AI is burying the IRS in comments. Here's how to still be heard.

A new GAO report says the IRS cannot tell AI near-duplicates apart, and Treasury declined its fix. What it means for your comment letter.

The audit regulator is rewriting its five-year plan. AI is the argument it cannot settle.

A rebuilt board, 71 comment letters, and a year of public argument over AI in the audit. What the PCAOB's next five years mean for you.

Nearly half of finance teams spend 15+ hours a week checking AI.

A new IDC study for Sage, of 2,000+ finance leaders, names the cost nobody prices: the verification tax. Why AI moves the work instead of deleting it.

Private equity bet accounting was a fortress. AI is lowering the walls.

Money and machines are remaking who owns your firm at once, including a $1 billion, OpenAI-backed AI roll-up. Why the two forces may not agree.

KPMG published an AI report. AI faked 40 of its 45 sources.

The firm that sells AI assurance got caught trusting AI it didn't check. What that means for every firm now leaning on it.

Best AI Accounting Tools 2026: An Independent Guide

An independent, no-affiliate guide to the best AI accounting and bookkeeping tools in 2026: what's worth using, who each one is for, and what to avoid.

AI turned the billable hour into a trap. Most firms are raising prices anyway.

When AI cuts a 20-hour job to 5, billing by time means your revenue falls as your work improves. The fix isn't discounts. It's a new unit of value.

Oracle just named AI in an SEC filing. The sentence matters more than the number.

Everyone's quoting 21,000 job cuts. For accountants, the story is that AI is now a disclosure, and the SEC is watching.

The general ledger is being rebuilt for AI. Read this before you switch.

A new class of "AI-native" ledgers is turning the monthly close into an always-on process. The money is enormous. The lock-in is the part nobody prices.

74% of pros use AI weekly. 6% of clients think it's working.

A new Thomson Reuters report puts $143 billion at risk over the AI "value gap." The data is real. The fix it is selling is the catch.

The Big Four are building AI armies and shrinking their graduate classes.

EY wired agents into the audit, the four spent billions, and graduate intake fell up to 29%. The profession's training academy is automating its own trainees.

Will AI replace accountants? An honest, data-grounded answer

The accountant shortage's AI fix has a trap nobody's pricing in.

The work AI is best at is the work that trained the next generation. Here's what that means for your firm.

Ramp just came for the monthly close

A fintech reportedly valued above $40 billion built an AI that runs the close and learns your firm's playbook. What's shipped, what's vendor math, and the clause to think about.

Xero and Intuit just moved AI into your clients' books. Read this first.

What's actually shipped, what's still hype, and the controls every firm needs before AI touches client data.

The co-founder of Bench is back. No humans this time.

Two human-plus-software bookkeeping companies failed in 14 months. The money's answer is to remove the humans. We have one question.

Botkeeper is dead. Here's what's left.

We tested the 9 AI bookkeeping tools still standing. Four are worth your time, three need a long look, two are still unproven.