This 75-minute presentation will introduce attendees to how surveys can clarify decision-making. Attendees will experience an introduction to surveys and learn what makes a survey statistically valid. Attendees will learn about the Accounting Firm Operation and Technology Survey and how to leverage this survey’s results when making operational and technology decisions through 2014. Attendees will take the survey during this webinar and survey results will be discussed in real-time during this webinar. This survey, the most complete operational and technology survey in the accounting profession, will produce actionable items and insights that are not available from any other source.

This presentation will be led by the survey’s founding team, Randy Johnston, President, Network Management Group, Inc., and Leslie Garrett, PhD, CEO of Insight Research Group.

The survey questions were finalized with oversight from an advisory board comprised of several of the industry’s most highly respected thought-leaders:

• Mike Sabbatis, Advisory Board Chair, Chief Revenue Officer, RealPage and former CEO and President of CCH Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting North America.
• Darren Root, CPA.CITP, CEO RootWorks
• Rick Richardson, CPA.CITP, CGMA, CEO Richardson Media & Technologies, LLC
• Richard Oppenheim The Ventures Group, Transition Professor, The Progressive Accountant