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SURVEY RESULTS: How Top Tech Vendors Are Failing CPAs in the Cloud

Failed Stamp Showing Reject And FailureDon’t blame accountants.

By Bob Scott
The Accounting Firm Operations and Technology Survey

The major question about accounting professionals and the cloud is not whether they are moving to web-based applications in greater numbers. The real question is what is necessary to make this as complete as it has been in other areas of the business market and with consumers.

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The clear signs are there – the greater acceptance of portals although from a security perspective, although a troubling
number of practitioners still rely on email for transmitting tax documents.
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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.

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