Impacts of industry 4.0 on the accounting and auditing services sector
Published: July 23, 2026
Abstract
This study analyzes the Fourth Industrial Revolution's (Industry 4.0) impacts on the accounting and auditing services sector, such as data collection, data processing and analysis, information provision, and data storage. The study points out the challenges facing the application of Industry 4.0’s advances in the accounting and auditing services sector, such as technological risks, lack of high quality human resources.
Keywords
the Fourth Industrial Revolutioncloud computingaccounting.
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