About LedgerLearning

Welcome to LedgerLearning.com, the home of financial systems learning resources.  Here is a look at some of the resources available on this site:

  • Videos:  Over 300 released weekly as part of my vlog, they cover many topics of financial systems, including conversations with experts in financial systems and projects.
  • Blog:  Accompanying the video releases, these give additional insights in written form, and make for quick review of topics,
  • Books and White Papers: Written from my 30 years of experience in financial systems work.

I’m open to feedback for others that would be helpful.

About Me

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Kip Twitchell is a Certified Public Accountant (US CPA), consultant and system architect for over 30 years now with IBM Consulting, and the founder and managing director of Sharealedger.org, a non-profit dedicated to innovation in financial and business systems.

In his consulting career, he has consulted at 12 of the top 25 banks in the world and constructed major book-of-record systems for Fortune 500 companies and global banks.  He has deep expertise in ERP, reporting, analytics, high-volume ledger systems, and regulatory projects.

Kip is an active speaker, blogger, vlogger, and author.  As @finsysvlogger, his YouTube channel “Conversations with Kip,” has continuously released new videos since April 2016, now containing hundreds of videos with tens of thousands of views.  More of his materials are located at Ledgerlearning.com, including free access to his two books “Balancing Act: A Practical Approach to Business Event Based Insights” (2010), and “Metric Engine: Reinventing the Data Supply Chains for Business” (2015) as well as white papers and guest-lecture presentations.

He founded Sharealedger to encourage understanding of existing financial systems and promote discussion about innovation.  Our existing financial and business systems have been tuned for lower costs and higher security for decades, but the underlying architecture is decades old and based upon very limited computing capacities.   Sharealedger explores how shared ledgers might provide costs savings in these very efficient systems, providing a self-funding source for conversion to new systems.

He is a member of the Technical Standards Committee of BSV Blockchain, and a panelist at their global convention.  He is also active in the Linux Foundation’s Open Mainframe Project, as the founding chair of the GenevaERS project, which has been used to build very high volume, enterprise ledgers for national and international financial services companies, and the Open z/OS Enablement Work Group, promoting open source transformation of legacy systems, which are integral to much of our modern financial world.  Combining the old and the new has the potential to change our measurement of the world through the power of Open Source.

Kip began his career with Price Waterhouse , which became PricewaterhouseCoopers and PwC consulting in 1998 which was acquired by IBM in 2002.   He attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah majoring in accounting with a masters of accountancy emphasizing information systems–consulting.  Having grown up in Utah, he now lives in Arizona with his wife Kari, and is a proud father and grandfather.  His personal interests include thinking about the power of trust and other virtues, as shared at Virtuewheel.com