Is Blockchain an Extinction Event for Accountants?

Blockchain illustration using train carsThe make or break question.

By Hitendra Patil
Accountaneur: The Entrepreneurial Accountant

Till today, “work” in the accounting profession involved creating and re-creating the accounting information and then making sense out of it.

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E.g., you take an invoice in a paper form – printed from the data already existing in someone else’s accounting software (private ledger) – and then you re-create the same data by converting (manual data-entry, OCR, etc.) that paper info into data again.