The Accountant Quits rebrands to Onchain Finance Institute (OCF)
Audit readiness for crypto companies: key challenges, wallet controls, and documentation to prepare digital asset businesses for audits, governance, and regulatory scrutiny.
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Five years ago, we made a bet.
The internet of money was coming. And accountants weren't ready.
Rather than a prediction, it was an observation that all companies will eventually transact on blockchain rails. Stablecoins for payments. DeFi for borrowing and lending. Tokenized real-world assets for stocks, bonds.
Which means if you’re an accounting professional, it’s critical for you to understand how to book and report crypto transactions in your company’s income statement and balance sheet.
Turns out, the bet was right.
Visa is in crypto. BlackRock is in crypto. PayPal, Stripe, all in. Stablecoins now move trillions a year, rivaling the payment rails your finance team uses every day.
In 2021, there were two tools for crypto bookkeeping (Cryptio, Bitwave). Today there are 20+ as listed in our tools directory.
2026 is the year the world goes onchain.
And that means The Accountant Quits becomes the Onchain Finance Institute (OCF Institute), the leading educational provider for finance teams adopting digital assets.
How we’re evolving
What started as a podcast,106 episodes, the longest-running show on crypto accounting and finance, has evolved into a full educational and community platform.
Today at the OCF Institute, you can;
- Upskill with job-ready training on onchain accounting and finance,
- Network during IRL events and our community platform,
- Get hired in the digital assets industry through our scholarship program for remote roles at crypto accounting firms.
Our Educational Approach
Here's what we actually do. and what we've always done.
Our students don't come to us because we convinced them crypto matters. They come because their company already made that decision and now they need practical skills, fast. How to implement a subledger, bookkeep onchain transactions, report crypto under GAAP.
We don't do theory. We don't do textbook knowledge that sounds impressive and helps nobody at the office.
Instead every instructor in our programs, namely the Crypto Accounting Academy and Crypto Treasury Management Academy, is a practitioner, someone currently working inside a web3 company or crypto accounting firm. So they speak the same language as our students.
Hundreds of students have graduated from these courses, and they work at leading web3 companies like Solana Foundation, BitGo, Ava Labs as well as accounting firms like KPMG and RSM.
And now AI is part of it too
Cohort 9 of the Crypto Accounting Academy starts May 7th. Cohort 3 of the Crypto Treasury Management Academy follows shortly after. Both will integrate tools like Claude, Perplexity, and ChatGPT directly into the curriculum, because these tools are already reshaping accounting workflows, and pretending otherwise would be doing our students a disservice.
We're also CPE-accredited through NASBA and The CPD Group, for what that's worth to your continuing education requirements.
What about The Accountant Quits?
It stays. As the podcast. Because the name was never about leaving accounting. It was a provocation. A dare.
Are you going to keep doing what you've always done, or are you going to upskill with AI and blockchain and actually stay relevant?
Anyone who's upskilled with digital assets already answered that question.
They're all The Accountant Quits.
Welcome to the OCF Institute. The work continues.
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Umar Mallam Hassam
Umar, a Chartered Accountant and previous External Auditor at Deloitte & BDO, is the creator of The Accountant Quits.
By educating accountants about crypto accounting, Umar aims to help accountants upskill themselves for new career opportunities in Web3.
