Randy Johnston has been an entrepreneur, technologist, and teacher for most of his career. He has helped start and run many businesses, and founded Network Management Group, Inc. and owns half of K2 Enterprises. He has written for accounting and technology publications for four decades, and for CPA Practice Advisor since 2000.
February 26, 2019
2637 characters It is gratifying to see the natural evolution of software over time, as the more successful software vendors respond to user feedback and incorporate features and functionality that reflect the demands of actual users. Great software is becoming more powerful all the time, and new development tools and database capabilities allow this evolution...…
February 13, 2019
The culture of most CPA firms supports excellent client service. While we can’t do everything perfectly, partners and team members routinely provide services that have value to the client. Determining your client needs is not something you can read ...
December 10, 2018
We’ve been through a year together learning about Emerging Technologies. While there will always be new technology, we are not likely to go through a period of time again anytime soon where the algorithms are changing so rapidly and the new ...
November 13, 2018
You are likely to have seen all the information you need on the new iPhone, Google Pixel 3, Surface Pro 6, and Office 2019 as well as the outcomes of the CCH, Thomson and Intuit conferences, although if the reviews are not factual enough for me ...
October 15, 2018
Engagement with clients and leveraging your brand is done easier and made stronger with Bots. This emerging technology has promise today and in the future. While applying some Bot technology may be more technically difficult for you to apply without ...
September 10, 2018
Cryptocurrency has made a lot of millionaires and multi-millionaires in the last three years. That said, remember cryptocurrencies are highly speculative, and you may want to think of this as a form of gambling. While I know many CPAs who love ...
August 23, 2018
Blockchain seems to be everywhere in the press and conferences related to accounting. There is clear merit to this coverage and blockchain is a technology with long-term importance. Applications have only been developed in a few pilot projects ...
June 15, 2018
If Cognitive Computing drives much of the emerging technology computer science research, most of the data science research is focused on Big Data. Big Data can be analyzed to produce actionable business information. This data analysis need may explain ...
May 22, 2018
We see a number of products that are running crude AI today and vendors that are pretty far along in their use of AI. Getting products that apply to small and medium businesses are more of a challenge, but we see efforts at Intuit, Xero, BQE Core, ...
May 22, 2018
One of the hot areas of emerging technology is Artificial Intelligence or AI. You know a topic is hot when products use the terminology in their name or in their marketing materials. We’ve see this done with “ease of use”, Cloud Computing, and Blockchain.
April 16, 2018
Machine Learning is still in its infancy and is making progress rapidly. Almost every provider to the profession is coding algorithms to learn about transactions. Every innovative company has a Machine Learning project to help learn and make very ...
March 19, 2018
Emerging technologies have always changed the practice of accounting. Further, your clients’ businesses also change based on their choices to use technology. Emerging technology is no long “emerging” when it becomes mainstream.
