Down payments on the future of accounting

Everywhere you look these days, it seems like you can find people making big investments in the future of accounting, putting up money and time and effort to innovate in just about every area of the profession. Think of the Big Four spending millions on artificial intelligence, cognitive computing and the data-based tools and services of tomorrow, or the American Institute of CPAs and its firm partners spending tens of millions to build their Dynamic Audit Solution and completely revamp the audit. Or how about those Top 100 Firms that are merging in non-accounting businesses that focus on everything from IT security to marketing to HR services? I need hardly mention the software providers, from big players like Wolters Kluwer and Thomson Reuters to new upstarts like botkeeper and Mindbridge AI, that are pursuing accounting innovation on a multitude of fronts. So, what are you doing to build the future of accounting?