Oct 7, 2020
'The Future of The Accounting Profession' panel discussion was held as part of the AcuityCon conference for the Acuity Financial Experts team.
The global expert panel included:
- Kenji Kuramoto Founder & CEO of Acuity Financial Experts Greater Atlanta Area USA
- Michael Ly Entrepreneur | Virtual CFO | Cloud Accounting Executive | Online Bookkeeping | Speaker | Coach | Advisor Burlington, Vermont USA
- Nayo Carter-Gray, EA MBA Making Accounting a Little Less Taxing for small business owners | Advanced Certified QuickBooks Online Pro-Advisor | App & Technology Enthusiast Baltimore, Maryland Area USA
- Rachel (Leaney) Fisch, CPB Product Evangelist, Accountant Channel at Sage Greater Toronto Area Metropolitan Area Canada!
- Will Farnell Accountancy Firm founder (Farnell Clarke) , Keynote Speaker, Author of The Digital Firm and Mentor to Accounting Firms UK!
Some takeaways for me included:
🧮Microsoft Word & Excel are the most popular small business tools
🧮Compliance is not dead ☠️
🧮AI is overhyped
🧮Non-traditional firms will embrace diversity
🧮Modern firms are not old style firms using Accounting Technology
🧮We don't need to worry about QBLive
🧮Paper checks ⁉️
Thank-you Kenji Kuramoto for the opportunity. Thank you to the Acuity team who helped make this possible. Thank-you for listening to Cloud Stories. I hope you enjoyed the show. Can I encourage you to sign up to the Accounting Apps newsletter, by visiting http:// HeatherSmithAU. COM