Big Four firm EY is using artificial intelligence to leverage the increasing flood of data to provide deep insights to audit clients.

Super Bowl LI offered us many surprises this year, not the least of which was the New England Patriots’ incredible comeback. However, as a practicing CPA and attorney working exclusively in tax representation, I was taken aback with something else, as I’m sure many tax practitioners were: H&R Block, Jon Hamm and IBM’s “Watson.”

Automation and smart technology are great, BlackLine's Therese Tucker says, but they cannot replace the emotional nuance of strategic accounting.

The developers plan to partner with accounting firms and payroll service providers.

The platform also now supports multiple currencies.

The technology learns a business's habits over time, then begins to automatically categorize invoices.

The AP clerk job as we know it is about to disappear — but it will be replaced with something more valuable.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning will be big in 2017.

H&R Block is out to wrest back market share from its online tax-prep rivals with such aggressive measures as free services and interest-free advances on refunds—oh, and plunking a supercomputing Jeopardy star down on the desks of its 70,000 tax preparers.

The provider of tech solutions to legal firms adds the accounting vertical to its capabilities.

The technology is built on proprietary artificial intelligence.

As the cloud hype dissipates, more practical realities are taking hold.

MyFirmsApp, a U.K.-based technology development company, has gotten the go-ahead to use the technology powering Amazon’s Alexa voice-based assistant to develop artificial intelligence apps for accounting.

Firm highlights its latest advances in audit, tax, analytics and consulting at its New York offices.

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