“Each firm’s submission clearly highlighted both how they embrace new technologies and ideas, and just as importantly, that they recognize that this is what will drive their firm and clients forward to greater success,” Ariege Misherghi, global leader of Intuit’s Accountant Segment, Small Business and Self-Employed Group, said in a prepared statement.

One finalist each was selected to represent Australia, Canada, India, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The finalists are Cloud Bookkeeping Services, of Ontario, Canada;  PJCO, United Kingdom  of   Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex; United States-based Reconciled; Regional Business Services Pty Ltd, of West End, Queensland Australia; ; and Wealth Café Business Advisors Pvt Ltd, India , Mumbai, Maharashtra. 

To determine the winner, the public will vote via an online gallery on the Firm of the Future Website from October 16 through 31. Finalists will develop a video to demonstrate why they should be selected with intuit providing a videographer and producer and working with the firm.

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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