Participant Polls from Tom Hood's sessions at the Wolters Kluwer CCH Users Conference in Las Vegas, October, 2015
Almost 200 participants attending Tom's sessions responded to a series of polls using conferences.io. The sessions were: How to Get Ready for the Fast Future and Top Trends in the CPA Profession - The Shift Change. The questions asked were generations in the audience, top challenges, top skills needed to be successful, and the top challenges facing accounting firms.
The end of the report contains two more questions - What is hard about being an accounting / finance professional?
And a brainstorm of hard trends and opportunities from our work with futurist and best-selling author, Daniel Burrus and the Anticpatory Organization: Accounting and Finance Edition www.blionline.org/ao
10. Tom Hood, CPA, CITP, CGMA
CPA Practice Adviser Accounting Hall of Fame
Named the Second Most Influential in Accounting by
Accounting Today Magazine 2015
Top 150 Influencer by Linked-In
Top 25 Influencers in Learning & HR by HR Examiner
Top 25 Public Accounting Thought Leaders by CPA
Practice Adviser
Working on Learning Management with AICPA/CPA2Biz,
Cloud Curriculum, Performance Management /XBRL,
Leadership & Generations
CEO
Maryland Association of CPAs
(MACPA) www.macpa.org
Business Learning Institute
(BLI) www.blionline.org
http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomhood/
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13.
Hard Trends & Opportunities
Hard Trend Opportunity
Partners retiring Opportunities to move up current staff
Succession planning Advancement opportunity
Increasing Technology Use technology appropriately make capacity for more
Partners mandatory retirement Fast track high potentials
Millennials are not looking to work as hard as their predecessors Develop new staff
Partners retiring Advancement opportunities
Tax return completion by computers Revolutionize the service offering to the client more value
Automation of tax preparation on cloud Proactive to clients all aspects leverage technology
Partner retirement Change employee track career plans
Partner retirement loss of knowledge Work across firm to leverage wisdom of boomers and skills
of other generation (X & Y)
Shortage of Managers Gen Xers Fast track high potentials & upskill
* Note: Nanolearning is in the latest exposure draft for CPE Standards from the AICPA/NASBA and
has been adopted in two states, Maryland and Ohio
The Burrus/BLI Anticipatory Organization: Accounting and Finance Edition (www.blionline.org/ao) is
structured learning in three minute single concept videos with rapid application exercises developed
specifically for the accounting / finance profession together it is in a five hour CPE module to qualify in
states without nanoleanring.