AI and accountancy: Evolution or elimination?
Here is what the data tells us
WHENEVER a new wave of technology emerges, the same question follows: Will this replace jobs?
With artificial intelligence (AI), that question feels more urgent. AI can scan thousands of transactions in seconds. It can detect patterns humans might miss. Understandably, people are asking whether accountants, especially junior ones, will become obsolete.
From the lens of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (Isca), that is not where the profession is heading.
TRENDING NOW
Tiger Brokers, Moomoo, Longbridge Singapore units ‘financially independent’ amid China crackdown: MAS
Yeo’s, Tiger Beer and now Gardenia – flight of food manufacturing from Singapore might be just as planned
Johor property old hand KSL readies family handover amid market boom
As India and China surge ahead with nuclear energy, all eyes on Asean’s next move