{"id":44573,"date":"2021-03-08T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cybercon1.com\/?p=44573"},"modified":"2021-03-08T03:03:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T08:03:00","slug":"get-started-with-robotic-process-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/08\/get-started-with-robotic-process-automation\/","title":{"rendered":"Get started with robotic process automation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>RPA<\/strong> is the tool I use for automating AP invoice entry to reduce manual keying of data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accounting firms are using up-and-coming technologies with the potential to change the business landscape forever. One technology gaining interest is <strong>robotic process automation<\/strong> (<strong>RPA<\/strong>), a tool that computerizes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalofaccountancy.com\/issues\/2020\/jul\/technology-lessons-from-coronavirus-pandemic.html.\">mundane, repetitive tasks<\/a>\u00a0and completes them far faster than humans could do manually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.pixabay.com\/photo\/2014\/10\/16\/20\/08\/income-tax-491626__340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"662\" height=\"448\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Greg Fritsky, practice director \u2013 intelligent automation solutions at EisnerAmper LLP, spends much of his time evaluating clients\u2019 processes and introducing them to emerging technologies, including <strong>RPA<\/strong>, which is already used extensively by his firm. In one case, he said, <strong>RPA<\/strong> automated a client&#8217;s process that previously took 160 human hours a month to achieve but now takes minutes to complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other large public accounting firms have also adopted <strong>RPA<\/strong>.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www2.deloitte.com\/uk\/en\/pages\/innovation\/solutions\/robotic-process-automation.html\" target=\"_blank\">Deloitte<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwc.com\/us\/en\/outsourcing-shared-services-centers\/assets\/robotics-process-automation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PwC<\/a>, for instance, use <strong>RPA<\/strong> software internally and within clients&#8217; organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RPA<\/strong> &#8220;is something people should be learning and teaching,&#8221; said Fritsky, who is based in New Jersey. &#8220;Accounting is changing and it is changing fast, and this is a tool worth more than a conversation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accounting faculty have taken notice, and many now believe that students should learn <strong>RPA<\/strong>, or at the very least, be familiar with what the technology can do. Students adept at <strong>RPA<\/strong> get &#8220;special opportunities to work in special groups&#8221; within accounting firms, particularly the Big Four, said David Wood, Ph.D., an accounting professor at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah. &#8220;Firms want technical skills, and <strong>RPA<\/strong> right now is one that is in particular demand.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BYU&#8217;s School of Accountancy advisory board, made up of representatives from large public accounting firms, &#8220;encouraged us to put <strong>RPA<\/strong> into the curriculum,&#8221; he added.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?rct=j&amp;sa=t&amp;url=https:\/\/www.journalofaccountancy.com\/newsletters\/extra-credit\/robotic-process-automation.html&amp;ct=ga&amp;cd=CAEYASoTMjk2MTg0NzEzOTk5ODY5MzgxMzIaODc5MTAwZmJiYzcxYjA2NDpjb206ZW46VVM&amp;usg=AFQjCNHCa8yAUhDQKHU8YDGD2GzFKd_sJA\">Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RPA is the tool I use for automating AP invoice entry to reduce manual keying of data. Accounting firms are using up-and-coming technologies with the potential to change the business landscape forever. One technology gaining interest is robotic process automation <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/08\/get-started-with-robotic-process-automation\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[674,628],"tags":[675,629],"class_list":["post-44573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotic-process-automation-processs-automation","category-rpa","tag-robotic-process-automation","tag-rpa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}