acumen, and lifelong ...... CPA coming out of school great stuff there from David Bergman CFO with Under Armour so glad he could take time out his busy ...
David Bergman is a Principal at Health Management Associates. He joins in this edition of "What They're Watching" to discuss the ...
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