“Professional staff without higher-level skills will be out of the business.”
By Frank Stitely
The Relentless CPA
If you believe accounting industry pundits, artificial intelligence and blockchain will decimate accounting firms the way an asteroid killed off the dinosaurs. But paleontologists don’t think dinosaurs really went extinct. They survived as today’s birds. In the next 10 years, or sooner, accounting and tax firms will evolve from offices full of employees dutifully typing data into workstations to organizers of terabytes of accounting data for our clients.
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The pundits are wrong about our extinction. Effective project management will prepare your firm to thrive in the 21st century. I’ll take you there in a bit of a roundabout way via the coming of blockchain to the IRS.
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