Technology

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September 8, 2014 

Adam Burnett – 2014 40 Under 40 Honoree

Adam Burnett – 34 Manager, Traininng and Consulting, CCHMinneapolis, MN   What are the key areas of your firm that have seen the greatest change/challenge in workflow over the past few years? (Or, what are the key challenges you see firms facing?) The biggest workflow challenges I see firms facing are addressing customer demands for...…

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September 8, 2014 

Roy Keely, 2014 40 Under 40 Honoree

Roy Keely – 33 VP of Market Strategy, XcentricAlpharetta, GA   To what extent have you and your practice/company embraced cloud computing? We have completely embraced the cloud! So much so, we have staked our whole company on it. We are a cloud provider to the accounting profession, and a majority of our revenue comes...…

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September 8, 2014 

Kim Hogan – 2014 40 Under 40 Honoree

Kim Hogan – 31 ECMp, CAPTUREp, Certified QuickBooks Cloud ProAdvisor Business Development Manager – Strategic AccountsIntuit, Inc. What are the key areas of your firm that have seen the greatest change/challenge in workflow over the past few years? (Or, what are the key challenges you see firms facing?) One I see everyday based on the...…

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September 8, 2014 

Elizabeth Pittelkow – 2014 40 Under 40 Honoree

Elizabeth Pittelkow, CPA, CITP, CGMA, DTM – 32 Senior Accounting ManagerArrowStream, Inc.Chicago, IL   What are the key areas of your firm that have seen the greatest change/challenge in workflow over the past few years? (Or, what are the key challenges you see firms facing?) Our accounting close process recently moved to paperless approvals and...…

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September 8, 2014 

Christopher M. DeMayo – 2014 40 Under 40

Christopher M. DeMayo, CPA, MBA – 33 Partner/Team LeaderWithumSmith+Brown, PCMorristown, NJ   What are the key areas of your firm that have seen the greatest change/challenge in workflow over the past few years?I think one of the biggest challenges I see, not only in my own firm but firms across the country, is succession to...…

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September 8, 2014 

Louie Calvin – 2014 40 Under 40 Honoree

Louie Calvin – 38 Product Manager – Accounting & PayrollThomson Reuters Tax & AccountingDexter, MI What are the key challenges you see firms facing? I hear the greatest challenge facing firms is leading employees and clients though rapid technological change. Embracing new cloud-based and mobile technology is not easy and there is too much to...…

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September 8, 2014 

Danielle Supkis Cheek – 2014 40 Under 40 Honoree

Danielle Supkis Cheek, CPA, CFE, CVA – 30 President, D. Supkis Cheek, PLLCHouston, TX   What are the key areas of your firm that have seen the greatest change/challenge in workflow over the past few years? (Or, what are the key challenges you see firms facing?) I have been very fortunate to be a Native...…

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September 8, 2014 

Brian Tully – 2014 40 Under 40 Honoree

Brian Tully – 39 V.P. & Head, ONESOURCE Transfer PricingThomson ReutersNew York   What are the key areas of your firm that have seen the greatest change/challenge in workflow over the past few years? (Or, what are the key challenges you see firms facing?) In today’s iPhone world, software needs to be intuitive and solve...…

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September 8, 2014 

Jonyce J. Bullock – 2014 40 Under 40 Honoree

Jonyce J. Bullock, CPA, CGMA – 36 PartnerSquire & Company, PCOrem, UT   What are the key areas of your firm that have seen the greatest change/challenge in workflow over the past few years? (Or, what are the key challenges you see firms facing?) The challenges I have seen in workflow are not in finding...…

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September 8, 2014 

Shayna B. Chapman – 2014 40 Under 40 Honoree

Shayna B. Chapman, CPA.CITP, CGMA – 39 Owner MemberShaynaCo, LLCGallipolis, OH   What are the key areas of your firm that have seen the greatest change/challenge in workflow over the past few years? (Or, what are the key challenges you see firms facing?) The greatest change in workflow over the last few years has been...…

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September 8, 2014 

Dustin Wheeler – 2014 40 Under 40 Honoree

Dustin Wheeler, CPA – 35 ManagerHawkins, Cloward & SimisterOrem, UT   What are the key areas of your firm that have seen the greatest change/challenge in workflow over the past few years? (Or, what are the key challenges you see firms facing?) Hawkins Cloward & Simister adopted front-end scanning of tax documents and paperless tax preparation...…

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September 8, 2014 

Craig Walker – 2014 40 Under 40 Honoree

Craig Walker – 36 Chief Technology OfficerXeroNew York   What are the key challenges you see firms facing over the past few years? I see many accounting professionals and firms still spending a lot of time doing lower-value, non-billable work such as data entry, managing software version mismatches or filing paper documents. The cloud offers a...…