Puzzle announces AI Suite for month-end close; MyCPE One announces CPE Wallet for automating CPE management; Sam's List rolls out Concierge Launch; and other accounting tech news and updates.

The firms that benefit most are not treating AI as a replacement for the accountant's judgment. They are treating it as infrastructure: the parts that should have been automated years ago finally being automated.

If things continue at this pace, it won't be surprising if CPA firms have a 40-to-one agent-to-human ratio in the near future and need a new operating model.

AI-coded apps are changing the dynamics between software vendors and accounting firms, but the market impact so far has been small.

Financial reporting and automation solutions provider Inscope announced a new release that uses agentic AI to produce a review-ready disclosure checklist.

AI has raised the bar for what counts as good service in clients' eyes, meaning the humans will need to up their game, perhaps through the use of AI.

AI is shifting the economics of build-versus-buy as more firms turn to apps created not by software vendors but by code generators such as Claude, Replit, or Cursor.

The billable hour was always just a stand-in for something harder to measure. AI has finally made that obvious.

The time saved by using AI is being eroded by the time spent verifying its outputs.

Jordan's Revenge; generative AI; faulty assumptions; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

New features and updates include a revamped Reconciliation Rules engine.

For most of the last 40 years, running a tax and accounting firm was a peacetime job. That's not the case anymore.

This year's top resellers in the accounting space say they're facing greater expectations on a number of fronts.

Accounting Today's annual ranking of the top firms in accounting software reselling.

Ernst & Young is expanding its use of artificial intelligence to make the tax preparation process more efficient, while also recognizing its limitations.

Plus, CCH Axcess adds complex document ingestion and interpretation; TaxStatus launches Planning Observations to automate discovery; and other accounting tech news and updates.

The IRS against which your clients filed last year is not the same agency reviewing their returns today.

Your accounting firm's clients are counting on you to understand fraud risk in the Age of AI.