While that has not much changed, the manner in which it is performed has undergone a massive evolutionary step in the past, two decades.Consider just three points:y Clients use accounting software. Accountants are not dealing with monthly boxes of scribbled notes, hand-written checks and printed bank statements. Instead, companies are increasingly using bookkeeping tools, electronic banking, automated payroll and other services to streamline their own operations and make life easier for accountants. Likewise, software vendors are stepping up with new tools to better integrate the two and eliminate unnecessary steps in the process.Dave McClure is the president of Kent Associates, in Alexandria, Va., an independent testing laboratory and evaluation service.
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