Do Accounting Students Know What’s Coming?

By Joseph Parker Students today are faced by a shifting business landscape. Choosing a reliable career is an increasingly difficult challenge and those students considering accounting might wonder, “Will my job in accounting be replaced by a computer in the next 10 years?” To calm students’ fears, Dr. Vijay K. Vemuri, a professor of accounting at Quinnipiac University, and Shailendra Palvia, a professor of management information systems at Long Island University, recently wrote “armchair theorizing [has] suggested drastic decline in employed bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks due to widespread use [of] accounting and tax filing software. On the contrary during … Continue reading Do Accounting Students Know What’s Coming?