Accountants coping with change. PTIN fees tossed out. New audit report from PCAOB.
A few interesting reads for accountants.
- If we keep learning, robots will free us up from dreary work but won’t take away our jobs
- Federal court keeps PTIN requirement in place but overturns the fee requirement
- PCAOB expands standard auditor’s report
5/30/17 – Bill Sheridan at Business Learning Institute – Robots aren’t stealing our jobs. They’re setting us free. – Mr. Sheridan describes how we as accountants could thrive as computers take away the basic number crunching parts of our work.
Those tasks we do that can be automated will shift. That will leave the strategic thinking, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and anticipation to us.
In my little brain, I have a way to describe this – So let’s say you have a program that can review 100% of disbursements instead of you drawing a sample of 40 or 60 items. Cool.
In any client that still uses humans to run their organizations, how many exceptions do you know think you will need to address?
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