Andrusko: Accounting firms face top-down pressure to solve labor shortages with software
Marc Andrusko · How AI Will Transform Accounting: A $100B Opportunity Explained · Dec 17, 2024 · at 5:22
Marc Andrusko, an investor at Andreessen Horowitz, discusses how demographic headwinds and accountant retirements are forcing firm leadership to adopt software solutions.
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“These firms from the very top down are feeling tremendous pressure to fill these gaps, not just with additional humans, but really with software.”
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