We’re all familiar with the old cliches about needing to keep up with changing technology, right? We’ve heard it from basically everyone, starting with your parents telling you to get a job involving computers before you ever went off to college, but there’s a good reason why it comes up so often: it’s true. There are precious few job fields…
The future of CPAs, and accountants in general, may be disrupted by the latest fintech to be talked about, promoted, derided or what have you: Blockchain. Blockchain is essentially a decentralized digital ledger system. It’s database software which resides on individual computers as opposed to one server so users can deal directly with each other in real time. Think in…
In a previous post we talked about how technical savvy was one of the top skills a CPA needs these days. But this is an important enough topic that it deserves its own post. Accounting firms are moving towards the cloud and a paperless office. It’s a more efficient and secure way to handle data and protect client information. It’s…
I hate the proliferation of articles touting the 5 or the 10 best or worst of something. It’s click bait and so many times the things that comprise the list are of dubious value, included only to get a nice round number. You don’t see a lot of lists with 4 or 7 items. But, honestly, as I researched this…
