Unlocking the Potential of AI in Accounting
AI is revolutionising industries, including accounting. At Dext, we're at the cutting edge of this transformation. Dive deep with us into the vast opportunities and crucial aspects of AI in accounting.
Alongside fellow industry experts, Dext’s own Chief Product and Technology Officer Stephen Edginton will play host to a number of insightful panel discussions, running over the next few months.
Optimising AI: Harnessing its full potential
The second of three webinars in the series will focus on how early adopters of AI can make the most out of the tools available to them, in order to elevate accounting and bookkeeping to the next level.
Panelists include:
Paul Aplin OBE, MTD & UK Tax Specialist Consultant
Stuart Hurst, Managing Director, Accounts & Legal
Nicola Mason, Managing Director, Contractor Unlimited
CPTO, Dext
Stephen Edginton, leads the global product and engineering teams at Dext in crafting top-tier, AI-driven solutions empowering businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers to do more. Formerly the Chief Innovation Officer and SVP of Engineering at Epicor Software and co-founded the software development and consultancy company Dot-Net-IT, aiding global clients in digital transformations. With a rich background collaborating with diverse businesses, Stephen advocates AI as the key to unlocking greater potential in the business realm.
MTD and UK Tax Specialist Consultant | Writer and Speaker on Tax & Technology
Paul Aplin OBE is a former president of ICAEW and was for 40 years in practice in an independent west country firm. He is a member of HMRC’s Administrative Burdens Advisory Board, Tax Faculty board, CIOT council, and CFE tax technology committee. He is adviser to personal tax app untied, ToD and Dext and is a regular commentator on tax and technology issues
Managing Director, Accounts & Legal
Stuart is MD at accountants and legal, and winner of Xero’s award for ‘Most Valuable Professional”. Stuart has carried out over 2,000 cloud conversions which goes beyond setting up the accounting platform, but also bringing the app stack around it in to make the most of cloud. Stuart has also worked with a number of other accounting practices to help them automate their own systems internal and help manage change and set targets for practices.
MD, Contractor Unlimited
Nicola is Managing Director of Point accounting Ltd & Contractor Unlimited with a team of 8 staff they focus on small to medium sized entities in all areas of the UK & Isle of man. She is an AAT Licenced accountant, holding an accountancy bachelors & master’s degree with a particular focus on automation of reporting. She's also one of the founders of Accountants and bookkeepers support Facebook group which currently has 12.8k members.