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$552 million in accounting AI: which workflows got the money
Goldman Sachs backed audit. Accel backed accounting agents. Lightspeed is rebuilding firms.
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July 4 opens new client savings window: here's the list
Section 530A savings accounts open July 4. Here's the client list, the $1K deposit, and the setup.
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Four IRS rules for AI just became your responsibility
OPR Alert 2026-19 is out. Four obligations every tax practitioner must meet, effective now.
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85% of execs can't track their own AI spend
Boards said yes. The governance framework never followed. Here's the CFO accountability gap.
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EY cut junior auditors. Big 4 grad listings down 44%.
Deloitte UK cut 175 the same week. Mid-size firms need to update their audit job descriptions now.
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KPMG shipped 40 fake citations. Anyone checking yours?
Plus: Suralink's full audit AI is live, one control gap remains and SaaS margins are breaking down.
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69% plan new billing models. Fewer than 5% have one.
AI cut the research time. The billing model didn't follow. Here's what 1,000 tax pros said.
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MassMutual's one rule drove a 30% AI gain
They set a 12-month cap with defined KPIs. If the benchmark wasn't hit, the vendor was out.
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The AI gap isn't about tools. It's about tier.
The gap isn't which tools you use. It's whether you redesigned workflows or just layered on top.
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One in fourteen finance teams made AI work. Here's how.
Gartner asked 183 CFOs about AI impact. The answer is a 77-point gap that isn't about the tools.
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Crypto basis errors: IRS already flagging mismatches
Brokers filed 1099-DAs with zero cost basis for transferred crypto. Here's what CPAs need to do now.
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Your firm uses AI. It has no policy for it.
Thomson Reuters surveyed 1,700 accounting pros. Most use AI daily. Most firms have no written rule about any of it.
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Your firm's AI usage rate may be measuring noise
KPMG's 75% usage target got gamed. Here's how to build a metric that means something.
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42% of finance teams can audit their AI decisions
Three in four finance teams run AI. Fewer than half can explain what it decided or why.
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BILL.com cut 700 jobs. Check these 3 things now.
Vendor risk in your AP stack, a Big Four AI signal and the judgment gap no one is talking about.
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Copilot reconciles accounts: what to test this week
Two Copilot Finance Agents went live in Excel this week. Here's what to activate before month-end.
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Intuit just changed the rules for every CPA firm
ProAdvisor ends in 2027. Check certifications, pricing and client subscriptions before then.
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Meta cut teams using AI. Did they prove it first?
Meta cited AI to cut headcount. CFOs who cannot show the same proof are in a weaker position.
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The 3 CFO metrics that prove AI is working
Xero's agent builder is here, AICPA audit rules just changed and seat count is the wrong ROI metric.
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39% more errors when finance teams run 4+ agents
BCG measured what happens when finance teams run 4+ AI agents at once. The error rate is 39% higher.
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Who watches the AI that watches your taxes?
126 systems and no governance plan. The IRS's AI audit expansion has outrun its oversight structure.
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PCAOB puts audit AI on the standards clock
The regulator flagged audit tech as a research priority. Standards are coming — document now.
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Uber burned its AI budget in 4 months: the CFO fix
Finance teams think seat counts are the win. Uber shows why that breaks before the year ends.
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Anthropic built 10 AI agents for finance teams
Claude for Financial Services is the most specific AI-finance spec sheet Anthropic has published.
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Finance teams waste 13 hours weekly checking AI
A Sage and IDC study puts a number on how much trust finance pros don't have in their AI tools yet.
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The IRS wants to do your tax prep for you
The agency already has your income data. A bill would let filers use it before you see it.
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AICPA just made AI literacy a CPA requirement
The AICPA Skills Accelerator is the first formal AI curriculum for CPAs — here's what's in it.
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QuickBooks Copilot: 70–90% accurate, one hallucination
We ran it through a real month-end close. Here's what Copilot got right — and where it invented data.
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271 bugs found: AI is better at hacking than defense
Anthropic's Mythos found 271 Firefox zero-days — 12x more than Claude Opus. Mozilla is patching fast.
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$500 to strip AI safety filters. Cleaning training data doesn't help.
New research shows safety guardrails can be stripped for under $500. Scrubbing training data first doesn't change the outcome.
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AI raises your output, lowers your skill ceiling
MIT and Wharton studied this pattern across 30+ papers — and the lag is where the danger lives.
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Two AI Labs Restricted Their Best Models This Week
OpenAI and Anthropic both decided their newest AI is too dangerous to release openly. Four stories from a week when capability concerns finally made labs blink.
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