ARE YOU READY FOR YOUR ROBOTS?

[...]the only things these robots are "taking over" are the terrible, repetitive tasks that have bored many intelligent finance professionals for centuries. Auditing. Because the robo-accountants have performed most of the manual work, human accountants now have plenty of time to focus on ensuring integrity, accuracy, and audit functions instead of looking for and correcting human errors. Access to real-time data is key to informing the business of where things stand and where they are going. [...]a Continuous Accounting model must be in place so the business advisor can deliver reporting at the point of need. 4. By automating time-consuming, error-prone, repetitive work, robo-accountants create more possibilities for human workers to do what human brains do best: creating, connecting, and analyzing. Because robotic process automation is still relatively new-and accountants have been mired in task-based, manual work for centuries-the extent of that possibility is uncharted territory.