AI

QX TaxReady Pairs AI With 500 Tax Specialists

The managed service promises a finished return at a fixed per-return price, with software doing the repetitive work and people checking the result.

AI Budget Overruns Are Becoming a CPA Advisory Job

With 83% of finance leaders reporting higher-than-expected consumption costs, accounting firms are turning their own AI controls into client advice.

Accounting Firms Shift From AI Leaderboards to ROI Controls

Firms are adding token budgets, model-selection training, and usage reviews without scaring employees away from useful AI work.

Levvy Gives Accounting Firms AI Agents With Guardrails

New Claude and ChatGPT connectors can reach firm workflows, while role limits and approval steps are meant to keep the software from running wild.

Clark's AI Clerk Can Chase Audit Evidence at 11 P.M.

Clerks watches engagement status, resumes blocked procedures when documents arrive, and prepares workpapers under firm-set permissions.

A $20 AI Seat Can Turn Into a $500 Bill

Usage pricing is making firm technology budgets harder to predict, even while the price of individual tokens falls.

AICPA's Rise Navigator Turns 7,415 Voices Into an AI Planning Tool

The free member tool answers firm-specific questions using approved research, not the open internet.

AI Is Eating the Work That Trains Junior Accountants

Firms still need future reviewers, advisers and partners. The apprenticeship now has to teach judgment before the software hides the lesson.

CoCounsel Can Now Write Code, Build Workpapers and Check Its Own Math

Thomson Reuters is moving accounting AI from answering questions to producing review-ready files.

Stout Bought the AI Company Already Building Its Workflows

After a year of working together, Flightline will move inside Stout and its founder will become head of AI.

Internal Audit Is Turning Outside Specialists Into Permanent Teammates

Cyber and AI skills are hard to hire, so audit leaders are building outside partners into the operating model.

AI Accounting Benchmarks Show Strong Results, With Important Limits

Month-end close and bookkeeping tests point to useful automation, not proof that software can replace an accountant.

BizBuyData Offers to Buy Accounting Firms' Records for AI Training

New tools also let AI agents write to ledgers and monitor audits, raising different questions about data rights and operating controls.

61% of Accountants Rank AI Among Their Top Ethical Challenges

An ACCA survey finds enthusiasm for AI alongside rising concern about judgment, accountability and confidential data.

AICPA's New AI Audit Guide Keeps Responsibility With the Auditor

The practice aid covers AI inside client reporting systems and the tools audit teams use themselves.

The IRS Commissioner and AICPA Team Up to Tackle AI Risk

Former IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel and the AICPA launch the Council on AI Risk in Tax (CART) to establish responsible AI standards.

The Human Edge: Why Your Judgment Matters More in the Age of AI

KPMG Is Building Startups Inside The Firm

The Big Four AI race is moving from buying tools to building companies.

AI Just Picked A Fight With CPA Fees

The IRS asked a simple fee question. CPA firms heard a much bigger pricing problem.

Congress' AI Bill Still Needs An Accounting Control

A fresh AI oversight proposal is moving toward audits and incident reporting, but the accounting profession knows the record has to exist before the review begins.

AI Just Walked Into The Audit Committee Meeting

AI is moving into public company finance work faster than the review file is catching up.