Tech Disruption - Making Your Accounting Firm Future Ready - Accounting Voices Podcast

Episode 98

Tech Disruption – Making Your Accounting Firm Future Ready

Published on: 16th April, 2020

Ian Khan is the creator of the Future Readiness Score (FRS), a KPI he developed to help organizations counter disruption and become efficient, impactful and relevant in the future. He works with Private and Public sector organizations worldwide and is a leading thinker and industry advocate.

Ian is a CNN featured Technology Futurist, 3 times TEDx Speaker, Director of highly acclaimed documentary “Blockchain City", Bestselling author of “7 Axioms of Value Creation”, and contributor to many publications including McGraw Hill and Forbes. He is also a founding member of the Government Experience (GX) initiative by the Prime Minister’s Office, UAE. Shownotes:

  • Why hype vs reality is the key argument when talking about technology
  • The greatest challenges facing accountancy today
  • Accountancy has stayed much the same for 500 years
  • The big drivers now changing the accountancy profession
  • Why there is confusion over how blockchain and AI is evolving
  • Insights on blockchain and AI from a technology futurist
  • How movies are influenced by future technologies
  • Shout out to Ian's Amazon backed documentary: AI = The Next Frontier
  • Why graduates and millennials are less willing to work for accounting firms
  • The expectations that clients now have from accounting firms
  • Why accounting firms need to think differently for better client engagement
  • The need for accountancy firms to invest in new technologies
  • There's a cultural revolution taking place in accounting firms to attract talent
  • Why accountants are some of the smartest people on the planet but need to change
  • What future readiness looks like for accounting firms
  • How technology is changing exponentially and not linearly for accounting firms
  • Why accountants need to take more risks than they have traditionally done

Ian Khan on the Accounting Influencers podcast with BD Academy founder Rob Brown

In his spare time, Ian enjoys reading, shooting, nature and film-making. Currently his time is taken up by working on two films “AI – The Next Frontier” and “GX Now – Government Experiences Worldwide”. Contact Ian:

Ian's website 

Ian's LinkedIn 

Email him: ian@iankhan.com

Ian on Twitter

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Accounting Voices Podcast
Accounting Voices helps people in the accounting world stay relevant visible and vocal. Host Rob Brown interprets trends reshaping the profession and gives listeners insight to build authority influence and a stronger voice in firms and markets.
Accounting Voices, hosted by Rob Brown, helps decision makers and leaders in accounting and finance stay relevant, visible and vocal in a profession being reshaped by technology, private equity, regulation and shifting client expectations. Each episode interprets the trends disrupting accounting and finance such as AI, automation, M&A, talent and the move to advisory and translates them into practical insight that strengthens authority and influence.
Accounting Voices is also a platform for the wider ecosystem of networks, associations, educators, consultants, software vendors and technology experts who serve accountants and finance professionals worldwide. It extends into regular Accounting Voices networking sessions that connect this audience and amplify ideas that move the profession forward. With its international reach and long shelf life the show delivers credibility and commercial value for listeners and sponsors alike. Search for "Accounting Voices" on YouTube for all episodes and connect with Rob Brown on LinkedIn to find out more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/therobbrown

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Rob Brown

ob Brown is the creator and host of the Accounting Voices Network, a media platform that includes the flagship solo podcast Accounting Voices and the panel shows Accounting M&A and Accounting Tech. He chairs conferences, panels and virtual events worldwide and is recognised as a leading advocate for the accounting profession.

He is an accomplished speaker and authority on trust, reputation, employer brand, talent, succession, executive presence and the forces shaping the future of accounting. Rob is the author of the bestselling book Build Your Reputation (Wiley) and his TEDx talk The Personal Brand of You has been viewed more than 400,000 times.

A former co-founder of the Accounting Influencers Roundtable, Rob now focuses on amplifying the voices of leaders, firms, networks, vendors and influencers across the global accounting ecosystem.

Outside of work he is a stroke survivor, lives with epilepsy, holds a black belt in kickboxing and is based in Nottingham, UK. He plays chess and backgammon, loves orange chocolate and is allergic to grapefruit.