Managing Information Technology (IT) is difficult when team members, contractors, and others all sound alike. If you manage IT, wouldn't it be nice to know the questions you should ask? Join us in this session to learn the questions to ask your technology providers and how to identify some warning flags. The session materials can serve as a starting point for your discussions with your providers. Attend this session and learn many of the things you need to know as you navigate your journey through the world of technology.

• Partners in charge of IT for your firm
• Advisory consultants helping clients with IT issues
• Internal IT team members wanting to vet suppliers
• Accountants that want to understand the IT considerations to mitigate risk
• IT steering committee members from CPA firms, or those interested in IT

• Learn how to select from a list of different approaches for delivering applications to end-users.
• Learn how to identify the correct definition for each type of IT provider.
• Pick the correct meanings associated with common IT certification acronyms.
• Learn how to associate the different kinds of available software licenses with the correct descriptive fact pattern/definition.
• Identify some of the critical service provider risks.