Ep590: The challenges of balancing the books – accountancy in the 21st century

Mike Whitmire, Co-Founder & CEO, FloqastTech unicorn Floqast is a provider of accounting workflow automation, freeing the (mostly) men in green eyeshades from their spreadsheets! But seriously, accountancy is the US faces a crossroads with increasing automation and the likely future adoption of AI-backed solutions. Automation should be freeing up talent to tackle the more interesting and value-added tasks but there’s actually a talent shortage that needs addressing. It seems there is no accounting for taste or maybe no taste for accounting. Reflecting on this and on Floqast’s recent 10th anniversary, Mike Whitmire, Co-Founder and CEO of Floqast speaks to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence.