I spent last Thursday and half of Friday in the first Journal of Information Systems Conference (JISC), co-sponsored by the AICPA and Caseware IDEA. This conference was the first that brought academic researchers from the American Accounting Association’s (AAA) Accounting Information Systems (AIS) section together with professionals from the AICPA’s Information Management and Technology Assurance … Continue reading
The CPA profession is admittedly a competitive one. We probably aren’t as cut-throat as the legal profession, but then again, we don’t have to do a lot of litigation so we aren’t trained to be as aggressive. So pseudo-friendly “coopetition” (cooperation and competition intertwined) is a bit of the norm as young accountants join the … Continue reading
I spent the last three days with 19 other thought leaders and four prominent vendors in the Public Accounting segment of the CPA profession. I say the Public Accounting segment because I think too often we forget that there are many CPAs who are no longer in public accounting, but instead working in business & … Continue reading