NEW SURVEY RESULTS: CPA Tech Savvy

Talk the talk, and walk the walk?

Here are the early results for the CPA Tech Savvy survey:

• Our subscribers are generally on the leading edge of adopting new technologies, with the best software and equipment available.
• But they admit that they lag in follow-up training and long-term planning.
• Improving current systems is tops on their strategic wish lists, with “going paperless” and “improved efficiency” leading the agenda.
• And they’re looking to upgrade their critical hardware and apps: laptops, notebooks, printers and tax and accounting software.

The study remains open. Join the survey; get the results.

Drumroll, please… The stats…

What’s on your wish list?

Here’s one of our favorite comments so far:

If I could change anything about my company’s technology setup it would be management’s recognition of the value dual monitors, laptops, and faster reponse times with systems. We are consistently told by management we are in “high performance positions”; however, there is nothing high performance about the equipment in our offices. (Most of us have better computer setups in our own homes than we do on our office desk). Since many senior managers are not hands-on when it comes to computers they don’t recognize the time and money loss that goes with less than “high performance” computers and systems.

Here’s another:

I would like to see our firm develop an ongoing strategic plan, with the commitment to continual maintenance and replacements. We tend to love the technology and are fine with making initial financial investments, but we need to realize that technology requires attention beyond that.

And:

Paperflow from clients to be more paperless, my own company’s ftp portal.

Of course, some people are never satisfied:

We have two monitors for everyone now. Let’s make it three a piece.

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Posted on July 16, 2008