The Disruption of the Accounting Profession: New tools and methods | Peatix tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2019-11-01T01:55:41+08:00 Peatix Rutgers Business School Asia Pacific The Disruption of the Accounting Profession: New tools and methods tag:peatix.com,2019:event-592583 2019-02-25T19:00:00SGT 2019-02-25T19:00:00SGT About the topic: The Disruption of the Accounting Profession:The audit process is heading to major disruption. This workshop, directed by the world leading research institution in accounting information systems (AIS), does an introductory survey of emerging methodologies that can serve both managers and auditors to understand and plan individual and corporate preparation for this change.Topics of the talk include:- Big data and Internet of things- Audit Procedures and analytic usage- Full population testing (MADS)- Audit Automation (RPA, IPA)- Text Mining- Process Mining- Incorporating Exogenous Data to Audit (social media, weather, etc)- AI and Machine Learning Applications in Audit and Imagineering the new auditParticipants will be directed to sources and videos to continue their education on these subjects. Agenda: Registration & Networking: 6.30pm - 7.00pmTalk: 7.00pm to 10.00pmLight refreshments will be provided at the event. About the Speaker: Dr. Miklos. A Vasarhelyi is a KPMG Distinguished Professor of Accounting Information Systems and Director of Rutgers Accounting Research Center and Continuous Auditing & Reporting Lab (CAR Lab) at Rutgers University.He is credited with developing the original continuous audit application and is the leading researcher in this field. At Rutgers Business School, Dr Vasarhelyi heads the CAR Lab, which works on projects for such leading companies as Siemens, KPMG, Procter & Gamble, AICPA, CA Technologies and Brazil’s Itau-Unibanco. Also, he leads the RADAR (Rutgers AICPA Data Analytics Research Initiative) project supported by the 8 leading CPA firms, AICPA, and CPA Canada.Dr. Vasarhelyi, has been chosen AAA Professor of the Year, ISACA’s Wasserman Award, AICPA Educator of the Year and has over 200 articles published, 21 books, and chaired over 45 dissertations. He has also ran executive programs for several large organizations such as J&J, AT&T, KPMG, etc in many countries. He has been senior visiting scholar at the SEC and works regularly with several accounting and audit regulators.Dr. Vasarhelyi, who received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from UCLA, has published more than 200 journal articles, 20 books, and directed over 40 Ph.D. theses. He is the editor of the Artificial Intelligence in Accounting and Auditing series and the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting. He received his MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in economics and electrical engineering from the State University of Guanabara and the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He taught at USC, Columbia and worked at the Bell Laboratories.Dr. Vasarhelyi teaches Weblife and Management Decision Making for the Rutgers Executive MBA program in Singapore.