Futuristic Audit Trends: The Future is Now
Overview
Cloud technology, AI, Machine Learning and Blockchain are upon us in the accounting profession. The data entry and non-value added tasks continue to decline as automation increases. This technology enables clients to keep their books up to date in real-time and better understand the effect of the financials on their business. As an auditor, it’s time to learn how to take advantage of this technology to streamline your workflow and utilize remote applications to eliminate the amount of time you have to physically visit a client site as well as to create greater team engagement internally At the same time, it’s important to know how to utilize ecosystem applications to speed up the non-value added time in an audit to create more profitable engagements and a better work environment for your teams.
Highlights
Cloud technology, AI, Machine Learning and Blockchain
Cloud Advisory services
Utilization of remote technology and technologic innovations to create more efficient engagements
Next steps for audit firms to avoid being disrupted
Prerequisites
None
Designed For
Public accounting partners, managers, and staff supporting clients from an audit, tax and SOC services
Objectives
- Identify trends happening currently that will impact the future of accounting and auditing, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing, and more
- Recognize what Cloud Advisory services are and how an audit practice can use these practitioners to their advantage
- Distinguish next steps for audit firms to avoid being disrupted and to be the disruptor by better utilizing remote technology and technologic innovations to create more efficient engagements
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Amy Vetter, The B3 Method Institute Amy Vetter
Amy Vetter, CPA, CITP, CGMA, MBA, and Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) is the CEO of The B3 Method Institute and B3 Yoga, which provide ongoing learning to help people in all industries and career levels to achieve their desired potential in work and life.
Amy is a transformative keynote speaker, consultant, board member, author, and host of the podcast, Breaking Beliefs. As the creator of the B3 Method for Business, Balance & Bliss, Amy has inspired thousands of people at hundreds of events on the mindful use of technology, change management, connected leadership, mindfulness in the workplace, and work-life balance.
As a CPA, Amy is also a key influencer in the accounting and finance profession. She has been named one of the “Most Powerful Women in Accounting” by the AICPA and CPA Practice Advisor and a Top 100 Most Influential Person by Accounting Today multiple times. Amy also shares her accounting and business insights as a contributor to AICPA’s Journal of Accountancy, Accounting Today, CPA Practice Advisor as well as Inc.com and Entrepreneur.com.
Amy is a member of the AICPA Council, a Board Member for the Ohio Society of CPAs, and a member of the AICPA’s Engage Tech+ conference planning committee. Additionally, Amy has been a part of the AICPA’s key blockchain initiatives, including: AICPA’s Blockchain Symposium, technical reviewer and speaker for the AICPA’s Blockchain Fundamentals Program.
With an MBA and deep entrepreneurial roots, Amy is a skilled c-suite executive and corporate board member. She has deep experience in cloud technology and transformation, and creating go-to-market (GTM) strategies to scale businesses nationally and internationally. Amy has held leadership roles overseeing sales, education, marketing, and advisory services functions at accounting software companies, as a partner in a CPA Firm, and when she owned and operated her own national accounting and advisory services practice.
Non-Member Price $129.00
Member Price $95.00