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The Institute of Management Accountants discussed the pros and cons of artificial intelligence with officials, including the new leader of the PCAOB.

AI severs confidence from correctness. Finding the areas that require scrutiny is much harder precisely because the output looks excellent everywhere.

Among other things, the IRS's preliminary AI guidelines call for firms to exercise due diligence on AI outputs and pass AI-related savings on to clients.

The AI Native Accounting Foundation announced the winners of its first-ever AI Native Accounting Awards.

Tax amnesty programs; protecting your practice; unidentified tax payments; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi declared today that, going forward, accountants are the customer not the channel and consequently they will be serving them as the customer.

Whitman Advisory introduced valueMyCPAFirm.com, an AI-powered tool that provides insights on a firm's market value.

Firms that rely on the old-fashioned billable hour are in the minority compared to fixed fee, value pricing and other models.

AI has become the No. 1 way to fake receipts for expense fraud. Before then, people generally relied on specialized templates from sketchy websites.

Firms everywhere are searching for ways to seize first-mover advantages, or at least prevent competitors' AI use from becoming disruptive.

The IRS has been offering live chat applications and automated chatbots, but their incorrect answers could prompt taxpayers to file incorrect tax returns.

AI can be a helpful starting point, but accounting professionals and other specialists are still essential for making an informed decision about entity type.

Starting with AI, a number of new developments are making the professional landscape feel stranger than ever.

The traditional spreadsheet model of financial planning is officially broken. It did not break quietly, and it was not broken by a single event.

Firms are sourcing new solutions from field staff to expand their tools and upskill their professionals. But they aren't just throwing together programs and calling it a day.

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The Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee report calls for sustained IRS funding, human-centered design, fraud prevention and preparer regulation.

Here's why every AI-powered tax initiative starts with a document problem — and what to do about it.

Professionals are not only overwhelmed because they work long hours, but because they operate within unstable systems.