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The American Institute of CPAshas chosen control and use of mobile devices as the No. 1 issue for its Top Technology Initiatives for 2011. It's the second year for the ranking of initiatives, which last year replaced the previous Top Ten Technologies. The selection combines a variety of technologies and business processes impacted by technology.
The new method has fewer security-oriented issues than the Top Ten Technologies, although given the way the topics are defined, the rankings aren't completely comparable. However, information security ranked No. 2 in this year's listed followed by data retention polices and structure and remote access with staff and management training rounding out the top five.
The remainder are process documentation and improvements as No. 6; saving and making money with technology, No. 7; technology cost controls, No. 8; budget processes, No. 9; and project management and deployment of new technology, No. 10.
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind