Episode 22. In today's news episode, the Accounting Influencers Podcast reviews a real live accounting fintech event as big face to face gatherings return for accountants and software vendors.

Key shownotes from the whole interview include:

➨ Initial impressions on walking into Accountex North Live, one of the UK's biggest accounting and fintech events

➨ How allowing more space for social distancing makes events seem less busy

➨ Two notable absentees in the software vendor space and why they might have chosen not to exhibit

➨ Which topics and seminars accounting practitioners attended most, and why this is not good

➨ The massive UK government turnaround on the Making Tax Digital initiative, now deferred for 12 months

➨ Which vital topics were not valued nor well attended by most short sighted accounting practitioners

➨ The need for accountants and CPAs to get closer to their clients as we head into post-Covid recovery

➨ Why this event signals a return (not a rush) to 'in person' events across the UK and other countries

➨ A signpost to Europe's biggest agnostic accounting and fintech event in London 2022 - Accountex

➨ Shout out to the Digital Accounting Forum, Accounting Web Live and Digital Accounting Show events

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