{"id":3404,"date":"2016-08-25T08:07:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T13:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taxprocenter.proconnect.intuit.com\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2017-10-19T18:47:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T23:47:04","slug":"digital-workflow-is-the-new-norm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accountants.intuit.com\/taxprocenter\/practice-management\/digital-workflow-is-the-new-norm\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Workflow is the New Norm"},"content":{"rendered":"

While there are still legitimate concerns over data security across financial arenas, the days of digital doubt are long gone. Software security measures have advanced to such a degree that even simple transactions can be protected with bank-level security encoding. This rapidly evolving technology has led to increased consumer comfort with conducting financial transactions online.<\/p>\n

In the increasingly complicated tax world, even simple returns require a large number of documents, forms and signatures. That\u2019s why adopting a digital workflow has become the new norm among tax professionals: you want the efficiency, and your clients want the convenience.<\/p>\n

The trend is clear. <\/strong>According to the Federal Reserve<\/a>, the use of mobile banking has nearly doubled in the past four years, a clear indication of how consumers have grown increasingly more comfortable with viewing financial data and conducting financial transactions online.<\/p>\n

The same study showed that:<\/p>\n