The future of finance is changing, and this will have a major impact on the audit profession. Verifying a company’s assets exist. Confirming the ownership and accuracy of balances held on a balance sheet. The fundamentals in any field can be hard. They are often the critical foundations upon which a higher skillset is built.

Recently, we participated in an Alternative Insights Hangout to share our experience of engaging with auditors (our users) during Covid, but also, to listen and learn how audit firms themselves have found the last 4/5 months of engaging with their clients.

One big change with modern financial services is that clients can open accounts and send money without ever having met an adviser face to face. The speed and ease at which accounts can be opened with different institutions is greatly welcomed when it comes to user experience. Even at a corporate account level, the options that are available for how a CFO might move...