Enrolment

Author

Edward Brooks, Founder of The RPA Academy

Overview

Automation can ensure a competitive advantage for public accounting firms and management accountants working in business and industry. Forty percent of manual accounting tasks are predicted to be automated by 2020. With advanced preparation and strategy, rollout can be timely and result in significant hours saved.

Developed by Edward Brooks, founder of the RPA Academy, this CPE course covers the characteristics, benefits, risks, and challenges of RPA. In this course, Brooks reviews the RPA landscape, how this new technology is transforming businesses, and how it will ultimately affect your role as an accounting and finance professional. Finally, this course will help you start to develop your own strategy and implementation plan for RPA. Take a proactive approach, so you can ensure the changes resulting from RPA don’t negatively affect your corporate culture.

Topic discussed

• What is a robotic process
• RPA history and drivers
• The RPA market — size, growth forecasts, landscape
• How RPA fits in with other digital initiatives – ML, big data, AI, and so on
• Business value of RPA
• Effect of automation on people
• How to get started

Learning Objectives

• Recognize what RPA is.
• Identify processes suitable for RPA.
• Recognize how RPA is transforming businesses.
• Indicate the business value of RPA.
• Identify key considerations in getting started with RPA.