SleeterCon 2015 Conclusion
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 3:57 am
UPDATE - October 12, 2016: Platforms will be at Accountex again in 2016, and we'd love to see you there. I'll be speaking on Tuesday, November 15th on "How to Design an Accounting Technology Selection System," but we'll be on the exhibit floor for the duration of the conference. Platforms readers can save on registration by using the code "CAPTERRA" at checkout. Hope to see you there!
Three days of talks, demos, focused conversations, and business card swapping have finally come to an end. SleeterCon 2015— the last SleeterCon —closed its doors to Vegas and packed up. It was three days filled with discussions about training and accounting software , and I know I'll be analyzing it all over the next few weeks.
accounting software
In the meantime, I can talk about the big pictures, so here's a rundown of all the show's first winners.
Anything you can do, a machine can do better.
If there was one theme at this year’s conference moj database it was the role of automation in the accounting of the future. Sometimes that took the form of a discussion about using tools to automate more tasks, and other times it was about how accountants can continue to create value for their clients and themselves as the industry changes.
When it comes to automation, the biggest thing next year is optical character recognition (OCR). You may have never heard of OCR, but you've seen its effects online. When you open a scanned PDF and can search for text on the screen, that's because the document was scanned with a program that supports OCR.
OCR basically takes an image from a scanner or a photo and can find text in it. For accountants, this means employees can take photos of their receipts and those photos can be converted into useful text.
Software providers like Hubdoc and Expensify can run this OCR system on your receipts, extract all the important information, and then dump it into the system of your choice – like accounting software. This eliminates manual entry by your employees, manual entry by the accountant, and then another round of checking once it gets to the accounting software.
Right now, companies are getting to the point where OCR can be done quickly and efficiently, giving accountants a variety of low-cost options to automate the process.
Three days of talks, demos, focused conversations, and business card swapping have finally come to an end. SleeterCon 2015— the last SleeterCon —closed its doors to Vegas and packed up. It was three days filled with discussions about training and accounting software , and I know I'll be analyzing it all over the next few weeks.
accounting software
In the meantime, I can talk about the big pictures, so here's a rundown of all the show's first winners.
Anything you can do, a machine can do better.
If there was one theme at this year’s conference moj database it was the role of automation in the accounting of the future. Sometimes that took the form of a discussion about using tools to automate more tasks, and other times it was about how accountants can continue to create value for their clients and themselves as the industry changes.
When it comes to automation, the biggest thing next year is optical character recognition (OCR). You may have never heard of OCR, but you've seen its effects online. When you open a scanned PDF and can search for text on the screen, that's because the document was scanned with a program that supports OCR.
OCR basically takes an image from a scanner or a photo and can find text in it. For accountants, this means employees can take photos of their receipts and those photos can be converted into useful text.
Software providers like Hubdoc and Expensify can run this OCR system on your receipts, extract all the important information, and then dump it into the system of your choice – like accounting software. This eliminates manual entry by your employees, manual entry by the accountant, and then another round of checking once it gets to the accounting software.
Right now, companies are getting to the point where OCR can be done quickly and efficiently, giving accountants a variety of low-cost options to automate the process.