Why It's Good that Accounting & Fintech Events Are Now Back Face to Face

Episode 22. In today's news episode, the Accounting Influencers Podcast reviews a real live accounting fintech event as big face to face gatherings return for accountants and software vendors. Key shownotes from the whole interview include: ➨ Initial impressions on walking into Accountex North Live, one of the UK's biggest accounting and fintech events ➨ How allowing more space for social distancing makes events seem less busy ➨ Two notable absentees in the software vendor space and why they might have chosen not to exhibit ➨ Which topics and seminars accounting practitioners attended most, and why this is not good ➨ The massive UK government turnaround on the Making Tax Digital initiative, now deferred for 12 months ➨ Which vital topics were not valued nor well attended by most short sighted accounting practitioners ➨ The need for accountants and CPAs to get closer to their clients as we head into post-Covid recovery ➨ Why this event signals a return (not a rush) to 'in person' events across the UK and other countries ➨ A signpost to Europe's biggest agnostic accounting and fintech event in London 2022 - Accountex ➨ Shout out to the Digital Accounting Forum, Accounting Web Live and Digital Accounting Show events NOTE TO LISTENERS: Martin and Rob love to hear from the show's 5000+ listeners in 136 countries around the world. If you have any questions, suggestions, comments or success stories, just type sayhi.chat/aip into your browser and leave us a quick and easy voice message. We may just feature you on the show!