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I am not an accountant, but isn't the main job of accountants to prevent fraud? I would imagine that computing advancements would make help fraudsters as much as accountants, so we'll still need accountants.
Also, the healthcare industry is notoriously immune to progress. Most hospitals haven't even digitized their records, though they've had the technology for three decades.
Is it? I thought it was keeping books, reconciling statements and errors, preparing statistics and summaries, and complying with legal requirements.
Accountants solely as forensic investigators - that sounds like a very skilled, relatively unusual kind of definition of accountant, the sort of difficult-to-automate job that would be left after computers ate all the other jobs accountants have held since time immemorial.
But don't worry, I'm sure advances in machine learning and things like IBM Watson will eat that job too; if not in the next decade or three, then the next century or two.