Tax Season 2015 Marks Watershed in CPA Firm Digitalization

Roman Kepczyk , author of Quantum of Paperless at https://cpatrendlines.com/shop/qop/
Roman Kepczyk , author of Quantum of Paperless

Tax Season 2015 May Signal a Landmark Change in Workflow Automation.

By CPA Trendlines Research

This year’s busy season could mark a turning point in the tax and accounting industry’s techno-history, with mainstream firms flooding into digital processes like optical character recognition, PDF bookmarking, and collaboration tools.

Results from this year’s Paperless Benchmarking survey, conducted for the Association for Accounting Administration by CPA Trendlines contributor Roman Kepczyk, author of Quantum of Paperless: The Partners Guide to Accounting Firm Optimization, found a generally upward trend in the use of technology to avoid the carving of audit and tax prep data into stone or printing it out on paper. The survey compared responses in 2013 to foreseen usage in the busy season of 2015.

But which trends are trending the fastest? Where are the rockets of digitalization?