maybe that’s too much to ask.
but anne stanton makes the point that cpas should put aside their biases, their old habits, misguided beliefs, and, yes, she says, their egos, to get on track with new technologies like vista.
what’s at stake? oh, just the future of the profession.
“small firms are missing out on technologies enablement, because they are not supported by all their advisors in using the proper selection and implementation of technology best practices. sure you can spend money on technology toys… but you can also waste a lot of time using products selected from a very limited list. a great example? the number of people who use excel to do everything and as such instead of using the right tool (already designed to solve the business problem), end users customize/hack/creatively create solutions, spending hours using excel to do something that perhaps a business intelligence tool can do in seconds, or an accounting software product can do effortlessly.” read the rest here…