hey it's patti scharf CPA and co-founder of catching clouds the leader in
e-commerce accounting today's video was inspired by a common thread about
somebody who basically it seemed like they were posting just to kind of
reinforce the fact that they think that QuickBooks desktop is kind of here to
stay and I kind of thought that we had solved this this issue years ago like if
you look around you with all the machine learning going on with artificial
intelligence with all the integrations between QuickBooks Online and Xero and
like hundreds of other tools that help create operational efficiency I kind of
thought that that question was answered but perhaps not so this person was
basically saying that desktop is here to stay and her proof was that there are
plenty of people out there who are still looking for to work with QuickBooks
desktop and her proof was that she had gained about 40 new clients in the last
three years and you know I'm not sure that's a statistically significant
number not to go all dorky number E on you but like I looked it up they're like
six hundred and eleven thousand businesses and Colorado alone so forty
clients over three years I think that's just kind of when you have a bell curve
it's kind of on the end of the curve that's all so so but I didn't want to
talk to people who like actually truly believe now I get the change is hard
it's really hard for everybody and when you already know QuickBooks desktop and
you're comfortable with it and you see the pricing model of these new tools
where you're paying per month instead of paying one flat rate and then you own it
forever regardless of whether they update the software or not after three
years I understand that it can be painful but you know it's just a cost of
doing business you're paying for enhanced security you're paying for
collaboration when not only with other people that you need
to collaborate with but also with other tools that will help make your business
more efficient any time I see an ad on I think about how I used to do things back
in 1992 when I first started doing accounting and we would print out these
checks in triplicate because we would need one copy for the numeric file and
one copy with a vendor file that had the the support attached to it and then the
cheque that would go out and then I look at something like bill comm or beam or
any of these tools that like take what I would spend 40 hours a week doing and
get it done in like one hour and at a fraction of the cost obviously so I just
I think that people aren't quite seeing things the way I see them and I wanted
to create this video just to kind of give people a little perspective I
suppose you know and there is one other thing I was I was on a in a different
conversation where somebody was talking about how QuickBooks Online and Xero and
other tools like that like they're adding automation they're adding machine
learning they're adding these things that are basically going to put
accountants as we know them out of business now I don't think that
accountants are going out of business I think that they just need to adapt their
skills and they need to elevate their skills a little bit and not be typists
where you're just doing data entry because that doesn't really add value
for anybody it really you know accountants who are going to survive
this kind of transition in the technological age they're going to have
to learn how to get different systems to talk to each other they're going to have
to know how the accounting and business works at a really deep level so that
they can help guide their clients to good answers
you know because just because automation exists doesn't mean that we're not going
to be able to help them in other ways and making their businesses better I
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