This document discusses the impact of digitization and disruptive technologies on accounting and assurance practices. Key points include: - Automation of accounting functions through bots and use of APIs for business communications will reduce human intervention and paperwork. - The rise of artificial intelligence, analytics, and IoT will transform how accounting data is collected, organized, and validated in real-time. - Future assurances will rely more on continuous monitoring, predictive analysis, and real-time auditing using tools like data mining and algorithmic risk assessment. - Accountants must build capacity to work with new digital technologies like blockchain, cryptocurrency, big data, and artificial intelligence to provide services in an increasingly digital business environment.

1. Digitization of Accounting
and Assurances
CA. Dhruv Seth
dhruv@sethspro.com
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3. DISRUPTION

4. Impact of
Disruption
- Augmented reality might make
aircrafts redundant
- Taxi’s are already today called Ola / Uber
- Retail now mean Flipkart / Amazon
- Consumers are now producers (Ebay /
Olx)
- Paper currency to Math currency
- 3D printing to replace construction
- Algorithm based stock trading

6. Impact on
Accounts
- BOT’s to automate accounting
- Documents would turn into Meta data
- IOT to automate supply chain
- Receipts would become redundant
- API’s would become the mechanism
through which business communicates
- Crowd funding to replace staple finance
Lower investments in Auditing

8. INSIGHT
KNOWLEDGE
INFORMATION
DATA

9. BUSINESS
Artificial
Intelligence
TRANSFORMATION
Currency
Customer
Analytics
Supply Chain

10. Bot’s in Accounting
Reduction in human intervention
Automated Statutory compliances
Interaction through voice recognition
Automated financial statements validation
Automated process based on triggers

11. 1
2
3
4
6
5
Developing
AI
Geography
redundant
Data to Insight
True & Correct
ASSURANCE
Bot’s in Assurance
100% coverage
Real Time
audit

12. Analytic
STEP 1 Evaluate
Trend
STEP 3
Data
Validation
STEP 5
Query Records
STEP 2
Ratio
Analysis
STEP 4
DEPLOYMENT of AUDIT PROCESS
Red Flagging and
reporting
STEP 6

13. FUTURE ASSURANCES
Future
Cybersecurity
IOT
Data
Mobility

14. FUTURE PROOF
Future
Big Data
Continuous
Predictive
Agility

15. CAPACITY BUILDING
Digital
Quotient
Adopting Artificial
Intelligence
Developing
Products
Understanding
Digital Trade

16. CRYPTOCURRENCY ???
PGBP v. Capital Gains ?
Cash & Cash Equivalents OR Other Assets ?
Treatment – AS-3 or AS-13 or AS-26 or AS-30
Currency v. Property v. Software
Is it liable to GST ?

17. The fight would not
be of the big and
small
……
It would be of the
fast and slow

18. THANK YOU !
CA Dhruv Seth
Partner
dhruv@sethspro.com
Offices
New Delhi Lucknow
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Vasant Kunj – 110070 Jopling Road - 226001
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