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How Accounting Firms Can Choose the Right Solutions for Automation Success

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By Mike Fouts The accounting profession is at a crucial moment in which there’s massive potential to enhance productivity, elevate client experiences, and prevent burnout. As financial first responders, accountants often find themselves under immense pressure that is only amplified by the busy tax season.

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Tech news: FloQast automates with AI

Accounting Today

Plus, Settle offers three-way matching for purchase orders; Modern Treasury introduces Professional Services offering; and other accounting tech news.

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Automating your way to success: How automation can help relieve accounting staff shortages

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Jump to: Reflect on your current tax workflow Use automation to boost staff engagement and retention Unlock growth opportunities With staffing shortages of epic proportions, the accounting industry is facing a crossroads. From there, look for opportunities to innovate and automate.

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The Technology Lab Podcast – Accounting Automation with Guest Jason Richelson of Bookkeep – August 2023

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Technologists Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley, CPA, discuss accounting automation tech with the co-founder of Bookkeep , Jason Richelson. Use the podcast player below to listen.

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No, Robots Are Not Taking Over Your Job: A Discussion on Balancing People and Tech in Automation

Speaker: Michael Ly, CEO of Reconciled, and Chris Elmore, UNCC Professor and Chief Evangelist of AvidXchange

The common fear about automation today is the belief it will displace millions of jobs. While it could make certain functions obsolete, a more optimistic view is that automation enables people to re-center their workday on more essential, purposeful functions. But technology is only as good as the people it serves.

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How Technology Will Optimize – Not Replace – The Role of Accountants

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The adoption of a new product or technology tends to follow a familiar cycle. Before we reach the final stage where the technology is widely adopted, we pass through a period of uncertainty, where we wonder if this technology will be too helpful — to the point of being a threat to job security. By Irana Wasti.

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96% of Accountants Think Automation is Essential for Profession

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A new study on how accounting professionals feel about their profession, job satisfaction, and automation has found that, while they are overwhelmingly positive about the profession, there is a clear need for more automation. 88% emphasize the importance of AI and machine learning in shaping the industry’s future.

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Crafting Your Accounting Innovation Strategy

Speaker: Donny C. Shimamoto, CPA.CITP, CGMA

Tired of everyone telling you that you need to modernize your accounting operations, but not telling you how to actually do it? While automation technologies come with some cost, they greatly reduce manual labor and risk of error when integrated well.

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Register Now: Sneak Peek Into Close Automation SkyStem Web Demo

Technology is rapidly changing the way accountants perform and manage month-end activities. In under four weeks, your team can start reaping the benefits of month-end close automation by vastly reducing spreadsheets, cut down on reconciliation work, speed up the month-end close, and better manage your remote team.

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Putting the ‘Tech’ in Spend Management Techniques

Speaker: Wayne Spivak, President and CFO of SBA * Consulting Ltd., Industry Writer, Public Speaker

With the advancement of technology, the implementation of spend management best practices and concrete GAP analyses is more streamlined and accessible than ever before. If you’re lost in the world of spend management needs and your GAP analysis is lacking perspective on the future state of your business performance, listen up!