With almost 800 CPAs converging on the Bellagio in Las Vegas for the co-located 2010 Practitioners Symposium and Tech+ conferences, technology issues are taking center stage.
Tech+ chairman Peyton Burch says CPAs are taking a serious look at software as a service, Apple iPads, IPhones and MacBooks, and technology as a “competitive differentiator.”
Technology is overshadowing staffing as the central practice management issue this year at the AICPA Practitioners Symposium in Las Vegas, according to conference chairman Mike Shost.
The conferences run through Wednesday.
One Response to “Twin AICPA Confabs Buzzing with Tech Talk”
david bergstein cpa citp
Great Information I have been on the road the last three weeks listening to various consultants talking about Technology and Practice Management issues and the themes are all the same.
Everyone is taking a “serious look at software as a service, Apple iPads, IPhones and MacBooks, and technology as a “competitive differentiator.” Software as a Sevice and the ease of getting to a firm’s application in one spot seems to be the most prevelant topic. Everyone talks about the IPAD and a number of partners are buying them for themselves for email and to stay cool but netbooks and PC’s are still the choice when it comes to arming the staff becuase of pricing. In addition more and more firms are going with laptops as the only machine when the staff works out of the office for some part of the week.