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u.s. combat medics look to a.i. goggles

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augmented reality goggles could someday be the difference between life and death on the battlefield. could the technology move to the mainstream with civilian paramedics?

by rick richardson
technology this week

the combat medic is the most important factor in surviving a battlefield injury. the medic is first on the scene and can administer help within the golden hour or even golden ten minutes. quick, effective medical procedures can be the difference between life and death.

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the defense advanced research projects agency (darpa) has selected raytheon bbn to lead a team to develop an augmented reality device that will provide the combat medic with a virtual assistant. the system will use a set of a.r. goggles to provide visual information on 50 different medical procedures.

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ai, ocr, nlp & cpas: oh my!

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innovation insights: how trullion is trying to revolutionize rev. rec. and lease accounting.

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innovation insights
with donny shimamoto
center for accounting transformation

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center for accounting transformation

accounting, along with legal, pioneered technology that continues to grow and allows automation of mundane tasks. isaac heller, the co-founder and ceo of trullion, discusses with donny shimamoto how ai uses optical character recognition (ocr) and natural language procession (nlp) to read documents like pdfs and excel, and extracts relevant data, like lease dates, into databases, where they can be used for computations or searching.

more on trullion: trullion lands $15 million in series a | trullion: new a.i. startup targets rev rec, lease accounting

more on lease accounting: lease accounting hits hard | lease accounting is about to get very real

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heller and shimamoto discuss the origins of professional technology, sharing how accounting was the perfect breeding ground for database software. “when you think of oracle and sap and intuit going way back, these were really the pioneers of database software,” heller says. “it’s as simple as that, you know, the general ledger and the accounts payable and accounts receivable framework fits really, really well in a software model. so, there was kind of this jump out of the gate where we were able to do so much in accounting.”

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why ai is not the enemy

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clients still need context.

by penny breslin
it’s not just the numbers

in 1994, in a small hotel meeting room in colorado springs, 50 accounting firms were up in arms when the presenter mentioned quickbooks. they shouted angry comments: “quickbooks is destroying my business.” “they want to take my clients.” “they are giving people a false sense of security with their commercials that say, ‘if you can write a check, you can do quickbooks.’”

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the presenter was nervous and asked me what he was to do. i said i use quickbooks for your company, and i have no idea what i am doing, and i could use an accountant to teach me.

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the big battles ahead for corporate finance

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advisory board members say it’s happening “whether a cfo chooses to do it or not.”

by the center for accounting transformation
improvetheworld.net

according to a group of corporate finance professionals, one of the most significant issues facing corporate finance teams is refocusing team members toward higher-value work such as interpreting data and advising on issues and solutions rather than allowing them to continue performing rote, manual tasks.

related:  top issues for 2022: talent, time, and transformation

learn more about the center’s audit advisory board or view the center’s transformation courses.

“the biggest risk that is clear to me is to continue the antiquated and outdated people strategies, performance, process, understanding, lagging platform adoption, and not understanding the deep relationships that we need to build instead of keeping the status quo,” offered chris ortega, ceo of fresh fp&a. “to me, that is 100% the biggest risk that we now face in the accounting and finance  space.”

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the fintech flood: accounting will never be the same

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venture capital and private equity are pouring billions into financial technology start-ups. and this business will never be the same.

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a tsunami of venture capital and private equity is flooding into new tech startups, enough to swamp the entire tax, accounting, bookkeeping, and payroll sector, according to a new study by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间.

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here, 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 founder, publisher, and editor rick telberg delivers the keynote at the new york finance & accounting show, explaining what it means for the future of the profession, including:

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new insights on emerging technologies and people issues

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fresh research from the hawaii accounting research conference.

by donny c. shimamoto, cpa, citp, cgma

this year’s hawaii accounting research conference provided some insights into the use of emerging technologies in audit and internal control, as well as on people issues like creativity and performance incentives. held every year in january at the university of hawaii at manoa, this conference draws accounting researchers from around the world to share their research findings with a broader academic audience (physical and virtual).

i started attending this conference in 2021 and gained some interesting insights into research being conducted that could shape some of what we do as accounting professionals. this year, i also helped moderate a practitioner panel featuring two past aicpa chairs, tracey golden and kimberly ellison-taylor, and a fellow cpa.citp and tax expert lauren kovar, to share with attendees how they could make their research more relevant to practice.

if you’d like to see the panel discussion, you can watch the recording:

i was only able to attend one day of the conference, but from just the one day, i got some good takeaways from several of the sessions. i’ve outlined these sessions and my key takeaways below. you can also click on any of the links to read the full paper that shares the research study and findings. read more →

when tax collectors go digital

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…where will you hide?

collecting taxes upfront: in mexico, tax returns, accounting records, and other tax disclosures must be filed in standard electronic format, driving down the cost of tax collection by 57 percent between 2006 and 2018. meanwhile, revenue generated by audits rose an astonishing 117 percent between 2015 and 2020. (source: better than cash alliance, the u.n., via avalara)

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accounting professionals may be focused for now on tax season 2022. but right around the corner, a revolution in tax is coming, if the united states can get out of its own way.

ready or not, here it comes: digitized sales tax compliance. the compliance might happen immediately after a transaction or right in the middle of it with a tax agency in between the buyer and the seller.

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it isn’t happening in the u.s. yet, but at least three states are thinking about it, and in 83 other countries, it’s already a thing. in california, florida, and massachusetts, it may soon be a thing. the federal reserve and the business payments coalition have already launched a pilot program to standardize electronic invoicing systems.

digitized tax compliance is far more than the mere e-filing of invoices and tax returns. it’s the movement of paper compliance activities to the cloud, where tax authorities can not only see transactions but, in some countries, actually, get involved in them.

the potential opportunities for accountants, auditors, and tax practitioners are as yet unknown, but where there is change, there is opportunity.

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ready for tech transformation?

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bar chartmany say yes, but the facts say no.

by donny c. shimamoto

most accountants may feel as though they’re keeping up with the rapid changes in technology, but many may be fooling themselves.

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a survey of more than 600 cpas just confirms the dichotomy i’ve seen many times. people say they are ready. but upon closer investigation, they haven’t taken the actions to ensure adoption of the new technologies and the business practices needed for transformation.

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top 20 trends for the year ahead

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you need to know your options.

by joe tarasco
accountants advisory group, llc

during these unprecedented times, it is difficult to predict the future.

thus, the leaders of today’s cpa firms should focus on planning for various options based upon as many possible scenarios as possible.

this type of planning explores plausible potential business models and implementation processes for impending unknowns.

as you develop your strategic plans for 2022 and beyond, consider the following predictions and trends.

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your firm’s cas team: who and how many

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you may need to boost their human skillsets.

by hitendra patil
accountaneur: the entrepreneurial accountant

“we do not have the staffing for client accounting services.”

non-cas firms cite this as the topmost reason for not being able to offer cas. nothing could be further from the truth.

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experience of firms that offer cas, including that of small firms with fewer than five staff members, proves beyond doubt that you do not need more staff to start offering cas. even solo practitioners provide cas. the only thing you need to begin your cas journey is to be ruthless, relentless and fearless to leverage newer and cloud technologies. automation, integration and even artificial intelligence make it easier, faster and cheaper to perform some repetitive, time-consuming work of accounting firms.
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why advisory opportunities emerge from core cas offerings

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three keywords to guide you.

by hitendra patil
client accounting services: the definitive success guide

“we want to offer outsourced cfo and advisory services.”

it has become an increasingly more common intent of accounting firms of all sizes. technology automation, artificial intelligence and more innovative solutions seem to make it even more logical for accountants to feel that the future is more about advisory services than ever before.

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if you have similar intentions and goals, please answer this question:

“what type of advice do you give to your clients, periodically and regularly?”

or turn it around and answer this question:

“what type of advice do your clients seek from you and when?”

if you could think of 5-10 different actionable insights you regularly deliver to your clients, congratulations! but if not, do not worry. it is not difficult to lay a strong foundation for your advisory services. read more →

a high-net-worth practice in four steps

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businesswoman holding giant dollar symbolyou have the knowledge. it’s time to apply it.

by anthony glomski and russ alan prince
your $5-million high-net-worth practice

the world has changed in ways we can see and some that we do not yet understand. some of these changes have been in process before the covid-19 crisis, such as greater competition, the use of artificial intelligence, and the immense increase in private wealth.

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other changes, such as the way people are and will likely continue to interact, are a function of the crisis. for example, video calls and conferences are going to become a bigger part of the way professionals interact with clients and each other.
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how today’s staffing crisis can forecast your future

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you can read the tea leaves in who’s getting hired today because they’re the generation that will re-define the tax and accounting firms.

by steven e. sacks
the new fundamentals

the accounting profession is at a crossroads: increasing pressure on keeping up with technology to serve more varied and complex clients, while a quick peek at the landscape indicates the ongoing struggle to attract and retain talent.

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but what is meant by this, actually?

what will be the type of necessary talent? will it be a mixture of technical gaap and gaas know-how and technology-driven knowledge like artificial intelligence? or will the necessary technical expertise be superseded by a deep understanding of blockchain technology and data analytics? if that, then how will firms draw the right people to deliver the value-added services that leverage technology?

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