2013 Readers Choice Awards: The Votes are In
Insight: Tablets started out as mostly fun entertainment devices, but they have quickly become a light-duty replacement for some laptops, providing work applications and mobile access to professional data without having to squint at a smart phone screen. The iPad continues to rule here, as well, but several other brands are strong with our readers.
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Printers & Scanners
Insight: These devices are integral to all firms, especially as they continue to digitize and take everything paperless.
- HP 41%
- Brother 15%
- Fujitsu 12.5%
- Canon 9.5%
- Dell 7%
- Xerox 4.5%
- Epson 3.5%
- Lexmark 3%
- Others 4%
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Insight: Sometimes we shop for office supplies online, but most small businesses and accounting firms still shop in physical stores.
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OUT-OF-OFFICE
Insight: Everybody’s more mobile it seems, or at least have more options for remotely accessing work and entertainment via phones and tablets. Yet, as mobile as we are, speaking personally at least, I don’t seem to get the exercise I know I should. Our readers seem to agree.
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New Technologies for Professional Firms
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Technology continues to shape the modern tax and accounting professional, and certainly is helping firms be more productive and profitable, as they can get more done and serve more clients, on more profitable engagements. Thank you to the more than 2,000 voters who took the time to share their views in the 2013 Readers Choice Awards. As always, let us know if there are any additional programs or technologies you think would be a fit for the awards.
