{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fd05c29fa-cd15-4b2c-ac84-44a4edff7a74","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Why It's Good that Accounting & Fintech Events Are Now Back Face to Face","description":"Episode 22. In today's news episode, the Accounting Influencers Podcast reviews a real live accounting fintech event as big face to face gatherings return for accountants and software vendors.\n\n\n\nKey shownotes from the whole interview include:\n\n\u27a8 Initial impressions on walking into Accountex North Live, one of the UK's biggest accounting and fintech events\n\n\u27a8 How allowing more space for social distancing makes events seem less busy\n\n\u27a8 Two notable absentees in the software vendor space and why they might have chosen not to exhibit\n\n\u27a8 Which topics and seminars accounting practitioners attended most, and why this is not good\n\n\u27a8 The massive UK government turnaround on the Making Tax Digital initiative, now deferred for 12 months\n\n\u27a8 Which vital topics were not valued nor well attended by most short sighted accounting practitioners\n\n\u27a8 The need for accountants and CPAs to get closer to their clients as we head into post-Covid recovery\n\n\u27a8 Why this event signals a return (not a rush) to 'in person' events across the UK and other countries\n\n\u27a8 A signpost to Europe's biggest agnostic accounting and fintech event in London 2022 - Accountex\n\n\u27a8 Shout out to the Digital Accounting Forum, Accounting Web Live and Digital Accounting Show events\n\nNOTE TO LISTENERS:\n\nMartin and Rob love to hear from the show's 5000+ listeners in 136 countries around the world. If you have any questions, suggestions, comments or success stories, just type sayhi.chat/aip into your browser and leave us a quick and easy voice message. We may just feature you on the show!","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/f23aa4a5-1899-48c9-a304-69e67227f73b/IFzm28ZnLeENFcgD9PUzaA7p.jpg"}