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.
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.
February 13, 2018
Over the last two to three years we have watched pundits and consultants promote ideas around emerging technologies. Some of the claims are ludicrous, loony, and ill-informed. Others are trying to position, parlay and learn. You’ve seen this column ...
December 18, 2017
As you wrap up another successful year, you may be reflecting on the best techniques and tools you can use to manage your firm. While people and their skills are your most important asset, you can help your team by providing the right technology tools. It
November 16, 2017
New technology tools are frequently showcased first at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas every January. While many innovative products have been initially introduced during CES, there have been a number of useful hardware and software ...
October 17, 2017
The concept of cloud computing that we were discussing 20 years ago around products like QuickBooks Online, Intacct and NetSuite, followed shortly thereafter by Accounting Power, SAP Business by Design, Acumatica, Financial Force, Zoho, Sage One, ...
September 18, 2017
With so much focus on Cloud and Mobile, can you imagine using your technology with no hardware? Hardware has become so cheap, reliable and generally good, many of us take this part of our technology experience for granted. It has been ten years since ...
August 21, 2017
Over the past years, we have discussed paperless techniques, 1040 workpaper products, optimizations of processes, streamlining workflows, the use of portals, encrypting email, as well as other tools and techniques to make our work easier, faster and ...
