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New technologies have penetrated all areas of daily life, significantly changing the way we work and live. Accounting is no exception to the rule either. AI, Cloud, Big Data and Blockchain have entered this field as well, fundamentally changing the way this profession carries out its activity. A good part of the entry-level positions in accounting have disappeared, their tasks being taken over by AI. Now accountants can no longer remain stuck in the routine, having to adapt to new technologies. The future belongs to those who will understand how it works and can capitalize on the opportunities offered by technology. The accounting profession will have to be dismantled into its component parts, part of the tasks to be assigned to the machine, and then the remaining parts to be reassembled into a new profession of the future. This will have the purpose of advising the management from a financial accounting point of view, based on the accurate, complete and current data provided by the machines, in order to give the organization a strategic advantage in relation to the competition.

The goal of this research aims to look at the role of the intelligent technologies used in the Industry 4.0 framework such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotic process automation (RPA), internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, and the impact of these technologies in resources susteinability and environmental protection, as one of the most important concerns. Integration of information systems with smart technologies, that can be found in the industry as modeled components carried out on economic processes, is being one of the most important factors for any company’s management in order to remain competitive in an increasingly sophisticated business. The ways in which Industry 4.0 influences the modelling of economic processes is a decisive factor in how a company's management decides to adopt such applications aimed at helping the company achieve its goals. Any application adopted by the company has decisive influences in the subsequent approach to the way of working related to a department, division, so the way it is adapted must be one that helps in the subsequent processing of the information necessary for the development of the business itself.