This strategy allows firms to scale rapidly, control overhead, and expand their impact without increasing what they own.

Those are daunting pay gaps for most organizations, but accounting leaders have other levers they can pull in order to hire and retain talent.

Plus, Rightworks rolls out three new cloud solutions; AI tax prep solution Filed publicly debuts; and other accounting tech news.

Accounting Today has extended the submission deadline for our annual VAR 100 survey from May 23 to May 30, giving value added resellers an extra week to send their entries.

IT auditors who know a lot about AI can now show it through a new certification, as the ISACA now offers an AAIA, or "Advanced in AI Audit," credential.

Compliance professionals at Grant Thornton will be making use of the improved CompliAI platform, infused with generative AI to enhance service delivery.

Accountants can turn the audit playbook into an AI assurance framework that policymakers have been groping for.

Top 100 firm BMSS announced an investment in Knuula, an engagement letter and client documents software provider. The investment came after implementing Knuula themselves over the past year.

The Big Four firm added new agentic AI capacities, including a model that proactively identifies areas of value leakage and acts inside the tools to fix them.

While CPA firms far and wide have made major technology investments over the years, the vast majority of accountants say they're not being used to their full potential.

Despite security enhancements from Microsoft, CPA firms are likely to disable the controversial Recall feature in Windows 11, which uses AI to create a precise record of user activity.

Plus, OneStream announces new AI agents, other solutions; Suralink rolls out request-to-test solution; and other accounting tech news and updates.

What will be the role of the junior associate once AI takes over all the simple tasks that generate the experience needed for more complex ones?

These days, it takes an AI village to develop an accountant.

Zoho's customer relationship manager, previously only for sales teams, has been modified and enhanced with AI to become CRM for Everyone.

The new payments solution promises to be the first step in a broader move into financial services.

Plus, faking resumes with AI, the return of Microsoft's Recall, and seven other developments in technology.

Sage announced a series of new features and enhancements for its latest release of Sage Intacct, many of which center around AI.