Ameryn Seibold was tasked with manipulating the Excel data that the subprime auto lender regularly sent to its financiers.

Wolters Kluwer announced plans to launch a new platform specifically for accounting firms transitioning from compliance-based work to an advisory-first model.

AI should enhance human potential, not replace it. For finance teams, this means a new era of confident decision-making, deeper insights and strategic leadership.

AI has made many people more efficient, productive and effective. While this includes professionals like accountants, it also includes scammers, fraudsters and cyber-criminals.

Xero plans to shift third party app developers from a revenue share commercial model to a new tiered-pricing structure based on API usage and connections.

A significant proportion of firms have yet to implement new audit technologies and methods, citing poor training, lack of quality data, lack of systems access and lack of funds as the primary reasons.

Plus, Ramp touts 1099 solution; Certinia's winter release includes automation, insights, operations; and other accounting tech news and updates.

Accountants need to invest in technological change that will attract the next generation of accounting talent and reshape the economics of the field.

Accounting's most influential name the profession's biggest issues.

As part of this year's Top 100 Most Influential People survey, Accounting Today asked, "What is the most important issue currently facing the accounting profession?"

Steve Lockshin and Michael Kitces tied what they view as some mistaken assumptions around fees to the competitive need for more estate planning services.

Business executives are most worried about the risks from cybersecurity and third parties, but see opportunities for growth in the next few years.

Congregations are enabling automation to make stewardship easier to verify and faster to report on.

Successful companies in the future will rely on employees with an entrepreneurial spirit.

Accounting Today has issued a call for submissions for its 2026 Top New Products report.

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board officials are sounding a cautious note about the spread of artificial intelligence and private equity at audit firms.

Leading companies are reframing accounts receivable as a strategic driver of customer loyalty and capital performance.

Pilot's Local Partner Program provides software and automation capabilities, as well as advisory services and sales enablement tools, to independent bookkeepers and accounting firms.

In collaboration with Kintsugi, Vertex and CPA.com are giving accountants an AI solution for sales tax compliance.

Blindly accepting AI outputs, setting poor AI controls, failing to update processes when software changes: many AI problems unfortunately begin with the human, but it is also humans that can prevent them.