In recent years, blockchain technology has evolved far beyond bitcoin and is now being experimented in a broad range of business applications. Nevertheless, blockchain technology is still emerging and has not yet been proven at enterprise scale, which is an essential challenge to blockchain's transformative potential.
It is important for the assurance profession to stay abreast of developments in this technology. The focus of the seminar is to explain blockchain technology and how it could potentially impact the financial statement audit, possible new assurance services and new roles for the CPA auditor in the blockchain ecosystem.