Artificial Intelligence

June 13, 2018 

Kathy Watts, CPA, CHC 2018 Most Powerful Women in Accounting Partner – Horne, LLP   What advice would you give to female college students about the opportunities for women in the accounting profession? The accounting profession offers so many avenues for success in industry and in public accounting. The sky is the limit; give it...…

June 13, 2018 

Jenni Huotari, CPA 2018 Most Powerful Women in Accounting Director of Business Outsourcing and Safety – Eide Bailly   What advice would you give to female college students about the opportunities for women in the accounting profession? The opportunities in accounting are so much broader than you could ever anticipate. A degree in accounting can...…

June 12, 2018 

By integrating content and methodology into a leading technology platform, OnPoint PCR offers a unique opportunity for firms to enhance engagement quality and be more productive. The solution – a collaboration of CPA.com, CaseWare and the American ...

June 6, 2018 

If companies fail to make artificial intelligence (AI) a core competency within the next five years, they will face either stagnation or elimination, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

June 6, 2018 

Even as artificial intelligence promises to alter the professional landscape, the vast majority of small business owners (72%) continue to rely on the human advice of their accountant, according to new data from Xero.

June 6, 2018 

Beta testing has already shown a 25% saving in the time it takes to enter bills in Xero, saving business owners hours of time across the month. Code-free accounting also increases the accuracy of business data, giving owners and advisors more quality ...

May 30, 2018 

Last year at the DigitalCPA Conference I got a chance to tour Google's Headquarters in Silicon Valley. I was with a group of leading partners in major firms including my great friend, Joey Havens. We were treated to a discussion with Google's Chief ...

May 22, 2018 

We see a number of products that are running crude AI today and vendors that are pretty far along in their use of AI. Getting products that apply to small and medium businesses are more of a challenge, but we see efforts at Intuit, Xero, BQE Core, ...

Randy Johnston

May 22, 2018 

One of the hot areas of emerging technology is Artificial Intelligence or AI. You know a topic is hot when products use the terminology in their name or in their marketing materials. We’ve see this done with “ease of use”, Cloud Computing, and Blockchain.

Randy Johnston

May 18, 2018 

Sageworks' flagship product, ProfitCents, brought to market in 1998 and based on a proprietary artificial intelligence system, was originally designed to convert financial numbers into plain language to help business owners understand their financial ...

May 14, 2018 

If you're presently using an older version of Excel, bear in mind that Excel 2019 will be released in the latter half of this year. Expect more artificial intelligence features to help you work faster and more effectively. Further, each new version of ...

David Ringstrom

May 10, 2018 

Robotic Process Automation and APIs are both excellent tools for bringing automation to the tax function. Yet the subtle differences as to how they function may determine whether or not true automation is achieved. RPAs are not hands-free automation...