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Caseware announced upgrades that allow users to bring its AI agents into Microsoft Excel, along with an AI-first evolution of its Client Requests feature.

Paystand announced the general availability of its agentic finance suite, which brings AI agents into accounts receivable, spend management and reporting on its B2B payment network.

In recent years, artificial intelligence has rattled the enterprise software industry, raising doubts about the fundamentals of SAP's business model.

When a client starts sending fake invoices to vendors and customers, the instinct is to reset the password and turn on multifactor authentication. That's not enough.

A growing share of prospects now ask AI questions like "who is the best CPA firm for a small business near me" and act on the three or four names the model gives them.

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The common assumption is that closing the AI skills gap means teaching accountants new technical skills. But the real gap is structural: whether a firm has redesigned its governance, roles, and workflows around AI.

Accountants tend to view hallucination control as a governance challenge first and a technical challenge second. Essential to this is human review.

AI's infamous tendency to occasionally generate false information, also known as "hallucinations," remains untamed by even the world's largest accounting firms.