{"id":36038,"date":"2017-04-11T00:23:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T07:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/accountants-are-embracing-artificial-intelligence"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:05:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:05:20","slug":"accountants-are-embracing-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/accountants-are-embracing-artificial-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Accountants are embracing artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/accountants-are-embracing-artificial-intelligence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite the popular belief that artificial intelligence is coming to take your jobs away, accountants would love some robotic help to get them through the day. This is according to a new report by Sage, which says 96 percent of accountants are confident about the future of accountancy as well as their role in it.<\/p>\n<p>Despite welcoming change, more than two thirds of respondents (68 percent) expect their roles to change through automation, in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what accountants are expecting from automation: almost four in ten (38 percent) see number-crunching as their number one frustration. Thirty-two percent still use manual methods for this work. A quarter (25 percent) use Excel while seven percent still use handwritten notes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/betanews.com\/2017\/04\/10\/accountants-want-ai\/\">https:\/\/betanews.com\/2017\/04\/10\/accountants-want-ai\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the popular belief that artificial intelligence is coming to take your jobs away, accountants would love some robotic help to get them through the day. This is according to a new report by Sage, which says 96 percent of accountants are confident about the future of accountancy as well as their role in it. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36038","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=36038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58107,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36038\/revisions\/58107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}