Intuit says its AI now does the work. Its fastest growth is humans charging more for theirs.

$21.4 billion, TurboTax Live at 53% of tax revenue, accountants driving a quarter of mid-market deals. The AI year, decoded for your firm.

Is It Safe to Use AI With Client Data? An Honest Answer for Accountants

What the AICPA confidentiality rule, IRC 7216, and the FTC Safeguards Rule require before AI touches client data, and the controls that hold up.

Congress wants AI audited. The profession that invented the audit should read this bill.

The FRONTIER Act asks for independent audits of frontier AI. A CPA marked up the bill, the AICPA is circling, and the 1933 rhyme is loud.

The agents have started improvising. The people running them are talking.

Six practitioners tell Accounting Today what happens when agents act alone. The fixes they landed on all point the same direction.

The Big Four's audit failures just collapsed. The firms credit the machines.

The 2025 PCAOB inspections show Big Four deficiency rates collapsing. The firms credit AI. Three other explanations deserve airtime.

Executives trust AI with the annual report. Their own audits say the errors already got out.

Workiva's new survey finds executives trusting unreviewed AI while their own audits catch errors reaching boards. The gap has a name.

Your next client will ask an AI to pick an accountant. What will it answer?

Pew's data shows the click collapsing. What AI engines actually cite, and how a small firm stays findable when the answer eats the search page.

The scammers are going synthetic. In one lab, the machine beat the humans.

A small study measured what fraud teams suspected: synthetic manipulation works better than the human kind. The controls that still hold.

The EU's AI law took effect Sunday, minus the part everyone feared. That part has a new date.

What actually took effect August 2, what moved to December 2027, and why credit scoring and hiring AI concern accountants everywhere.

The next AI accounting model will be trained by your competitor

CLA and Digits are encoding the firm's accumulated judgment into a proprietary model. Three questions the announcement leaves open.

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.