The work of accounting consultants has and will continue to evolve in connection withdigitalization. Sweden, alongside other countries, initiated a lockdown to minimizeCovid-19’s spread of infection. Despite having to work from home, accountingconsultants were able to perform their jobs without hindrance because of theprofession’s digitalization opportunities. The purpose of this study is to investigatehow digitalization has affected accounting consultant’s work during and after thepandemic, a qualitative research method in the form of interviews will be used toachieve the study’s purpose. The empirical material is based on twelve semi-structuredinterviews with accounting consultants in Stockholm city. A structured process of opencoding was adopted for the thematic analysis.The study’s results show that accounting consultants who were affected by thepandemic, tend to have a positive attitude towards the digitalization of their work.There are however some disadvantages such as the loss of socialization and the threatof possible technical difficulties. The conclusions drawn from the study’s results arethat the benefits of digitalization in this field of work outweigh the disadvantages, andthat an accounting consultant’s work will in the future consist more of economiccounseling as opposed to performing accounting services.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-480103 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | chammas, patrik, Bahrami, Sina |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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