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3 top tech trends for public accountants to watch in 2017

Abrigo

Ellison-Taylor, chairman of the AICPA , recently noted that technology tops her list of the most important trends shaping 2017 because it will drive so many of the profession’s opportunities and challenges in the year ahead. But how are accountants supposed to keep up with all of the technological trends ?

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Small Businesses At The Center Of Bots Vs Accountants

PYMNTS

Separate reports from The Wall Street Journal ( WSJ ), published last April, also demonstrated the changing nature of corporate finance: While the Big Four accounting firms’ advisory and consulting revenue jumped by a combined 44 percent since 2012, revenue from straightforward auditing for the firms rose just 3 percent in that time.

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Google Tracker: Making Allies And Enemies

PYMNTS

It used a “packing” technique to compress code with encryption to evade Google’s security filters. The Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies alerted Google to the cyberattack on Aug. 2012 not to use third-party content such as images and reviews from parties that opted out, a practice known as “scraping.”

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Challenges to monetary policy: lessons from Medieval Europe

BankUnderground

This is done by ensuring money is produced according to the strictest standards and avoiding manipulating it to the king’s benefit ( inflation tax ). The French crown successfully engaged in repeated episodes of inflation-tax financing of wars ( Sussman and Zeira (2003) ). Lesson from the Medieval French monetary experience.

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Bitcoin Blushing With Secret Admirers

PYMNTS

You might, when you find out that they were the first to file for a bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In 2012, according to Forbes , while vacationing in Ibiza, the fraternal entrepreneurs were introduced to bitcoin and fancied its chances as an alternative to fiat currencies.

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Can Rio de Janeiro Withstand The Olympic Pressure?

PYMNTS

In this week’s edition of PYMNTS’ Weekly Tech Center Roundup , we set our sights on Brazil, where, despite the political and economic issues that tend to dominate the headlines, the country’s technology market is still going strong. Tech giants, such as Siemens, Cisco and Microsoft, are building technology centers in the city.

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39 Crypto Fintech Unicorns

Fintech Labs Insights

Phantom Technologies. Value ($B). Value Date. 1 Feb 2022. FTX Exchange. Jan 2022 round. Dec 2019 round. July 2021 SPAC (proposed). Cayman Islands. Circle Internet Financial. July 2021 SPAC (proposed). Nov 2021 round. Dec 2021 round. Blockchain.com. Mar 2021 round. Chainalysis. June 2021 round. Aug 2021 round. 2019 round (per Fortune).

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