Accountants and Auditors
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Automation risk
High Risk (61-80%): Jobs in this category face a significant threat from automation, as many of their tasks can be easily automated using current or near-future technologies.
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User poll
Our visitors have voted that it's probable this occupation will be automated. This assessment is further supported by the calculated automation risk level, which estimates 71% chance of automation.
What do you think the risk of automation is?
What is the likelihood that Accountants and Auditors will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?
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Growth
The number of 'Accountants and Auditors' job openings is expected to rise 5.6% by 2032
Total employment, and estimated job openings
Updated projections are due 09-2023.
Wages
In 2022, the median annual wage for 'Accountants and Auditors' was $78,000, or $37 per hour
'Accountants and Auditors' were paid 68.4% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $46,310
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Volume
As of 2022 there were 1,402,420 people employed as 'Accountants and Auditors' within the United States.
This represents around 0.9% of the employed workforce across the country
Put another way, around 1 in 105 people are employed as 'Accountants and Auditors'.
Job description
Examine, analyze, and interpret accounting records to prepare financial statements, give advice, or audit and evaluate statements prepared by others. Install or advise on systems of recording costs or other financial and budgetary data.
SOC Code: 13-2011.00
Resources
Can ChatGPT pass an accounting interview?
Here's a video from Certified Accountant Kostadin Ristovski on Chat GPT and accounting, where he asks it questions which an accountant should know the answer to, he's not impressed!
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While accountants are already required to complete continuous education requirements annually, their curriculums will now need to be updated to place a greater emphasis on the management of AI and quality assurance processes to ensure that these systems are performing at a level that meets International Accounting Standards.
Without accountants' oversight, AI-generated results cannot be reliably verified for accuracy, completeness, reliability, and relevance. With the increasing volume of financial data, the demand for accountants will rise to validate datasets used by AI models for decision-making. Furthermore, there will be an increased need for accountants to evaluate the reliability of outputs produced by AI models.
Our society cannot rely solely on the elites' technologies to determine whether they are paying their fair share of taxes. The government will always have to pursue the wealthy to ensure they pay their fair share of taxes, while individuals will always seek legal ways to avoid paying taxes. Advanced technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence will enable individuals to find more innovative ways to evade taxes, making it difficult for authorities to prosecute those who are guilty of tax evasion.
For this reason, accountants and auditors will always be required to verify whether the technologies that are being used to evaluate whether individuals and entities are tax compliant are accurate.
Society cannot solely rely on Big Tech to evaluate financial statements, as they have proven themselves to be untrustworthy in many situations. For example, numerous antitrust investigations have been launched against them, revealing unscrupulous behavior. It is questionable whether society would be willing to place all their confidence in the hands of a few Tech billionaires, who will be willing to prioritize their political, corporate, and financial interests over society's well-being.
In conclusion, relying solely on Tech Billionaires and other elites to pay their fair share of taxes and evaluate financial statements poses significant perils. It is crucial to have independent human auditors to ensure accuracy and reliability and prevent conflicts of interest that may arise if the elites desire to further enrich themselves at society's expense.
2. The AI everyone is familiar with right now will get worse over time as they pull bad information, and produce more bad information, which becomes a self-reinforcing cycle. Lazy people producing bad articles by using lazy methods (AI) to write for them, will put out more bad information for the ChatGPT's to train on, making the next most likely word the system pulls up the bad information rather than the good. Frankly, it seems more likely that these systems were as good as they'd ever be before people started abusing them. These companies aren't going to pay experts to identify between good and bad medical or legal information. They're not going to pay to identify good and bad accounting either.
Sorry, future enthusiast tech bros.
Automation is increasing in data entry end of accounting while there are softwares that can generate & process audit trails. Moreover there are several CAATs that can perform audit to large extent.
All one will need in future a person-in-charge for managing the automated accounting process & a small team for auditing the same.
Therefore, it’s unlikely. Maybe if a huge global catastrophe happen then it may force this change among all countries.
The tax code is a series of if-then-else statements. Some of these are complicated but at their base, that's all they are. Computers excel at evaluating these and AI/ML are good at applying decision tree models to situations like these.
Tax accountants will counter saying that automating the tax code will free them up to better serve their clients. However, most accountants aren't trained to do that and couldn't sell air to a drowning person. They will be replaced by intelligent sales support systems and professional sales people.
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