Accounting firms have spent decades developing talent through experience. Junior professionals perform foundational work, learn from mistakes, and gradually develop the judgment required to handle more complex assignments. AI is beginning to change that process. As routine accounting and audit work becomes easier to automate, firms have an opportunity to improve efficiency and give professionals … Read more
An invoice can pass its approval checks and still be part of a duplicate payment pattern. A journal entry can be valid on its own but unusual when compared with thousands of others. A financial workflow can operate exactly as designed while risk develops beyond the transactions it was built to evaluate. These are familiar … Read more
The workflow completed. Every approval passed. The numbers reconciled. And the financial risk went undetected. That is one of the more difficult challenges emerging as AI agents and automated workflows take on a greater share of financial execution. A transaction can satisfy every programmed rule and still contribute to a pattern of activity that threatens … Read more
I have spent enough time around AI to see a strange pattern. The organizations most eager to move quickly are often the most frustrated by governance. Governance can feel like another review, another policy, another reason an AI initiative cannot move forward yet. I think that gets the relationship backward. Convincing leadership and teams to … Read more
AI is changing the division of labor in finance. Work that once required people to create, classify, approve, reconcile, and route financial transactions is increasingly being handled by automated workflows and AI agents. SAP, Oracle, Workday, and other major systems of record are embedding these capabilities directly into financial processes. That creates an obvious opportunity … Read more
