The Tech Talk for Accountants Show

Ford Baker, CPA, has over 35 years of experience in the public accounting industry, with over 20 of experience running a firm, BaCo Group, PLLC. In that role, Ford constantly sought to improve the efficiency of his firm through technology and forward-thinking. His passion was built out of a unique backstory; in 2012 he weighed almost 400 pounds, but by 2014 he had changed his life and rode a bicycle from Canada to Mexico down the Pacific Coast Highway. He had a passion and focus on eliminating the clutter in his practice that created the 400-pound version of himself that he did not want to see return. Ultimately, Ford developed an in-house transaction-based workflow using Excel and various other off the shelf utilities that make gathering data and working with data more real-time. This workflow concept can change the industry from a reactive service from putting last year’s balances on last year’s returns to proactive services, teaching clients the impact of this year’s numbers on their business, its exit value, and next year’s tax bill, today.

Rich Jackson is dedicated to helping all organisations and the people who work within them, to understand and embrace the power they hold - in keeping data secure (and the cyber criminals away!).

Andrew Hunzicker, CPA is President of CFO Bend. He is an expert in Cannabis startups, CFO services, turnaround strategies, high-growth strategies, capital sourcing, mergers, exits, and wealth protection. He has provided executive leadership and business counsel to companies across many industries including retail, manufacturing, energy, medical/bio, high tech and more. In 2017, he was the runner up in the Portland Business Journal CFO of the Year Award.

For more than a decade, Vault Rooms has been an industry leading cloud based virtual data room provider. Vault Rooms helps to accelerate complex, information-intensive business transactions and processes by providing a virtual data room platform for uploading and organizing documents, managing user access and producing a variety of activity and audit reports. Vault Rooms virtual data rooms enable worldwide clients 24/7/365, to safely collect, share and track business critical documents on the Vault Rooms platform.

Elsa Arcilla is a Certified Information Systems Auditor and a Certified Common Security Framework Practitioner with a decade of experience in the IT Audit field. She is often consulting on and managing matters relating to information security compliance.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/information-systems-auditor/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-hughes-122122/

https://www.rightnetworks.com/

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanbengelea/

Jonathan is known as a Business Profit Tax Coach & Teacher extraordinaire, author, and entrepreneur, guiding small business owners through the darkness of taxation; transforming their business and personal lives to Financial Happiness.

After working in corporate construction accounting for almost 20 years, Tonya decided to create a unique firm - The Profit Constructors.  Their commitment - not only serve the specialized accounting needs of the construction industry, but open doors for them.

She and her team think of themselves as advocates for the small to medium sized construction contractors they serve. What does advocacy mean?  From their CPA, insurance company, to other contractors up and down the line and, of course, governmental regulatory agencies such as departments of revenue.  Across the board they are able to help their clients gain new work, faster, easier, and for a better price.

Now Tonya has begun to find a new joy in sharing her knowledge and expertise with others who wish to advise this industry. She delights in passing on what years of experience have shown her, and doing so in a meaningful way.

47-Daniel Henn, CPA, PA is the “tax man” behind the firm CPA Rockledge. He is the author of “The No Holds Barred, Candid Talk About Small Business Success In Florida” now available on Amazon.com. He has over 20 years of tax experience that is used to help the firm’s clients save taxes related to federal and state income taxes, state sales and use taxes, and property taxes.

46-It is absolutely vital that your website is professional, functional, and beautiful. For some time now, Brady has been creating and designing websites for businesses, national non-profits, candidates, and more. He specializes in providing an excellent client experience resulting in an eye-catching, simple, user-friendly website that will attract and convert.