The Future of the Accounting Profession 🔎 | Kenji Kuramoto

<p>'The Future of The Accounting Profession' panel discussion was held as part of the AcuityCon conference for the Acuity Financial Experts team.</p> <p>The global expert panel included:</p> <ul> <li>Kenji Kuramoto Founder & CEO of Acuity Financial Experts Greater Atlanta Area USA</li> <li>Michael Ly Entrepreneur | Virtual CFO | Cloud Accounting Executive | Online Bookkeeping | Speaker | Coach | Advisor Burlington, Vermont USA</li> <li>Nayo Carter-Gray, EA MBA Making Accounting a Little Less Taxing for small business owners | Advanced Certified QuickBooks Online Pro-Advisor | App & Technology Enthusiast Baltimore, Maryland Area USA</li> <li>Rachel (Leaney) Fisch, CPB Product Evangelist, Accountant Channel at Sage Greater Toronto Area Metropolitan Area Canada!</li> <li>Will Farnell Accountancy Firm founder (Farnell Clarke) , Keynote Speaker, Author of The Digital Firm and Mentor to Accounting Firms UK!</li> </ul> <p>Some takeaways for me included:</p> <p>🧮Microsoft Word & Excel are the most popular small business tools</p> <p>🧮Compliance is not dead ☠️</p> <p>🧮AI is overhyped</p> <p>🧮Non-traditional firms will embrace diversity</p> <p>🧮Modern firms are not old style firms using Accounting Technology</p> <p>🧮We don't need to worry about QBLive</p> <p>🧮Paper checks ⁉️</p> <p>Thank-you Kenji Kuramoto for the opportunity. Thank you to the Acuity team who helped make this possible. Thank-you for listening to Cloud Stories. I hope you enjoyed the show. Can I encourage you to sign up to the Accounting Apps newsletter, by visiting http:// HeatherSmithAU. COM</p>