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Computing
Trends Firms Can Expect
An article published in Source
Media's June 2005 Special Report on
the Firm of the Future
discusses necessary technologies to
compete in an increasingly global
marketplace.
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Easy
Collaboration with Clients
The
Internet has made it possible for
accountants to easily correct and
prevent mistakes clients make using
their accounting software. It aslo
helps accountants train their
clients in financial data entry
using remote control technology.
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Technical
Support Questions and Answers
Answers
to two of the most common technical
support questions from users on
printing and accessing local files
from a Virtual Desktop session.
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Technical Support
Questions and Answers
How do I set up a
newly-installed printer in my virtual
environment?
We support hundreds of
different printers and your new printer will
usually map automatically as soon as you log
into your virtual environment. No special
steps are required.
If your printer does not auto create when
you first log in, contact technical support.
There are very few printer scenarios that we
can not accommodate.
I used to be able to
access my local hard drives from within my
e-Accounting [Virtual Desktop] session, but
these drives are no longer visible. How do I
restore local drive access?
Local
drive access or drive mapping, is a great
feature that e-Accounting users can use to
copy files between their server drives and
their local hard drives. Users are prompted
to select their drive mapping preferences
during their initial login and may be
prompted again subsequently, depending on
their configuration.
If a
user selects "Full Access" and “Never ask me
again for any application”, their drive
mapping selection will be saved and they
will not be prompted again, which is very
convenient – unless they’ve made the wrong
choice...
Ways to restore access
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Computing Trends
Firms Can Expect*
What will the
accounting firm or company of the future
need to do to survive?
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*Article by InsynQ, Inc.,
published in the Firm of the
Future Special Report, June
2005, a supplement to
Accounting Today, Accounting
Technology, and Practical
Accountant. Although
targeting accountants, the
issues raised are applicable
to all organizations.
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What computing innovations will the accounting firm
of the future use? How will they affect financial
services, practice management, and revenues? The
answers to these questions are found by examining
today’s emerging online technologies.
The Internet, access to high-speed connectivity, and
improved security have allowed firms today to pursue
a variety of remote access solutions that make
online accounting possible. This trend has not come
close to reaching its potential. The firm of the
future will see a refined and improved set of online
solutions and will find it necessary to adopt these
solutions in order to survive and effectively
compete in an increasingly global marketplace.
Consider these emerging trends:
Purchasing Technology as a Service
The Internet has become the great equalizer in
business. Today, an innovative small firm can
compete with a large firm on the level of
technology. Online solutions don’t require large
capital expenditures in servers and related hardware
and software. Web-based or Web-accessible solutions
are low cost and can be delivered on demand. This
has led to firms purchasing technology as a service
rather than as a product. The
technology-as-a-service model allows companies to
quickly procure affordable state-of-the-art
integrated solutions whenever they need them and
mitigates the hassle of continuous maintenance and
technology upgrades. In the future, this model will
expand and become standard practice for firms.
The Future
Accountant’s Technology
The firm of the future will utilize computing
technology that further bridges the gap between an
archival system and the firm’s live working files,
as well as between live working files and their
clients’ systems. The bridge will allow a remarkably
seamless integration between firm and archival data,
and between firm and live client data through
refined web-accessible technologies, many of which
are available today. This will further streamline a
firm’s financial services and practice management,
build new efficiencies, and allow time for more
advisory services that can increase revenues.
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Easy Collaboration
with Clients
The Internet is an
open door to more efficient work with
clients and staff
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Source Media’s June
2005 special report on the Firm of the
Future had many articles that emphasized the
revolutionary nature of the Internet in
transforming practices and businesses. One
major opportunity the Internet creates is
innovative and efficient collaboration with
clients and team members.
For accounting professionals, the PC
revolution of the 80’s and 90’s had one
significant impact on client engagements:
clients started using accounting software
and implementing their own accounting
process. Unfortunately, this had a negative
effect on accounting professionals. With
little knowledge of accounting, most small
business clients inadvertantly made
accounting mistakes, which caused headaches
for their accountants who had to correct
them. The Internet has begun to change this.
For example, if an accountant has clients
who use QuickBooks® or another popular
accounting application, he or she can create
an online accounting service through hosting
client applications and data with an
application service provider (ASP). This
gives the accountant direct anytime-anywhere
access to client data, makes it simple to
collaborate with the client in real time
(regardless of the location of either),
correct and prevent mistakes, and even train
the client in accurate data entry through a
remote-control feature called shadowing. All
this is possible without visiting the
clients office and it puts the accountant in
control of the process.
See more about how online solutions can
create easy client collaboration
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