The Frontier

While much of our focus is on accounting technology specifically, the profession can be affected by technology from anywhere, and likely will in the future.

In this edition of the Frontier, K2's Brian Tankersley warns that a Silicon Valley-style data sharing model may come to accounting.

The number of products said to be using AI has grown, but in this installment of The Frontier, some experts say its capabilities may be oversold.

In this edition of the Frontier, Gayle Heskiel, COO of Net at Work, talks about the rise of outcome-based pricing and the changes required to get there.

As accountants collect greater and greater amounts of information, the issue becomes how to manage it.

In this installment of the Frontier, CPA.com's Kacee Johnson talks about a polarization within the industry over technology.

While a growing number of tasks are automated, accounting leaders say there's no reason to fear an implosion in the profession's headcount.

Grant Thornton's chief transformation officer says there doesn't need to be such a hard dichotomy between accounting and technology skills.

In this first installment of The Frontier's second series, experts explore why, despite automation freeing the profession from the routine drudge work, accountants seem to have less bandwidth than ever.

In this installment of The Frontier, Wesley Hartman says RPA should be used to bridge gaps between myriad solutions.

While technology has advanced, many of the mindsets surrounding it have not, which stymies its transformative potential for the accounting profession.

In this installment of the Frontier, Jim Bourke shares his excitement about new technology — and his concerns that some solutions are oversold.

Technology that was once the exclusive province of large firms has increasingly been filtering down into smaller practices as the economics change and software improves.

In this installment of “The Frontier,” Randy Johnston expresses concerns about the quality of coding in accounting technology.

In the first installment of our series, “The Frontier,” thought leaders predict that the age of humans inputting and processing data will soon come to a close.

Jennifer Wilson, the leader of Convergence Coaching, says that technological advance combined with changing client demand will lead the remote audit to become the norm.

Whether to give accountants tech skills or technology people accounting education remains a live question among thought leaders.

In this latest installment of “The Frontier,” RKL’s chief cloud officer says there is now so much personal data online that someone could assume your identity and lock you out of it.

Even the smallest of firms will soon be fully paperless, say accounting thought leaders.

In the first installment of our new series, “The Frontier,” the visionary and strategist of Boomer Consulting says that technological advances mean collaboration on a global scale will soon be common.

In this installment of the Frontier, experts lament the lack of attention paid to the client experience amid all this technological progress.

Geni Whitehouse, who leads the Impactful Advisor, points to the progress of tax automation and business intelligence and says the time crunch will soon end.

In this installment of The Frontier, experts lament the persistence of email, which is seen as out of step with modern business needs despite its ubiquity.

In this installment of The Frontier, Roman Kepczyk warns that enthusiasm for artificial intelligence must be tempered with caution.

While they hold much potential to change accounting, thought leaders say the technology is still immature.

In this last edition of the Frontier, Donna Shimamoto talks about how the profession needs to avoid getting distracted by the next big thing.

In this bonus installment of the Frontier, thought leaders worry that a culture of technology overspecialization may erode efficiency.

In this bonus Frontier, Joe Woodard says that AI-powered solutions are impressive but the profession needs more from its intelligent machines.