Donny Shimamoto Explains How ‘Agile’ Applies to CPA Firms

Examine change from three standpoints: financial, technology, and people.

Donny C Shimamoto, CPA CITP IntrapriseTechKnowlogies — Shimamoto

By Jody Padar
From Success to Significance: The Radical CPA Guide

Today we’re going to ask the agility expert. Donny C. Shimamoto, CPA, CITP, CGMA, is managing director of IntrapriseTechKnowlogies LLC.

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JP: Can you describe what your firm does?

DS: We help transform CPA firms in a couple of ways. One is to help them embrace the cloud in a reasonable manner. The second is to embrace new approaches to working. You could even maybe say that we help them become Radical firms.

Posted on December 31, 2017

Jody Padar

About the Author

Jody Padar, CPA, MST, is one of the profession’s foremost visionaries and a best-selling author for CPA Trendlines.

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Padar is the author of:

The Radical CPA

and

From Success to Significance: The Radical CPA Guide

vice president of strategy at Botkeeper, an upstart automated bookkeeping solution purpose-built for accounting firms.

She was also CEO and Principal of the New Vision CPA Group, a public accounting firm based in the Chicago area.

And as an author, lecturer, coach, consultant, and mentor, she advocates for progress and innovation in the profession, heralding a new way of thinking about the practice of accountancy and giving it a new purpose.

Having successfully transformed her own firm into a technologically advanced, paperless work environment, she is now dedicated to educating her fellow colleagues on how to make the same transition.

She is a regular contributor to a number of industry publications, including CPA Trendlines, where she offers practical tips and advice on running a next-generation firm.

Padar has been named by Accounting Today as “the Top 100 Most Influential to the Profession” for the last four years and manages her firm and discover new “best practices.”

Padar is married, has two teenage children, and swims competitively. Padar earned her BBA from Saint Mary’s College and MST from Northern Illinois University. Padar is also an adjunct professor at Oakton Community College and a contributing member of the Intuit Trainer Writer Network.

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