Firm Management July 16, 2025
Experiences 2025 – Strategic Tech Stack
Revisit your strategy and tactics. Now is not the time to look for SALY (Same as Last Year). Consider innovations that will benefit your team, your clients, and your partners.
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.
Firm Management July 16, 2025
Revisit your strategy and tactics. Now is not the time to look for SALY (Same as Last Year). Consider innovations that will benefit your team, your clients, and your partners.
Firm Management April 17, 2025
Agentic AI is poised to significantly impact Public Accounting. Firms must adopt the right tools, governance strategies, and implementation approaches to successfully integrate Agentic AI into public accounting.
Accounting March 18, 2025
Agentic AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that operate autonomously and can perceive, reason, plan, and take action to pursue goals.
Firm Management February 11, 2025
For now, Agentic AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that operate autonomously and can perceive, reason, plan, and take action in pursuit of goals. These AI agents can interact dynamically with their environment, adapt to changes, and sometimes make decisions without direct human intervention.
Accounting January 10, 2025
This CES was more about "experiences," and we were actively separating reality from hype. Many columns I've read on the CES event don't represent the reality I understood by attending.
Accounting November 26, 2024
Brian Tankersley, CPA, and Randy Johnston review HubSync, an all-in-one, modern client platform which automates the tax return and other key processes and provides a single gateway to drive “Best-in-Class” collaboration between professionals and their clients.
CAS November 11, 2024
The outlook couldn't be brighter with new opportunities, technologies, challenges, and clients looking to take advantage of your service offerings.
Technology October 15, 2024
With a multitude of storm-related extension opportunities, maybe tax season isn’t quite over after all. However, for most of you, the flurry of activity has passed. It's time to turn to the projects needed to prepare for the new year.
Accounting September 3, 2024
What tools are working, and which ones are not? Prioritize replacements. For example, I have never seen as much appetite for replacing practice management tools as this year.
Accounting August 1, 2024
Hosts Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley, CPA, take a look at SuiteFiles, a digital workspace for accounting firms built to unlock new revenue streams, improve client experiences, and reduce overheads.
Accounting July 3, 2024
Hosts Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley, CPA, discuss the invitation-only Accounting Thought Leader Think Tank Symposium, which gathered dozens of the most influential accounting technologists, practitioners, advisors, and policy makers in the profession. The event was held just prior to the 2024 AICPA Engage Conference.
Accounting June 20, 2024
Now that we have time to vet the products for quality, usability, and company vision, we will indeed have some attractive strategic and tactical options for you as the year progresses.