AI tax startup Black Ore hosted a series of discussions on the growing role of AI in making tax preparation and planning more efficient.

CFOs are pushing aggressively to digitize finance, but finding talent shortages and skill deficits — not technology — are now the biggest barriers to progress.

While leaders express confidence in their own data to fuel their AI initiatives, they have also experienced material financial losses due to poor data governance, but this has not blunted efforts to implement AI.

A new ACCA survey finds that accountants and financial professionals are interested in engaging in environmental and social issues.

The new agent-based AI-based tax platform focuses on automating business tax workflow and debuts after about half a year in early access.

AI governance is awaiting its Ferdinand Pecora, counsel to the Senate Banking Committee in the 1930s, who built the evidentiary foundation for every protector system that followed.

Plus, Paychex announces WISE AI Platform; KPMG creates chief product officer role; and other accounting tech updates.

The alliance with Anthropic will embed Claude Cowork into KPMG's global client delivery platform, beginning with tax and legal clients.

Audit solutions provider Caseware launched an intelligence and orchestration layer operating across the engagement lifecycle.

The Institute of Management Accountants announced the availability of its new AI in Finance Micro-credential as part of a larger rollout of similar credentials for specialized finance and accounting competencies.

As affordable accounting services become the new standard, the key to thriving will be brand affinity, loyalty and admiration, starting with client experience.

The Top 25 Firm is deepening its investment in an AI-driven accounting workflow platform, which includes a multiyear relationship to build AI audit solutions.

Employees were asked to offer up their own tax returns as training data for the company's Grok chatbot, promising a $420 payment as incentive for doing so. Two months later, those payments still haven't materialized.

The discourse surrounding the future of accounting has largely centered on automation, AI and digital transformation. Yet many firms face a more immediate issue.

Will the profession wait for the AI equivalent of 1929 before applying what it already knows? The answer begins with examining what the current AI assurance landscape provides and what it does not.

Technology is not replacing accountants. But it is changing what accounting work involves, and the change is further along than most realize.

Plus, Xero announces XeroForce custom AI agent builder; Emburse releases new AI purchasing agent; and other news and updates from the accounting tech world.

Executives from the Top 100 Firms and Regional Leaders share their approaches on adopting and implementing artificial intelligence.

Intuit announced new features and enhancements for its Intuit Enterprise Suite platform for mid-market businesses with more complex needs.