{"id":35850,"date":"2017-04-03T09:04:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T16:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/robots-are-coming-to-the-accounting-industry-heres-how-to-prepare"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:06:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:06:34","slug":"robots-are-coming-to-the-accounting-industry-heres-how-to-prepare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/robots-are-coming-to-the-accounting-industry-heres-how-to-prepare","title":{"rendered":"Robots are coming to the accounting industry \u2014 here\u2019s how to prepare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robots-are-coming-to-the-accounting-industry-heres-how-to-prepare.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And yet, as impressive and powerful as these new technologies and machines are\u2014and they\u2019re becoming more so all the time\u2014I believe they\u2019re an opportunity to be embraced by accountants.<\/p>\n<p>Computers and software have evolved to a point where they can populate spreadsheets, crunch numbers, and generate financial statements and earnings reports more quickly and accurately than any human accountant. In fact, machines are already taking on many of an accountant\u2019s old, routine, administrative chores\u2014on-line tax returns, and book-keeping software, are great examples of routine work that accountants no longer have to do.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good thing. It is already allowing for human accountants to be more sophisticated advisors and planners. In this way, technology can be best used as a tool that gives humans more space to focus on analysis, interpretation, and strategy. In other words, computers have enormous potential to empower\u2014rather than displace\u2014accountants.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/artificial-intelligence-is-an-opportunity-for-accounting-2017-3?IR=T\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/artificial-intelligence-is-an...#45;3?IR=T<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And yet, as impressive and powerful as these new technologies and machines are\u2014and they\u2019re becoming more so all the time\u2014I believe they\u2019re an opportunity to be embraced by accountants. Computers and software have evolved to a point where they can populate spreadsheets, crunch numbers, and generate financial statements and earnings reports more quickly and accurately [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58202,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35850\/revisions\/58202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}