Accountants have pretty much always used technology — what else do you call an abacus or a slide rule or an adding machine? — but it is increasingly obvious that, as the world moves through its digital revolution, it has slowly become a technology-driven profession, where powerful software solutions are not enhancements but true necessities for all but the most basic of jobs. This has led to a veritable galaxy of specialized accounting applications, and a veritable universe of other apps that, while not specific to the profession, are nonetheless invaluable to their work.
But as important as apps have become to the accounting profession, the work of sorting through them and finding the ones actually relevant to you can be somewhat intimidating. So why not let our panel of tech-forward accounting leaders do some of that for you? We asked them, very simply, what their favorite apps are and why, from apps specific to accounting to more general business apps, or those that are just fun to use in everyday life. What we got was a wide variety of suggestions to solve a broad set of problems that crop up in the accountant's day to day.
