The four major accounting firms have successively launched financial robots. 2065438+In March 2006, Deloitte announced the introduction of artificial intelligence into the fields of accounting, taxation and auditing, and launched its products in the first half of this year. PricewaterhouseCoopers began to implement the domestic enterprise financial robot plan last year, and Sinochem International Financial Robot Project was officially launched in August this year.
What can financial robots do? PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte believe that the main tasks that financial robots can do at present are tasks with high repeatability and low skill requirements such as auditing and collection. For example, reconciliation with different account numbers of many banks, summarizing and combing the data of weekly and monthly reports, and checking the difference of value-added tax by using data sources such as internal financial system, external tax system, input tax receipt management system and last month's declared retained tax.
Simple entry, bookkeeping and reimbursement may not require manpower in the future. Financial robots run fast and work 24 hours a day, which can greatly improve work efficiency. "Due to the short time to market, financial robots are still in the stage of customer matching and application running-in, and a large number of potential users are still waiting to see." Liu Qin, vice president of Shanghai National Accounting Institute, said.
Today's financial robots are not intelligent and are still in the process automation stage. "Data standardization and process automation are prerequisites for financial intelligence." Liu Qin said that although the accounting industry is restricted by standards and has strong policies and rules, it is not satisfactory in data standardization. In addition, due to the differences in business needs of enterprises, it is not easy to standardize financial processes.
"Some companies' financial processes are usually based on experience. What are the laws represented by experience and need to be abstracted. " Pang, senior manager of PwC China Management Consulting, believes that available data and clear process rules are the first stage of the application of financial robots.
In terms of data and process standardization, enterprises have had some practice, and financial management software such as Kingdee, UFIDA and Inspur are widely used in the accounting industry. In recent years, some large companies have centralized accounting business in different regions through financial enjoyment centers, unified accounting and reporting, and strengthened the standardization of data and processes. "The enterprise financial center is an ideal place to apply financial robots." Liu Qin said.