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Firm Automation

February 6, 2018 

5 Qualities to Differentiate Your Accounting Firm

The days of thinking that “process” is something that only low-level staff and administrative staff work on are over. Those days should’ve been over ten years ago, but they’re definitely over today. In future-ready firms, process is a core strategic ...

Dustin Hostetler

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January 19, 2018 

Finance Sector Faces Disruptive Technologies

Electronic payments. Cryptocurrency. Artificial intelligence. What once were words in science fiction movies are moving into the realm of possibility in commercial payments and banking, according to TD Bank's 2017 Treasury Management Survey.

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January 16, 2018 

Affluent Americans Shopping More at Discount Retailers

42 percent of affluent shoppers now frequently shop at discount retailers versus only 27 percent at full price retailers, with 36 percent saying their discount shopping has increased. Twenty-one percent of affluent respondents also reported they were ...

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January 9, 2018 

Accounting Firm Revenues and Profits Continue to Climb

Revenues were up a solid 7.8%, a tad less than the prior year’s 8.1%. Growth from mergers accounted for 26% of total growth compared to 28% the previous year and 30% the year before. So from that, one could conclude that the impact of mergers on ...

Firm Automation

January 5, 2018 

Finance Pros Preparing for Innovation and Disruption

While AI and robotics may represent the long-term future of treasury management, more than half of finance professionals surveyed (52 percent) expect faster or real-time processing to experience major growth in payments innovation in 2018.

 5 Predictions for Accounting in 2018

December 21, 2017 

5 Predictions for Accounting in 2018

Regardless of the source, there’s a lot in motion that’s going to shake up the profession in the coming year. In the spirit of helping out our fellow accountants, here are a few predictions for the accounting professional in 2018.

 2018 IT Predictions for Tax and Accounting Firms

December 19, 2017 

2018 IT Predictions for Tax and Accounting Firms

University professor John M. Richardson summed up his view of the future by stating: “When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.”

Roman Kepczyk

Firm Automation

December 14, 2017 

Is Automation Killing Finance?

The automation shift that is now in motion boils down to this: By automating manual, slow, disconnected spreadsheet-based planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes, Finance increasingly will be able to spend far more time leveraging data than ...

Firm Automation

November 30, 2017 

Accounting Pros Optimistic on Automation of Profession

More than nine in ten finance and accounting professionals (92%) are optimistic about increased automation in the profession, according to new research from Renaix, the international recruitment consultancy for finance and accounting.