A Working List of Things Accounting Firms Will Be Fretting About in 2018

1. Disruption
2. Change
3. Disruptive change
4. The pace of disruptive change
5. Whether or not they’ve figured out the cloud
6. Finding qualified talent
7. Millennials
8. Figuring out how to find qualified talent that aren’t millennials
9. The inevitable cyberattack that will result in every client the firm has ever had filing a lawsuit
10. Artificial intelligence making accountants obsolete through automation
11. Artificial intelligence making accountants obsolete through extermination
12. Whether or not to accept Bitcoin as payment for services
13. After deciding to accept Bitcoin as payment for services, figuring out what the hell Bitcoin is
14. Client retention
15. Client retention in the event of a merger with another firm
16. Client retention in the event of nuclear war

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