You have recently started your audit internship at Principled Partners (PP). Your friend, who has recently graduated with a Bachelor of Information Technology degree and has just started working at a large insurance company, says to you that you have chosen the wrong career because audit jobs are under threat from game changing technologies such as Robotic Process Automation, Blockchain, and Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, and says auditors will not be relevant in the very near future.

REQUIRED:

(a) Do you agree with your friend? (Yes / No). (1 mark)

(b) Why do you agree or disagree with your friend? (3 marks)