Collaboration: A tale of two CPAs

Once upon a time, in two local firms located fairly close to each other in the same city, were two CPAs named John and Wendy. While both worked in public practice, their practices were very different. When it came to technology, John and Wendy considered themselves to be fairly savvy. After all, they both had laptop PCs and knew how to connect via their virtual private networks to their servers. That should have been good enough to conduct business, yet they found themselves constantly figuring out workarounds to common problem. We live in a time when technology is a huge plus, thanks to Web-enabled applications, of course, bur also because of collaboration. In short, collaboration occurs when two providers join together for the good of the end user. Today, collaboration is commonplace within accounting, and doesn't just happen between an ERP accounting program and others. It's happening all over the place, especially in the cloud. Go to any trade show or conference, and you'll find these providers or vendors exhibiting together or in booths next to each other..