Too many tech ‘solutions’ don’t solve the real ‘problems.’
By Gail Perry
The Accounting Firm Operations and Technology Survey
As a person who still prefers books to e-books, who chooses a landline over her cell phone, who cherishes her collection of vinyl albums and who enjoys writing letters in longhand (BTW: I’m writing my first draft of this article in longhand), and (full confession), as a CPA who maintains a small tax practice of her own and who manages her books in Excel (in spite of the fact that I know many accounting software programs inside out and have written myriad books about financial software), I can completely relate to the results of the Accounting Firm Operations and Technology Survey without a trace of the surprise and disappointment expressed by my journalistic colleagues who shared their points of view.
Accountants aren’t clueless about technology and they’re not stupid when it comes to making decisions about how to operate their business. What they are is busy.
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