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From enabling online ordering to facilitating remote work to overcoming labor shortages, technology can streamline accounting processes, improve the customer experience, and help scale businesses—even amidst a challenging backdrop. This is particularly true for accountants who may have been slow to embrace advances in technology but have now come to realize the enormous benefits of technology created specifically for accountants and accounting firms. Learn more.

Over the past decade, technology has driven a profound shift in the way accountants work. From tax workflow automation and tax strategy to data analytics, CPAs who embrace accounting technology trends are well-positioned to thrive long term. Learn more.

After a jarring article about accountant burnout was published in Dec. 2022 by the Wall Street Journal, it seems to be all anyone can talk about. And the talk is not always positive. We hope to change that conversation.

This annual ranking of the leading national and local firms also includes data analysis, as well as their chief executives' take on the major issues facing their firms, and their strategies for success for 2023 and beyond.

There is a remarkably wide range of definitions of CAS, which stems from the fact that each firm's offering differs somewhat from every other firm's. Knowing that, how can firms make sure that they're creating a practice that best fits their strengths and their clients?

Most organizations start their compliance journey by focusing on the lease accounting functionality they need to adopt the standards, but they don't always consider how they will manage long-term growth. Many started by tracking their equipment and real estate leases manually, but quickly realized they needed a platform that would support their growth.

For tax, audit, accounting and advisory firm Hancock Askew, the rapid rise in technology solutions being used by clients and the amount of client data being created came with its share of challenges. It needed a best-of-breed tech stack for all its clients to drive consistency and scalability. Learn More

Many firms' first foray into CAS takes the form of online bookkeeping, but there's enormous room beyond that to evolve into much more valuable — and profitable — services.

With the ability to automate every aspect of the tax process today, accounting firms should be taking a holistic approach to automation. As firms start to automate, they are learning where the inefficiencies are and which inefficacies are costing them the most time and money

Matt Waters, CPA, and Director of Lease Accounting at CoStar Real Estate Manager discusses 10 ways that lease accountants are removing manual tasks. He fills you in on all the ways automation is modernizing lease accounting.