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How Generative AI is Changing Workflows: Insights from Paul Z 

SHARE: NASBA’s 116th Annual Meeting featured keynote speaker Paul Zikopoulos (Paul Z), Vice President of Technology Group Skills Vitality and Enablement at IBM. Zikopoulos discussed artificial intelligence and how it increasingly contributes to the workplace and profession.   By definition, artificial intelligence, more commonly known as AI, leverages computers and machines to mimic the problem-solving and…

Overview of AI from FRC

SHARE: Robo-accounting technical advisors might be showing up by 2034, a new report from the Financial Reporting Council’s Financial Reporting Lab projects. The January 2019 report entitled “Artificial Intelligence and Corporate Reporting: How Does it Measure Up?” explains, ”If [accounting] standards themselves were made machine readable, ML [machine learning] and NLP [natural language processing] could…

2018 World Congress Held

SHARE: Close to 6,000 delegates attended the World Congress of Accountants in Sydney, Australia, November 5-8. The largest delegation came from Australia, 2,725, but the second largest delegation came from Nigeria, 749, despite an 18-hour trip from Lagos to Sydney. At the WCOA the mutual recognition agreement renewal with the Chartered Accountants Australia/New Zealand, as…