The partner relationships aren't going anywhere, but the prep work, the early reviews and the tidy-up of the file are, and a practice that cuts ten hours off a job sees it in the profit pretty quickly. Her worry is what that does to the people coming up behind. If trainees skip the basic prep, how do they build the instinct to know when the bot has got it right?
Ryan Pearcy says nobody has worked out what the firm of the future looks like yet. Some see a thin bottom layer and a wide band of reviewers, others the opposite. What he is sure of is that you can't skip the junior level, or you've simply outsourced the problem to yourself. People who understand both the technology and the accounting will matter more, not less.
From episode 6.38 of Digi-Tools in Accrual World, with Indi Tatla, John Toon and Ryan Pearcy.
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