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Roman is a principal with Boomer Consulting, a firm specializing in technology consulting to CPA firms, based in Manhattan, Kansas. He specializes in developing and implementing long-term technology plans for CPA firms across the country. Roman is currently a member of the AICPA's Information Technology Research Subcommittee. In this article, he describes a tool that will enable you to better manage the mass quantities of paper that routinely invade your in-box.
Imagine the ability to eliminate a large portion of the paper on your desk: to be able to scan a handwritten memo and e-mail or fax it to key people throughout your firm, to be able to store articles and copies of receipts on your desktop rather than in a file "somewhere," and to be able to distribute them whenever needed. The paperless office has always been a hot topic of discussion for CPA firms. In reality, most people like to work with paper (except when filing!) and the previously prohibitive costs of usable imaging systems have given them a reason to continue to do so. Personal scanners, linked to the myriad of applications now being used in the Windows environment, have changed all this. For more than a year, the Visioneer...