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Well there's a reason it hasn't been replaced. Accountant's job is far from easily automated. Companies use different types of documents, make different kind of papers. Accountant not only needs to blindly write and rewrite numbers, but also understand and comprehend the intent and that includes some knowledge of business logic even in some cases. Companies like oracle have tried to make automation tools for accounting for decades, but manual work is still required absolutely everywhere. Unless everyone adopt some kind of universal standard and fill same papers in same way, automation won't happen there, not on large scale at least.