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Digital CPA - Staying Connected with Clients in the Cloud

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As a digital practitioner, you can attract and serve clients from around the world. However, the basics of client management still apply: you need to establish trust and build relationships. This session will address how to establish and maintain client relationships through digital means.

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Staying Connected with Clients in the Digital Age

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Tom Hood, CPA, CITP, CGMA CEO

MACPA & BLI

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If there is a conversation about the future of the profession, you're bound to hear Hood's name mentioned as one of the people leading the way. – Accounting Today

Tom Hood, CPA, CITP, CGMA

! Named the Second Most Influential in Accounting

by Accounting Today Magazine 2013 ! 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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Are you Future ready? •  80% See future role of

CPA changing by 2025 •  58% Agree that

understanding disruptive innovations, workforce and change management will affect CPA future role

•  82% Need to better understand innovation

•  20% Believe disruptive innovations will be driving influence by 2025

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SMAC Stack

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Source: John Mancini - AIIM

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Era

Years

Typical thing managed

Best known company

Content mgmt focus

Mainframe

1960-1975

A batch trans

IBM

Microfilm

Mini

1975-1992

A dept process

Digital Equipment

Image Mgmt

PC

1992-2001

A document

Microsoft

Document Mgmt

Internet

2001-2009

A web page

Google

Content Mgmt

Social and Cloud

2010-2015

interactions

Facebook

Social Business Systems

Systems of Record

Systems of Engagement

Source: John Mancini - AIIM

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Information Chaos

Systems of Engagement and Record misaligned.

Mobile means information leaking everywhere.

Information coming faster than it can be digested.

More silos than ever – and new ones in the cloud

The “business” circumvents IT.

We’re spending too much on technology.

Information Opportunity

End to end process synchronization.

Governance occurs regardless of device.

Analytics automatically categorizes and disposes.

Governance occurs regardless of location.

IT spend aligned with opportunities.

Cloud opportunities to save on legacy.

Business Benefit

Processes transparent to customers.

Employees and customers work on their own device.

Static information now at rest put into motion.

It doesn’t matter where information “lives.”

A new business/IT alignment.

IT shifts from a cost center to value creator.

Source: John Mancini - AIIM

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CFO of the Future will create strategic impact

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1.  All  cloud,  all  the  /me.  2.  Technology  3.  Mobility  4.  An  open  mind  5.  Coffee!  

Essen%als  1.  Don’t  manage.  Lead.  2.  Hire  the  right  people.  3.  Communica/on.  4.  Integra/on  –  Outlook,  contacts,  e-­‐

mail,  calendars  5.  Updates  /  connec/ons  

Managing  virtually  Jody  Padar   Jason  Blumer   Jennifer  Katrulya  

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Tom’s  Favorite  Connec/on  Tools  •  Skype  •  Join.me  •  Go  To  Mee/ng  •  Dropbox    •  Google  Apps  •  Google  Hangouts  •  Face/me  •  Slideshare.net  •  Social  Technologies  •  Evernote  

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High  Tech  –  High  Touch  

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“In  a  period  of  rapid  change  and  increasing  complexity,  the  winners  are  going  to  be  the  people  who  can  LEARN  faster  than  the  rate  of  CHANGE  

and  faster  than  their  COMPETITION.”  -­‐  Tom  Hood,  CPA.CITP.CGMA  

7/24/14  

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Tom’s  Learning  Favorite  Tools  

“Use  the  tools,  don’t  let  the  tools  use  you.”  –  Francine  McKenna  @retheauditors    

•  Twi\er  •  Linked-­‐In  •  Blog  •  Slideshare.net  •  Evernote  •  Tweetdeck.com  •  Hootsuite.com  •  Zite.com    •  Kindle  

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Copyright © 2013 American Institute of CPAs. All rights reserved.

THANK YOU

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