Tech: Tipping Point? What Tipping Point?

Tax software vendors need to step up for cloud solutions.

By Bob Scott
The Accounting Firm Operations and Technology Survey

In much of the business world, a substantial part of the market has passed the tipping point in terms of cloud-based software. Even if they don’t own business applications that work via the Internet, they are considering them. That is not the case with accounting firms.

It is pretty much the same story as last year. A majority of respondents do not use workflow applications, tablets of any size or have a replacement cycle for technology.

Posted on September 8, 2015

Bob Scott

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Robert "Bob" Scott is executive editor at Bob Scott's Insights, email newsletters for published since 2005 by The Progressive Accountant, with a reputation for biting wit and prescient forecasts.

He is the dean of tax and accounting journalism in the, with a track record extending back more than 30 years, including service at Accounting Technology and Accounting Today magazine. As the creator of The Var 100, in addition to several other definitive rankings of the profession's leading companies, his views are essential reading for serious technology professionals.

Bob Scott has been informing and entertaining the mid-market financial software community with his investigative analysis and biting commentary. And he has been covering this market through print publications for 18 years, first as technology editor of Accounting Today and then as the Editor of Accounting Technology from 1997 through 2009. He has covered the traditional tax and accounting profession during the same time and continues to address that as executive editor of the Progressive Accountant.

Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals.

He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County, N.J., prior to that.

A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism. Bob is a native of Madison, Ind, where he maintains the family farmstead, active in his local church in his current hometown of Hiawatha, N.J., and an accomplished opera singer whose Christmas performances are a local tradition.

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