New and emerging technologies and accelerated digitalisation are radically changing the future of audit. KPMG is committed to transforming the future of audit by serving the public interest and bringing value to our clients through continuous innovation.
Leveraging the strength of our network, we’ve launched KPMG’s All eyes on: The future of Audit campaign that reveals how we believe audit may be fundamentally transformed over the coming years. This series of articles will provide insights on topics such as artificial intelligence, technology assurance including cybersecurity, big data, continuous auditing and ESG, which are trends all shaping the future of audit.
Explore the trends
All eyes on: Transforming audit with AI
In the next decade, audits will be fundamentally transformed through artificial intelligence which seeks to automate procedures and enhance audit quality.
All eyes on: Continuous auditing
Continuous or more frequent auditing will likely become more prominent for the auditors in the future and should allow auditors to spend more time on crucial judgments.
All eyes on: Leveraging big data
As Big Data variety, volume and velocity increases globally, unstructured data remains a key challenge for which optical character recognition and natural language processing technologies can be applied to read and interpret text from images.
All eyes on: Technology assurance
The digital transformation requires new ways of providing assurance with the use of technology such as cyber security.
All eyes on: ESG assurance through blockchain technology
ESG assurance and the benefits of emerging technologies, such as blockchain enables traceability of scope 3 GHG emissions through the entire supply chain of an entity.
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Emer McGrath
Partner, Head of Audit
KPMG in Ireland
