Tax Disruption Academy

Succeed in a digital world of tax

Want to brush up on your digital skills?

With the taxman currently developing digital superpowers, tax professionals need superpowers of their own. To avoid nasty surprises and a situation where the taxman knows more about your business than you do, you need to get a handle on your data − now.

About the academy

PwC has responded to this urgent need for new digital skills by creating the Tax Disruption Academy.

In five compact, hands-on sessions, tax professionals working in businesses will get a thorough tour d'horizon in how to work with data. They’ll understand the new tools and how to apply them in their job to extract, understand, analyse and visualise data. They’ll know how to assure data security in a challenging and fast-moving environment. And crucially, they’ll be able to build a solid business case for investment in data technology for the tax function, and plan accordingly.

Sound like what you need to transform your prospects? Check out the sessions.

Sessions

Session one:
Basic automation (rule-based approach)

Common data issues and the tools available for extracting, transforming, blending and leveraging data
Introducing you to ETL tools such as PowerQuery and Alteryx
Automating tasks on a small scale

Session two:
Advanced automation (data-based approach)

How machine learning and artificial intelligence can help you collect insights from data
The principles behind common ML and AI tools, what they can do, and their limitations
Introducing you to natural language processing

Session three:
Fundamentals

An overview on how to get your data
Introduction to basic python coding
Insights into cyber security

Session four:
Advanced visualistion/ Analytics

How to visualise data for meaningful conversations on the basis of your own analysis
The benefits of data visualisation programs, and how to use them to build dashboards and do simple analysis for presentations to stakeholders
Introducing you to software tools such as PowerBi and Tableau

Session five:
The new world of tax

Working with external data
Overview of the current trends in tax supervision and outlook how tax functions must evolve

Methodology

With a practical, hands-on approach, we aim to give an appreciation of the various technical tools available and their advantages and limitations. Tax professionals can then think about how they can be employed in their daily work. - Learn more about Tax Disruption here.