Major Topics
- Software products by service lines
- Innovation and automation tools
- Specific technology stacks to improve productivity and profitability
- Trends in the profession, including supplier changes
Learning Objectives
- List changes made by major suppliers to the profession
- Identify software for service line and niche solutions
- Define automation opportunities in accounting firms
- Differentiate tools from a technology stack that fits your firm best
Description
It’s an exciting time to manage a public practice accounting firm! In addition to technical knowledge in tax, auditing, and accounting, we need to understand data analytics and security options in an advisory context. Beyond that, we must manage the practice and people while profitably delivering excellent client service in a competitive environment for the owners. Further, portals, CAS stacks, PBC lists, electronic signatures, Cloud, and robotic process automation are technologies we need to understand beyond our tax, audit, practice management, document management, and workflow systems. This CPA Firm Update session independently covers significant trends and technologies for CPA firms, which will help you understand your current and future choices. With such rapid change, what will your firm do?