An API solution lets accounting firms provide essential business filing services to clients in all 50 states.

Firms' AI strategy typically follows one of two paths: "optimizers" that use the technology to improve workflows or "transformers" who use it to redesign how the firm delivers value.

Plus, Cherry Hill Advisory launches set of free AI tools; Datarails launches finance ticketing system; and other accounting tech news.

Nick Steiner is planning to build on the firm's Bay Area and Silicon Valley roots, while offering AI consulting for clients.

With AI taking on a growing share of routine tasks, accounting firms want more than just productivity from their partners.

Caseware announced upgrades that allow users to bring its AI agents into Microsoft Excel, along with an AI-first evolution of its Client Requests feature.

Paystand announced the general availability of its agentic finance suite, which brings AI agents into accounts receivable, spend management and reporting on its B2B payment network.

In recent years, artificial intelligence has rattled the enterprise software industry, raising doubts about the fundamentals of SAP's business model.

When a client starts sending fake invoices to vendors and customers, the instinct is to reset the password and turn on multifactor authentication. That's not enough.

A growing share of prospects now ask AI questions like "who is the best CPA firm for a small business near me" and act on the three or four names the model gives them.

Plus, LogicGate 2026 release include GRC agents, lifecycle management solution; Deel launches retirement solution; and other accounting tech news.

While many companies are insisting employees return to the office, accounting and payment platform Bill is going the opposite direction, announcing that it is going to become a remote-first workplace.

The common assumption is that closing the AI skills gap means teaching accountants new technical skills. But the real gap is structural: whether a firm has redesigned its governance, roles, and workflows around AI.

Accountants tend to view hallucination control as a governance challenge first and a technical challenge second. Essential to this is human review.

AI's infamous tendency to occasionally generate false information, also known as "hallucinations," remains untamed by even the world's largest accounting firms.

Accrual, generally known as a tax and practice management solutions provider, has acquired the technology and business of AI-guided bookkeeping and accounting solutions provider Puzzle.

Armanino announced that the leaders and staff of AppWrap have joined the firm, dramatically expanding its NetSuite practice.

Accounting firms are currently adopting multiple tools to automate internal processes, streamline client interactions and identify operational bottlenecks.

Ernst & Young is investing $100 million to provide bonuses and incentives to its U.S. professionals who develop future-focused skills, especially the human kind.

Boomer Consulting announced the launch of its new SoftwareClarity platform, touted as a centralized software marketplace specifically for CPAs, available to everyone as a free resource.