The Accounting Podcast hosts break down CBIZ's stock decline, Starbucks killing its AI inventory counting system, and Microsoft cutting AI tool costs for engineers—signaling challenges for AI autom...
Doeren Mayhew, a top 50 accounting firm, acquired Griffin Global Technologies, an AI automation and data analytics consultancy, to expand its technology and automation capabilities for clients.
GruntWorx released an on-demand course teaching tax firms how to design automated workflows that balance process efficiency with human judgment, addressing a core pain point in modern tax practices.
Wolters Kluwer and OpenAI deepen partnership to integrate domain-grounded generative and agentic AI into accounting and tax software, targeting professional decision-making and productivity gains.
Abacor, an AI assistant for accountants, debuts a Model Context Protocol connector enabling tighter Claude integration for accounting workflows.
Suralink rolled out a new AI platform featuring five agents designed to boost efficiency for accounting firms and clients, with native integrations for Claude and Microsoft Copilot.
Auditoria launches SmartResearch and AP Vendor Watch to automate accounts payable operations with AI-powered intelligence for finance teams.
Karbon introduced Kai, an AI coworker tool designed specifically for accounting firms, at its Karbon Next conference in San Diego.
IPA 100 firm Doeren Mayhew ($170.4M FY24 revenue) acquires Atlanta-based GRIFFIN Global Technologies to expand AI, software development, and data analytics capabilities for accounting clients.
New multi-agent framework DuMate-DeepResearch addresses hallucination and verification challenges in deep research tasks through recursive search and rubric-grounded reasoning, with direct applicat...
AI agents are fundamentally restructuring audit and compliance workflows by overcoming legacy banking system constraints, with multiple model types emerging to handle modern accounting challenges.
Bots For That CEO explores replacing headcount with AI context windows in accounting firms, part of a series on building AI-native accounting practices.
BrightPay launches Oscar, an AI employee onboarding assistant, with early adopters reporting adoption and workflow benefits in payroll and HR functions.
Sage UK adds PaperLess invoice processing automation to its marketplace, enabling SMBs to streamline accounts payable workflows via AI-powered document recognition and processing.
Blake Oliver reports from Black Ore's inaugural AI Tax Summit in Times Square, where tax leaders from Big 4 firms and regional practices gathered to discuss whether autonomous AI can transform tax ...
Blake Oliver explores how AI agents completing accounting work in minutes instead of hours threaten traditional hourly billing models, forcing firms to reconsider pricing strategies.
End Close, a Y Combinator W26 company, leverages AI agents to automate the month-end close process for accounting teams, reducing manual reconciliation and journal entry work.
YC-backed startup Payna aims to automate accounting and payroll tasks using AI agents, joining growing cohort of AI-native accounting automation startups.
Developer releases free AI agent tool for automated auditing of Shopify e-commerce catalogs, leveraging 1.2M public product captures to identify data quality issues and inconsistencies.
Digits reports frontier AI models now beat human accountants at transaction classification, a core bookkeeping task, raising questions about why month-end closes still take weeks despite AI capabil...