Accounting
Brian Tankersley
Brian Tankersley is a technology contributor for CPA Practice Advisor, and is a frequent speaker at national continuing education courses on auditing and technology, as well as a consultant, coach and instructor for K2 Enterprises.
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Accounting
The Technology Lab Podcast – Review of Spotlight Reporting - May 2021
Accounting
The Technology Lab Podcast – Review of Sage Intacct - April 2021
Accounting
Robotic Process Automation: An Introduction
RPA is not an entirely new technology – in fact, many concepts included in RPA are descendants of older technologies like optical character recognition (OCR) of scanned documents, zonal OCR, the “screen scraping” tools used for decades to extract data ...
Technology
Let’s All Go Phishing: Accounting Firm Security Awareness Training
E-mail based malware and phishing attacks are frighteningly simple to create. Last fall, an international CPA firm association commissioned me to create some materials and resources for their firms.
Accounting
Winners of 19th Annual K2 Quality Awards Announced
The K2 Quality Awards are in their nineteenth year and the are among the most well respected and longest standing awards in the Accounting industry. In announcing this year’s award winners, Randy Johnston, Shareholder and VP at K2 Enterprises was ...
Technology
Accounting Firm Workflow and Process Automation 2.0
In the future, we will move beyond simple data integrations between applications toward workflow automation tools and with data from many different mainstream systems consolidated in a business intelligence tool. My research shows that most mid-sized ...
Accounting
What’s In Your Briefcase?
This column will go through some of the gear I carry with me when working out of the office. As someone who spends over 100 days a year traveling, I don’t have the option of waiting until I get back to the office to deal with most things.
Technology
Process Improvement and Working With Clients Digitally
While most of our firms have transitioned away from paper-based records, many of us still struggle to digitize the business processes in our firms. As I write this, we are in the late stages of conducting the 6th Annual CPA Firm Operations and ...
Firm Management
How to Make the Most of Virtual Meetings
The internet has brought many changes to our office work environment, and one of the most significant areas where I see firms not ready to meet client expectations is being ready to participate in effective virtual meetings. Virtual meeting platforms ...
Accounting
Accounting Predictions for 2019
December has come again, and it’s time to predict the big stories for 2019. Here are the seven trends I think will have transformational impact on practitioners and their firms in the coming year:
Accounting
Analytics and Data Evaluation for Everyone
One of the more interesting areas for new offerings in accounting technology has been the emergence of toolsets to automate the analysis of data sets. Whether we’re learning about end user tools for accounting firms like InformationActive’s Active ...