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American Institute of CPAs president and CEO Barry Melancon discussed the use of artificial intelligence, bots and other advanced technology, along with the future role of accountants, at the AICPA’s Spring Meeting of Council in Washington, D.C., on Monday.

Association members will have access to in-person classes and hands-on cognitive learning.

The firm plans to develop cutting edge financial technology solutions on SAP’s Leonardo platform.

The cloud performance management solutions provider has also formed partnerships with Workiva and Prevedere.

H&R Block’s use of IBM’s Watson technology this past tax season is only one sign of the increasing involvement of artificial intelligence in tax preparation, with even Big Four firms like PricewaterhouseCoopers making major investments in AI for servicing their tax clients.

The cloud hosting company provides a solution for firms that haven’t switched to cloud-based software yet, but want the benefits offsite servers offer.

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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.