CPA Practice

MAY 8, 2024

By Dr. Sangeeta Chhabra There is no question about how CPAs have evolved in their role over the past couple of decades, but what has really been behind it and, more importantly, how do you they get there? Moreover, CPAs are now being perceived as critical thinkers with a vision for business growth and expansion.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 28, 2023

Small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are looking to invest $10,000 more in their suite of technology solutions this year than they were in 2022, a new study finds. SMBs are already planning to up their spend on AI-based technology. This is true not just for business owners, but for accountants too,” said Shimamoto.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 7, 2023

The Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination (CPA Exam) is regularly updated to reflect enhancements to accounting and auditing standards as well as tax laws and regulations — and to improve the efficiency of the exam. What are the 2024 CPA Exam changes? However, the updates scheduled for the 2024 CPA Exam will be significant.

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CPA Practice

MAY 15, 2024

The technologies used in professional accounting firms continue to evolve and shape how practices function, from client service, to staffing issues, and overall management and growth. Thank you to the more than 5,500 readers who participated in voting this year. Now, on to the results! WINNER: TheTaxBook – Tax Materials Inc.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 22, 2024

Yet, for many CPA firms, particularly small to mid-sized organizations, the current pace of technological advancement can seem dauting. The majority of tech giants today are former tech underdogs from 20 years ago, and all of them started their journey through tackling existing issues first, one piece at a time.

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A new study on how accounting professionals feel about their profession, job satisfaction, and automation has found that, while they are overwhelmingly positive about the profession, there is a clear need for more automation.

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Anders CPA

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Anders Technology, a service line of Anders CPAs + Advisors, is proud to be recognized on CRN’s Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Pioneer 250 category for 2024. As a Microsoft Gold Partner and a Dell Gold Partner, Anders Technology can provide mid-size to large companies the highest level of technology expertise.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 9, 2024

With the plethora of highly sensitive personal and financial data being shared between firms and clients, it’s the perfect time for bad actors to strike, especially as the April 15th deadline inches closer and CPAs push to get more done with less time. These updates often include patches for security vulnerabilities.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 28, 2024

CPA Practice Advisor has announced the 2024 Tax and Technology Innovation Award winners and finalists. Now in their 21st year, the awards highlight technologies that advance the profession. It’s an honor to share all of these new technologies with our readers each year.”

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The retirement of CPAs contributes to the shortage of qualified tax practitioners, with nearly 75% of the workforce in 2020 reaching retirement age, according to the AICPA. The Talent Pipeline Shortage In the past, public accounting experienced a natural cycle of employees moving up the ranks as older, established CPAs met retirement age.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Scores of certified public accountants (CPAs) are leaving the profession or retiring, and fewer candidates are available to replace them, leaving many organizations short staffed and concerned for their futures. However, there is greater room for technology to assist in these efforts.

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CPA Practice

JULY 3, 2024

Technology can address both of these problems, from improved cybersecurity platforms to artificial intelligence-based tools to take over the routine processes normally handled by staff. It’s crucial to remember that while technology is essential, human involvement in financial services work remains indispensable.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 8, 2023

The American Institute of CPAs and Chartered Institute of Management Accountants honored eleven CPAs during AICPA & CIMA ENGAGE 2023 in Las Vegas this week. The awards highlight CPA efforts in a specific accounting specialty area, excellence in volunteer efforts or significant contributions to the accounting profession.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 28, 2024

Increased tech skills, the use of artificial intelligence (AI), and surviving the economy dominated the results of the 2024 Intuit QuickBooks Accountant Technology Survey of 700 U.S. Client needs are increasing, particularly with financial and technology management, but technology is key to saving time and elevating advisory services.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Once upon a time, tax preparation was a document-heavy practice, requiring people to send their sensitive documents to their CPAs. It also introduces unique challenges that CPAs and tax professionals can’t ignore. It also introduces unique challenges that CPAs and tax professionals can’t ignore. Those days are long gone.

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Ryan Lazanis

JANUARY 23, 2023

It’s my belief that hiring a virtual assistant for CPAs is one of the best choices you can make when scaling your firm. 4) They Free Up Your Time Too many CPAs and firm owners have a whole host of tasks they’re handling that are eating up their precious time. Let’s get started.

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Combined with Navan’s award-winning travel and expense management platform, the automated experience enables accountants to advise clients on T&E spend and focus on work that provides the most value to their clients. There are more than 86,000 CPA and accounting firms in the U.S.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 7, 2023

Despite high demand for CPAs, accounting firms struggle to hire accountants. With an onslaught of economic disruptions and complexities on their plate, a CPA shortage proves especially burdensome for middle market companies. Technology also gives staff real-time access to their data, from anywhere at any time. By Cameron White.

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Insightful Accountant

JULY 8, 2024

The Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs has published a 29-page CPA firm Tech Report with insightful information on the use of technology and where firms are moving related to tech.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 3, 2023

Despite high demand for CPAs, accounting firms struggle to hire accountants. With an onslaught of economic disruptions and complexities on their plate, a CPA shortage proves especially burdensome for middle market companies. Technology also gives staff real-time access to their data, from anywhere at any time. By Cameron White.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 8, 2023

However, with the rapid evolution of technology, navigating the high-density workloads brought in annually by tax season can improve. In return, your firm can have CPAs or enrolled agents acting as independent contractors from the service provider’s network to prepare or review tax returns.

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

SafeSend, the leading provider of automation technology for tax and accounting professionals, announced Client Portal, a new feature within its flagship product, SafeSend One. SafeSend One helps CPAs meet clients’ expectations.” Client Portal is available for each tier of SafeSend One at no additional cost.

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CPA Practice

MAY 2, 2024

Hosts Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley, CPA, look at Datamatics , a digital technologies, operations, and experiences company that enables hundreds of global enterprises to go “Deep in Digital” to enhance their productivity and customer experience to create a sustainable competitive advantage. I just updated it.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Transcript (Note: There may be typos due to automated transcription errors. I’m Randy Johnston with brand grizzly as co host for the technology lab, we are pleased to have you back with us again. And we have a separate Technology Lab on data Snipper. But even cch access tax is going to get some a bot automation.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

By Chris Howard Executive Summary The accounting profession stands at the precipice of transformative change driven by rapid advancements in technology and evolving client expectations. 57% of respondents expect more work to be automated in the next five years, signaling a shift toward increased efficiency and productivity.

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ThomsonReuters

MAY 15, 2023

As AI technology becomes increasingly sophisticated, it presents CPAs with a range of opportunities to enhance their advisory services through automated processes, real-time insights, and personalized advice. This technology offers a range of advantages that CPAs can leverage to provide better services to their clients.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 15, 2024

Sangeeta Chhabra CPAs and finance professionals today understand the importance of transparency and collaboration; however, lack of uniformity acts as an obstacle to seamless coherence in data management processes. Advancements in NLP technology will likely lead to even more sophisticated applications in accountancy.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2019

The Certified Personal Accountant (CPA) today now has a plethora of FinTech solutions they can use to manage their clients’ money, with the number of digital tools — including cloud accounting portals, cash flow forecasting solutions and intelligent technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) — continuing to rise.

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LSLCPAs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

There’s so much cool technology to aid companies with their myriad of choices that it’s hard to know […]. The post Optimizing Tech Spending – What to Do About the Trends in Technology appeared first on LSL CPAs.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 30, 2024

CCH AnswerConnect is backed by the trusted CCH editorial team of CPAs and tax law experts, and designed to deliver comprehensive answers and information as an all-in-one tax research tool. Or use the below podcast player to listen: – Transcript (Note: There may be typos due to automated transcription errors.) . –

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

By Crystal Blythe, IDology Once upon a time, tax preparation was a document-heavy practice, requiring people to send their sensitive documents to their CPAs. It also introduces unique challenges that CPAs and tax professionals can’t ignore. It also introduces unique challenges that CPAs and tax professionals can’t ignore.

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CPA Practice

JULY 17, 2024

With fewer young people entering the profession and an increasing number of baby boomers, who account for three-quarters of CPAs, heading for retirement, a Bloomberg analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that there are 340,000 fewer accountants than there were five years ago. Investors are latching onto the idea.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

CPAs are essential for financial reporting, advanced tax preparation and other dull-but-important tasks that keep the economy going. These days, the accounting profession is in crisis as CPAs retire and the pipeline to replace them dries up. Approximately three-fourths of CPAs today are expected to retire within the next 15 years.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

“IRS tech is so ‘archaic’ the agency struggles to find people to work it” from The Washington Post : The Internal Revenue Service, which funds nearly everything the federal government does, uses information technology that is creaking with old age. Yet that is what the IRS deals with every day.” Go forth and account.

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ThomsonReuters

JULY 11, 2023

They are also experiencing an internal struggle to cope with the decreasing talent pool and growing need to use technology to stay efficient. For many firms, a more economical solution lies in improving the processes and workflow through automation. Technology is stepping up to address several of the issues.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In the 2000s and 2010s, CPAs witnessed technology advancements that largely accrued to accounting-centric workflows. Many staff are still reliant on the exact same technology and processes they leveraged at the turn of the century. AI is a powerful tool for automating data entry. By Eyal Shinar.

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Going Concern

MARCH 1, 2023

No, it’s that the tech aren’t cool enough. They want to abandon outdated technologies and fully embrace new digital tools, stretch the limits of their abilities, and collaborate freely with others who are doing the same. Better technology and automation have their place. Where are all the new CPAs?

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