{"id":397700,"date":"2026-04-14T09:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/397700\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T09:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:45:08","slug":"baker-tilly-ireland-moving-into-more-medium-to-larger-audit-assignments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/397700\/","title":{"rendered":"Baker Tilly Ireland moving into more medium to larger audit assignments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is a challenging enough environment out there without the need to talk ourselves down&#8221; &#8211; Vivian Nathan, Chief Operating Officer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakertilly.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baker Tilly Ireland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ACTIVITY<\/p>\n<p>The firm has grown steadily over the past year in both Cork and Dublin and we are seeing a continued steady stream of FDI work coming in.<\/p>\n<p>Our international connection to <a href=\"https:\/\/businessplus.ie\/tag\/baker-tilly\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"7026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baker Tilly<\/a> is a very strong calling card.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of seeing change, I would say that we are moving into more medium to larger audit assignments.<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPMENTS<\/p>\n<p>Our parent firm MHA listed on the London Stock Exchange last April, which has proven to be very successful for the whole group.<\/p>\n<p>It has also been a unique selling point for us in looking to further expand and attract staff as a very real alternative to private equity funds.<\/p>\n<p>We have also expanded our audit and advisory services considerably in Technology, Infrastructure, Pharma and Financial Services sectors.<\/p>\n<p>In addition we are in the process of moving to a brand new office in Dublin over the next few months that will see us upgrade our facilities significantly and aid our goal of being the employer of choice.<\/p>\n<p>TECHNOLOGY<\/p>\n<p>The main factors include technological advancement (particularly AI), regulatory and compliance pressures, evolving client expectations, talent challenges, and increased focus on ESG and sustainability reporting<\/p>\n<p>For our firm we would envisage that AI would improve efficiency and reduce routine workload.<\/p>\n<p>For example: AI tools assist in analysing large volumes of transactions quickly; draft financial summaries and management reports can be generated and refined rather than written from scratch; and risk-based audit tools highlight unusual patterns requiring professional judgment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/vivian-2.jpg\" alt=\"Vivian Nathan\" class=\"wp-image-192933\"  \/>Vivian Nathan, Chief Operating Officer at Baker Tilly Ireland<\/p>\n<p>OUTLOOK<\/p>\n<p>I would be very positive and I think that is important \u2014 it is a challenging enough environment out there without the need to talk ourselves down.<\/p>\n<p>We have the people, the skills and drive to make it work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It is a challenging enough environment out there without the need to talk ourselves down&#8221; &#8211; Vivian Nathan,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-397700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}