Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Cassandra Estep, Assistant Professor of Accounting at Emory University Goizueta Business School. 

As companies have grown more complex over the last few decades, so have their financial statements. In response, auditors have had to bring in various specialists in areas like IT, legal and valuations to help them understand these complexities. Estep started her career as one of those IT specialist at a Big Four firm. Now as an academic she researches how specialists can best work together with traditional auditors, what happens when these relationships break down and how new tech tools are changing the audit profession. 

In this interview she shares her recent research results, offers tips for both frontline auditors an audit leaders about getting the best results from their collaborations with IT specialists, her predictions for how quickly the profession will embrace AI, what skills auditors should hone to cope with its tech-filled future and her own path from prospective math major to IT auditor to academic.

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