Course Content
Why Should You Attend
The fourth industrial revolution is occurring, which is enabling businesses to operate in significantly different ways; enabling technologies include artificial intelligence, internet-connected physical devices, cyber-physical systems, nanotechnology, and biotechnology.
Professional accountants and accounting practices, procedures, and processes will need to adapt. Education and training of professional accountants also needs to adapt. Humans augmented by machine capabilities, much like an electronic calculator, enabling a human to do math quicker, will empower knowledge workers who know how to leverage the use of those machines
Three primary enabling technological innovations are driving this significant change to the current accounting practices, processes, and methods: XBRL-based structured digital financial reports, knowledge-based systems and other applications of artificial intelligence, and blockchain-based distributed ledgers
While it is difficult to precisely predict the productivity gains that will be realized, initial information shows that the productivity gains will be very, very significant
Course Outcomes
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Create value within any business as a Financial Professional who understands the impact of technologies from the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in your role as an accountant/ auditor.
- Identify and assess key concerns with regard to the future of AI systems.
- Identify and assess key challenges to the widespread application of blockchain.
- Identify business processes suited to AI applications and implementation.
- Develop a business strategy aligned to business objectives with respect to 4IR.
- Argue moral and ethical behaviour in business and in the public interest with regard to implementing new technologies that are emerging from the 4IR.
- Combine judgment and decision-making acumen with digital acumen for the successful implementation of new technologies within relevant areas in business, as it relates to financial professionals.
- Identify areas of Human-Machine Collaboration to Create Financial Reports
Target Audience
Accountants, auditors, trainee accountants, and other finance professionals wanting to bring their digital skills up to speed
Venue & Dates
Venue: Cape Town
Date: 21 – 24 July 2026
Course Fee
R15 999.00
