Technology has wrought many a change in your average accounting firm - completely revamping tax prep and bookkeeping - but it has had much less impact on the audit function over the past two decades. That looks likely to change in the near future, however, as the capabilities of technology evolve to the point where it can be more usefully applied to audits, and as software vendors, regulators, corporate clients and the leadership of the accounting profession begin to realize the huge opportunities that will likely become available.
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