Accounting Influencers

Episode 90. In today's interview, "How Accountants Adapt to New Technology with Farooq Raja."Farooq Raja is an investor and architect of AIRPA, an integration and automation platform for accountants and their clients. The mission is to give accountants and business people time back to from routine processes to use their skills and experience to better serve their customers.. He trained as accountant in the National Health Service (NHS) and then moved to commerce with British Telecom (BT) as financial controller and Unilever as Head Office Accountant. He then worked with Coopers and Lybrand in management consulting before setting up a technology implementation consultancy called Mokum which later sold to PWC. For two decades, he started and ran multiple small businesses learning about different industries, processes and the fine line between success and failure in business.Key takeaways from this episode include:➜ what early businesses looked like when technology entered the workplace and fell