The Future Is Now: How to Help Your Team Navigate Digital Disruption

Accounting and finance teams sometimes resist change. After all, accuracy is essential in this field, and major changes to processes and the introduction of new ways of working could create additional stress and lead to costly mistakes. However, resisting change is futile in an age of continuous and rapid digital disruption. Research conducted for Benchmarking Accounting and Finance Functions: 2018, a special report from Robert Half and Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF), suggests that the pace of technological change in accounting and finance organizations is accelerating. Many functions are expanding their use of automation and cloud computing -- a move often motivated not only by a desire to increase efficiency but also to keep pace with broader digital transformation initiatives underway at the company.