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AI is transforming financial reporting and auditing
AI is transforming financial reporting and auditing and is set to dramatically grow with varying levels of speed around the world and across industries – helping businesses create smarter and more joined-up information flows with better identification and response to risk and a much greater ability to detect anomalies and outliers.
KPMG’s ‘AI in financial reporting and audit: Navigating the new era’ study of senior executives and business leaders across 1800 companies globally confirms the importance of AI in financial reporting and auditing and clarifies, it is not hype. AI is changing auditing and businesses expect auditors to lead the way.
Our research conducted finds that we are standing on the cusp of a genuine financial reporting revolution: moving from the ‘digital age’ to the ‘AI age’ in which nothing will ever be quite the same again. Read our recent report to find out more.
AI in financial reporting and audit: Navigating the new era
Financial reporting leaders’ AI expectations for their companies and external auditors
Key facts
64 % of companies surveyed expect auditors to have a role in evaluating their use of AI in financial reporting, providing assurance and attestation over their AI controls.
57 % of companies said they will be implementing gen AI for financial reporting over the next three years.
Nearly 72 % of companies surveyed are piloting or using AI in financial reporting.
In three years, that is expected increase to
99 % of companies.
100 % of companies said their boards have taken strategic action regarding AI.
AI now accounts for 10 % of the IT budget and is set to rise significantly in the next year.
Country highlights
Among regions, surveyed companies in North America are moving at the fastest pace (39 percent), followed by Europe (32 percent) and Asia Pacific (ASPAC) (29 percent).
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