Liew Chin Tong urges accountants to embrace multidisciplinary skills as AI reshapes finance profession
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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 5 — Deputy Finance Minister Liew Chin Tong has urged accountants and finance professionals to be multidisciplinary as the positive and negative impacts of...
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He said AI would displace some less sophisticated jobs held by accountants but would probably create new ones requiring deeper human judgement, fewer technical skills and more value-based decision-making.
“It is in this context that I would say that Malaysia’s positioning in this less innocent and more complex era is to focus on ‘the three middles’.
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