How accounting firms can use AI to automate workflows
Accounting is already process-shaped: PBC lists, close checklists, review sign-offs. That is exactly why AI helps when it runs inside the process and hurts when it freelances. With the AICPA reporting accounting graduates down 6.6% in 2023-24, the rote work has to be carried by a tighter process rather than more hires. The model extracts and drafts; the preparer and partner own the numbers.