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Finance Digital Transformation for Accounting Firms

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Accounting firms provide financial management services to businesses, including advisory services, bookkeeping, tax preparation, and auditing. Finance transformation builds on larger digital trends inside businesses. For many accounting firms, there remains the opportunity to improve speed, efficiency, and quality.

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How Accounting Firms Are Winning the Automation Game

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For accounting firms, automation gathers scattered information and turns it into valuable insights. It increases productivity and empowers firms to better advise their clients by putting the right data into the right hands at the right time. A new report from BILL shows how accounting firms are winning at automation.

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Are accounting firms keeping remote work positions?

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Many of today’s accounting professionals have a new perspective on when and how they want to work. Are firms heeding the call? The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic forced countless businesses, including accounting firms, to go remote essentially overnight due to mandated shutdowns and stay-at-home orders.

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The CPA Shortage Compels Accounting Firms to Embrace Digital Transformation

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Despite high demand for CPAs, accounting firms struggle to hire accountants. In 2021, there was a 17 percent drop in employed accountants and auditors from a 2019 peak, according to a Bloomberg Tax analysis. By Cameron White. Technology also gives staff real-time access to their data, from anywhere at any time.

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Lessons From the Tech World that Apply to Accounting Firms

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One example of this from the accounting profession: Matthew May, one of the co-founders of Acuity, a national accounting firm, recently stated during a panel discussion at an accounting conference that his firm had learned a lot of the processes for lead generation and prospect data mining from a software company located near his firm.

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Canopy Secures $35 Million in Funding to Enhance AI-Powered Practice Management for Accounting Firms

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Canopy, a firm-wide operating system that helps accounting firms, has raised $35 million in an oversubscribed round of venture funding. The $35 million investment will be channeled towards doubling down on Canopy’s vision for leveraging AI to make firms exponentially more efficient. That company is Canopy.

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Why accounting firms should become business advisors

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As accounting firms look to differentiate themselves from the competition, one trend is leading the way: business advisory. From advising on mergers and acquisitions to specializing in accounting and advisory in your clients’ specific industry, there are many ways to take advantage of this unique opportunity.