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Accountants and auditors are financial doctors; We’ve just given them penicillin

In a presentation at South by Southwest March 21, 2015, How Bitcoin will Disrupt Accounting and Auditing, LibraTax CEO Jake Benson summarized the impact of blockchain technology as follows:

"Accountants and Auditors are financial doctors.  We've just given them penicillin."

I did a post on digital distributed ledgers a while back. That is worth reading through.  Also, watch this video by Alex Tapscott, in particular between minutes 8:30 and 11:00 in the presentation.

I now understand specifically how accountants made the top 5 list of those who will be losing their jobs to automation.

More to come...

Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 at 08:32AM by Registered CommenterCharlie in | CommentsPost a Comment

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