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Carla Harris, author of _Expect to Win_ and _Strategize to Win_, and a gospel recording artist shares the components of positioning yourself to maximize your success as a leader in your current career environment or the environment that you want. She’ll explore the concepts of performance currency vs. relationship currency, managing through and creating change, and how to be an impactful and influential leader.
Listen to women in the profession talk about how they were able to overcome barriers and achieve their accomplishments while not falling prey to the “superwoman” mentality.
This session will provide the attendees with an overview of the entire SOC space. From SOC1 to SOC2 to SOC3 to SOC for CyberSecurity and all of the other flavors and types of SOC reporting that may exist at the time of the conference. Attendees will walk away with an understanding of the differences between the various levels and types of SOC reporting. Attendees will have an understanding of how to monetize this space and will be provided with links to resources that will help from planning to delivering these services.
The speed of technology change has been accelerating. But unfortunately, we can’t keep up, and we don’t know what to do about it. This visionary session provides insights, choices, and recommendations to help you decide how rapidly to move, which technologies will affect your business, and how to separate sales pitches from innovative ideas. This session will explore emerging and evolving technologies important to accounting professionals. We will cover the benefits and risks of adopting new technologies in areas ranging from software applications to hardware devices. You’ll also learn how to develop a balanced technology strategy that includes current, emerging, and future technology choices for your firm or business.
Whether you’re going out on your own or reinventing your practice, the post-pandemic environment has raised the bar on what your team and its clients expect from firm's technology. We will review the current state of small and mid-sized CPA firm technology to help your team identify the best applications and services to make your team more effective today and in the future. Attend this breakout and learn more about what you might be missing in your technology stack.
Microsoft Office 365 is one of the most underutilized technology investments in CPA firms and business organizations in general. In this session, John will share his knowledge and experience of helping numerous organizations to effectively deploy Office 365 and maximize the benefits of an investment you are likely already making. You will experience how the integration of Teams, SharePoint, Power BI, Planner, OneNote and other apps in the Office 365 ecosystem can be harnessed to truly optimize your firm's ability to communicate, collaborate and share knowledge with staff and clients in a virtual work environment.
What are the latest tools and technologies available to make the life of a road warrior a little easier? In this session, we will take a closer look at the practical and mobile technologies supporting and empowering remote employees to work smarter.
In this session we outline the foundational pieces that need to be in put place to turn your current culture into a competitive advantage for your organization.