What is the future development of accounting? Will artificial intelligence replace accounting?

In western countries with mature rule of law and strict law enforcement, accounting has not been completely replaced by artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence can only replace some accounting and budgeting. These are fixed standards and procedures. Management accounting, that is, financial management, is mostly flexible and changeable, and human factors account for a considerable proportion, which cannot be solved by artificial intelligence. Therefore, only low-end and rigid accounting work may be replaced by artificial intelligence; Artificial intelligence is useless for businesses that do not follow standard procedures or have multiple options, including businesses that violate rules to varying degrees. It also requires the human brain to carry out comprehensive and complicated thinking and judgment, and then actually operate.

Nowadays, a lot of propaganda only strengthens the purpose and distorts the matter itself. Don't be misled by false propaganda. Judging from the nature of accounting work, it belongs to civilian personnel and is restricted by many rules (accounting regulations, tax laws, enterprise fiscal and taxation systems, social practices, internal habits of enterprises, etc.). ). The environment, conditions and rules are changeable. Can artificial intelligence solve it? If civilian personnel are all artificial intelligence, then which science and engineering are artificial intelligence, not more powerful? Therefore, people who want to be accountants should not worry about being artificially intelligent. The key is that you can do complex, valuable and non-artificial intelligence business. This is the direction of your efforts.

Because there will be a lot of data processing and bill settlement in accounting work. And this part of the work can be handled by artificial intelligence, but don't worry that artificial intelligence will definitely come, and many simple and repetitive jobs will be replaced.

Instead of worrying about being replaced, think about how not to be replaced and how to reflect personal value in the company. Personal suggestions are as follows: 1, such as obtaining relevant certificates, such as certified public accountants, to improve their professional level.

2. At present, some internal audit accounting or external audit accounting are also very popular, so we can consider developing in this area.

At present, the biggest problem facing enterprises is profit. How to avoid tax for the company reasonably is also a problem faced by the company. Accountants can also consider how to "improve profits" (reasonable tax avoidance) for the company from the financial point of view, so that it can be based on the enterprise and will not be replaced by artificial intelligence.

The above is my personal opinion. If you have different opinions, please leave a message to discuss ~

Management accounting is also called analytical accounting, which cannot be replaced by artificial intelligence, but it doesn't need too many people. Artificial intelligence will impact all industries, especially accounting positions. This is an irresistible trend!

The situation of accounting employment in domestic enterprises and its future development prospect: large demand, poor treatment and development

Occupation: There is the greatest demand for accounting talents in this field, and it is also the biggest employment direction for accounting graduates at present. Many small and medium-sized enterprises in China, especially private enterprises, only need to find "Mr. Accountant" for accounting positions, and do not need professionals with financial management and analysis skills. In addition, most of these companies have fairly rudimentary financial supervision and control systems. Therefore, in the early days of their business, accounting work is generally in the hands of their cronies (relatives). Only when the company is big and the financial complexity is beyond the control of cronies (relatives) will it recruit "outsiders" to keep accounts. There is a possibility that the company you choose has great growth, and as an old hand, you can share a piece of the cake after the company grows. But more often, when you go in, you will keep an account, and when you leave, you will only keep an account. You can learn simple financial supervision and tax avoidance methods at most.

Financial management is also an experienced and knowledgeable profession, and the training opportunities provided by enterprises are different from listening to teachers in schools, which is more practical and applicable.

Judge whether you have any advantages in this respect, such as unique insights, mastery of macro and micro economic information, and whether you have relevant contacts and mentors.

So will humans be replaced by artificial intelligence?

As far as accounting work is concerned, some people say that switching to management accounting is like mushrooming in society, and it is necessary to learn management accounting and so on. Personally, I think if I have a skill, I won't starve to death! Some data entry in accounting work will be replaced by artificial intelligence, which is not as simple as entering vouchers, but the thinking concept of accounting management and accounting personnel will never be replaced.

Without electricity and computers, is it difficult for accountants to get off work? Manual accounts are now replaced by computer accounts, and accountants are laid off? Do programmers have to consult people who specialize in accounting logic thinking and accounting?

Of course, we should also have a sense of crisis and improve ourselves. One skill in hand, travel all over the world.

In the past few years, I have contacted some R&D institutions related to accounting artificial intelligence. Let me talk about my opinion.

Accounting will not be replaced for a long time to come, but some basic work related to accounting will be replaced.

Give a simple example. In many agency bookkeeping companies, in the past, it was basically the limit for one accountant to manage 10-20 sets of accounts and one person to manage 20 sets. But now an accountant can manage more than 100 sets of accounts, which is because many functions are integrated, such as "one-click tax return" and "automatic identification of invoice information". Of course, the functions of financial software are also increasing.

Give another example. Many large domestic enterprises, especially large group enterprises, have started to build financial centers. In a group enterprise, there were more than 3,000 financial personnel in the whole group before the completion of the financial center, but less than 100 people were engaged in full-time accounting treatment and capital exchange after the completion.

It can be seen that many work contents of accounting defined in the past will be replaced by accounting institutions or financial enjoyment centers in the future.

So, where is the future development of accounting?

Although many basic tasks can be replaced by artificial intelligence now, artificial intelligence, another major function of finance, can hardly be replaced, that is, financial data analysis and business feasibility analysis from the perspective of finance.

The CEO of many large enterprises will basically be CFO for a period of time before taking up their posts. The reason is that the control of enterprise operation needs not only the understanding of business, but also the support of data analysis, and most of the data sources will come from finance.

Of course, in addition, such as financial compliance, capital operation, investment analysis, financial risk management and control. Artificial intelligence can't replace people in the short term, because these are closely related to specific customers and businesses, not just to analyze data that happened in the past.

But if you are the most basic accountant, you may face unemployment, but others have the ability to learn and learn more advanced knowledge, so that you can find a job that is difficult to be replaced in the short term.

Your question is very good, interesting and forward-looking.

With the development of society, artificial intelligence will definitely replace people's work more and more, especially some repetitive and digital work, accounting is one of them.

If you are an accountant now, you must have dealt with the bank. Have you found that many of the bank's businesses, which were originally done by hand, are now intelligent? For example: deposit money, withdraw money, check accounts, and queue up to call numbers. I had to insert the card and enter the password. Now all you have to do is bring a face. In the next step, the bank's field staff will be reduced and smarter. What does this mean? Explain that artificial intelligence can really do many things, even things we can't imagine.

What about the accounting industry?

The development trend of accounting industry must be towards artificial intelligence. We can even imagine that in the future, everyone and every unit will have their own code. Everything you spend money in and out, even eating bowls of instant noodles in the street, will be recorded through this proprietary code, and big data will be automatically summarized to generate various reports. There is no need for manual accounts, no need for paper accounts, everything is electronic, and it is a big database.

Therefore, as an accountant, we must pay attention to this information, study, keep up with the development of the times, and master the latest trends and skills so as not to be eliminated.

Of course, there is no need to worry now. First, the artificial intelligence of accounting takes some time. Second, artificial intelligence can only do data analysis, not rational analysis. The role of accounting may be strengthened in the rational analysis of data in the future. Just like doctors in hospitals, testing instruments will give patients a lot of data. However, doctors will still make a rational comprehensive analysis based on various data and the actual situation of patients. It is difficult for machines to make such an analysis.

In any case, standing at the forefront of the industry and the times, you will never fall behind and will not be eliminated.

Speaking of artificial intelligence, it is really developing rapidly now. It seems that both white-collar workers with mental work and blue-collar workers with manual work are being replaced by computers. So it is normal to worry that accounting will be replaced by artificial intelligence.

Why? Accounting work, specifically accounting work, is easily replaced by artificial intelligence because of its unified rules and high repetition. In the future, with the rise of accounting service centers, accounting will be in batches and fragmented. Traditional accountants with a lot of artificial intelligence may face unemployment.

Just like the emergence of computers and handwriting workers, a large number of handwriting workers have been eliminated, but the emergence of computers has provided a lot of new jobs far beyond imagination, such as the platitudes of mechanization and steam engine era 200 years ago.

Therefore, the arrival of artificial intelligence is both an opportunity and a challenge, so you should always strengthen your study, and so on, so that you will not be eliminated by society, because you have become a senior technical talent.

"I was very scared at first. I thought about it carefully and I showed off for a long time." An accountant read this article.

Here's the thing.

With the intensification of digital technologies such as big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain and Internet of Things, the topic of "machine replacing or defeating human beings" has also been increasingly discussed, and technology has indeed brought challenges to all walks of life. Thinking accounting babies will ask, "Will accounting face unemployment?" This is indeed a problem worthy of a good grasp on the forehead.

Because digitalization is terrible! Xinhua news agency has an intelligent editor, so you don't have to think about the article; Various AI hosts are tireless on the screen; Driverless cars provide round-the-clock service for people. ......

The question that many people are afraid of is:

"Does the future world still need us?"

Speaking of the accounting industry, State Taxation Administration of The People's Republic of China recently vigorously promoted taxpayers to implement the electronic policy of special VAT invoices. Once again, the alert accountants clearly realize that the era of electronic accounting files has come in an all-round way! And what is the deeper problem behind this? Isn't it the change of the times and the revolution of the accounting industry?

Accounting, a profession with high requirements and promising career prospects, has a 97.6% chance of being replaced by robots, which is really surprising. However, this is nothing new. Keynes has long analyzed that there are two kinds of human unemployment, one is technical unemployment and the other is structural unemployment. Structural unemployment is due to the disappearance of a certain industry, and technical unemployment is due to technological progress, so some industries have been changed.

At present, the view that financial work is replaced by technology has been concluded in academic and practical circles, depending on how it has evolved in the long river of time.

What jobs will technology replace accounting?

Where there is a market, there is killing!

Now many enterprises focus on the market behind "technology replaces accounting work" and have developed many intelligent machines and program systems. The bookkeeping, tabulation, reimbursement and bill review of grass-roots finance have all become minor problems, and successive enterprises have been constantly studying how to solve more complicated and advanced accounting problems.

In fact, as early as 20 18, Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young, the four major accounting firms in the world, successively launched financial intelligent robot solutions.

Well, a profit-seeking enterprise will never spend manpower and time doing a lot of repetitive work!

So, how does technology replace the basic work of finance?

The first step is to turn the physical objects collected by the accountant into numbers. In addition to the existing electronic data, paper documents such as bills, texts, forms, emails, QR codes, etc. In the process of enterprise operation, it is stored in digital form through technology. Accounting babies, your's hands are not sour for three days, and the manual workshop is about to close.

The second step is to process the data collected above! Manual work always takes a lot of time and energy to tabulate and process data. In order to avoid mistakes, several people are needed to repeat the data sorting work. With a reliable algorithm, the machine no longer needs manual audit after processing the data. The machine is also responsible for completing a series of bookkeeping work including automatic auditing and automatic bookkeeping.

The above two steps are simple to operate and have been put into commercial activities by practical circles. Where can the world of technology go?

Combining artificial intelligence technology with cloud computing and big data can also improve the working ability of financial management through artificial intelligence technology, and move towards intelligent finance on the basis of digital transformation of financial services.

Blockchain technology can turn any blockchain data, transactions, tangible or intangible assets into programmable software systems, markets and assets. This not only provides decentralized transaction mode and data security for enterprises, but also provides solutions for automation business in accounting field.

Then, the Internet of Things can obtain multidimensional data and promote the interconnection of everything. The network layer transmits and processes the information obtained by the perception layer quickly, accurately and safely through access devices, the Internet and cloud computing platforms, while the application layer provides users with specific services by using the analyzed information. The intelligent upper limit of accounting service is unimaginable!

Where will the accountants go?

Rain is coming and the wind is getting stronger and stronger. It is good for accountants to have a sense of crisis. Only those who keep a sense of crisis, embrace change and are always ready can turn "unemployment" into "career" and crisis into opportunity.

Accounting babies should think carefully about what aspects of finance they are good at: industry, capital, taxation, funds, securities, mergers and acquisitions, and management. Make in-depth study after determining the development direction, and strive to become a senior expert in a certain field. An excellent accountant must have a broad vision of accounting and management. If an accountant can only keep accounts, in the past, he may only be an old accountant from a small accountant all his life. Now, only facing unemployment.

Digitalization makes accounting even more powerful, because it liberates the eyes and hands of financial babies and makes them pay more attention to their brains. Accounting has always been "high demand and high development, low demand and low development", with huge variance.

Under the wave of digitalization, accountants need to have digital thinking. To realize the digital transformation of finance, they should master modern technology, process and analyze data quickly, and then play a role in enterprise planning, decision-making, control, evaluation and value creation.

At this stage, accountants need not panic. After all, the popularization of technology and the implementation of national policies will take time. The white paper issued by Huawei and IDC, an authoritative international consulting service organization, pointed out that at present, the digital transformation data of enterprises only involves the management data of enterprises 10%, and 90% of the data is still in a "deep sleep" state. In other words, although the wave of digitalization has arrived, there is still a long way to go before the real unemployment, and we still have time to embrace the digital accounting world wholeheartedly.

So, friends, the future has come, and it's time to work hard!

The specific views are as follows:

1. The essence of artificial intelligence is artificial intelligence, which cannot surpass people. For example, people have feelings, but machines can't have feelings. People can make tools, but machines can't make tools actively.

2. Accounting is irreplaceable, but the connotation of accounting will change.

3. People analyze the whole business through finance, and the machine is difficult to replace in the short term, because the data represents the result of history, and everything in the future is uncertain.

Everything has qualitative and quantitative parts, and it is impossible to express all the situations with data. Therefore, artificial intelligence is limited, and accounting cannot be completely replaced.

It is said every day that accounting should be intelligent, so don't set up this major at all.