Big Data Analytics: Opportunity or Threats for the Accounting Profession

Abstract

The rapidly changing business environment has created the demand of real time data analysis. The volume of data is increasing day by day which requires to be filtered as per the need of users.The rise of transformative technologies such as robotic process, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI), automation & machine learning has certainly raised the concerns among many accountants about what their profession will look like in the future. Therefore through this paper it has been tried to analyse and develop some insight on the topic of “Big Data analytics: Opportunity or threats for accounting profession.â€