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Christian Klein

Christian Klein

CEO of SAP

Jun 17, 2026

5:07
Let's get started at the beginning from audit and then the next steps or the first baby steps into tax maybe.
5:13
Yeah, that was actually maybe not that standard or classical approach.
5:19
I mean, I started at PwC in Frankfurt and worked there for four or five years and it was really a great experience because I really had cool clients and the company is awesome and I still like it very much.
5:36
When I thought about what is the career at an auditor, I mean, there's this classical approach that you have this audit certificate that you're an official auditor.
5:50
And there is also this two-step approach in the past where you then also said, okay, first you take up with the tax advisor, the chartered one, and then go the next step to the auditor.
6:03
And that was the time when I saw that audit itself is something great because you learn a lot.
6:11
So that was really a rich experience I had, a strong learning curve.

29 MINS LATER

34:58
Um, have you, um, any suggestions if people in the audience would struggle to get budgets unlocked to invest in AI and his suggestions there, how to approach it?

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