The AICPA’s Top 10 Technologies: What Are They and Why Are They Important?

The AICPA’s Top 10 Technologies: What Are They and Why Are They Important?

Cutting-edge technology is important to your clients and to your practice, which is why the American Institute of CPAs annually compiles its Top 10 Technologies list.

On Sept. 14, the NYSSCPA’s Technology Assurance Committee will host a continuing professional education (CPE) morning presentation that will cover the top 10 list. The general objective of the session is twofold: introduce new technologies for 2004 and discuss the possible effects on the businesses that use them. Although technical in nature, discussion will include auditing and consulting issues that derive from these latest technologies.

A regularly scheduled meeting of the Technology Assurance Committee will follow the CPE session.

Date: Tuesday, Sept. 14
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.: registration, networking; 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.: CPE session
Presenter: Anne Stanton, president, The Norwich Group
Location: NYSSCPA headquarters, 530 Fifth Ave. (between 44th and 45th streets), fifth floor, New York City

About the Presenter

Anne Stanton is president of The Norwich Group, a company that caters to the growing business development, practice management and technology needs of businesses in the accounting, consulting and technology industry sectors around the nation. She has spent more than 15 years consulting, analyzing and helping accounting, technology and businesses of all sizes use their available technology resources efficiently and effectively. Stanton holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois in Springfield, and is completing her MBA/ACC.

Stanton is a member of the AICPA’s Top 10 Technologies Task Force and a member of the Institute’s InfoTech newsletter editorial board. In addition to being a presenter at the AICPA’s 2004 IT conference, she contributes regularly to The CPA Technology Advisor, CPA Magazine and the Partner Advantage Advisor newsletter, as well as to many other industry journals. Stanton also is the editor of the Information Technology Alliance Connections Newsletter.

Additional Information

This Foundation for Accounting Education (FAE) CPE morning presentation is free to NYSSCPA members and $15.00 for nonmembers to qualify for one hour of CPE credit.

At the session you will get the chance to network with the profession’s and the industry’s IT leaders.

Advance registration is encouraged, because seating is limited.

For additional information, contact Gary E. Carpenter at 315-487-4567 or gcarpenter-cit@worldnet.att.net or the author at 212-684-0011 or yr@personcpa.com.

For more information on the Technology Assurance Committee, visit www.nysscpa.org, click on the Find Committees tab on the left-hand side of the page and then scroll down to the Technology Assurance Committee link.

Registration

To register, contact FAE at 212-719-8383 or 800-537-3635 or visit the Society’s website at www.nysscpa.org (you will need your Society member number to register). Go to the Technology Assurance Committee homepage and select “AICPA Top 10 Technologies” located within the “Free IT CPE” box.

Yigal Rechtman, CPA, CITP, CISM, is a partner with Person & Company, LLP CPAs, in New York City and is a member of the NYSSCPA’s Technology Assurance Committee. The views expressed in this article are Rechtman’s and not his firm’s.