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Some accountants may be worried about AI taking over their jobs, but perhaps working alongside AI could be just as hazardous to an accounting career.

In a new report, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants says there’s been a dramatic increase in the number of accounting and finance professionals who rank AI use as the leading ethical challenge.

LiveFlow is an automated financial reporting and FP&A platform designed for accounting firms, CFOs, and finance teams. You connect your accounting systems such as QuickBooks Online, Xero, or Netsuite directly to Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, and the system automatically updates financial models, consolidation reports, and dashboards in real time. You can build custom financial…

CPA ALBERTA began a three-part Introduction to Generative AI for CPAs certificate program on August 19, giving accountants hands-on exposure to current tools and practical accounting use cases. The program emphasizes both automation and the profession’s role as trusted advisers.

AI models are faster, more accurate, and far cheaper than accountants at structured bookkeeping tasks. That’s the finding of a study by Mercor in which 12 licensed CPAs with an average of five and a half years of experience worked through simplified tasks from the APEX Accounting Benchmark. Eighteen months ago, the best models still…

Chittaranjan Chattopadhyay, President, ICMAI, said the framework comes at an important stage in the evolution of the Indian insurance sector. Representative Image/iStock Advertisement

New entry-level certificate provides hands-on practice in Microsoft Excel and Copilot, giving accounting and finance professionals a practical starting point with AI

CANADIAN accounting firms are moving toward a consequential new stage of automation. Canadian Accountant’s September 2 article on AI Digital Employees describes systems that can take responsibility for defined elements of accounting work rather than simply answer prompts. That shift can produce major productivity gains, but it changes the governance question. Firms now need to decide…

The aged workforce, coupled with graduates who are not adequately prepared for practice, is compounding skill shortages across Australia’s accounting sector that has been grappling with surging demand since the changes to capital gains tax (CGT) and negative gearing were announced in May’s Federal Budget.

Several accountants, auditors, bookkeepers, and others in the profession have been named as finalists for the coveted Women in Finance Awards, now in its 10th year.