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Remarks at the Investor Advisory Committee Meeting
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (571+ words) Before I continue, I must note the customary disclaimer that the views I express here today are my own as Chairman and do not necessarily reflect those of the SEC as an institution or of my fellow Commissioners. To begin,…...
Caseware rolls out Excel add-on, client request AI
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (284+ words) Audit and risk solutions platform Caseware announced new upgrades that allow users to bring the company's AI agents into Microsoft Excel as part of the most recent expansion of its Caseware Verity AI offering, first introduced in May. The company…...
Paystand agents now generally available
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (163+ words) Digital payments solutions provider Paystand announced the general availability of its agentic finance suite, which brings AI agents into accounts receivable, spend management and reporting on its B2B payment network. "Agentic finance does not mean giving software unlimited authority," Almond said....
When a client's mailbox is sending fake invoices, the password reset is only the beginning
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (188+ words) Sooner or later a practitioner gets the call. A client's vendors, or the client's own customers, are receiving invoices and payment-change requests from an address inside the client's company, and nobody there sent them. The messages read correctly. They reference…...
Bill goes remote-first
1+ week, 2+ day ago (300+ words) "The remote population proved the model works: hiring stayed strong, performance stayed strong, culture stayed strong, for half the company, for years. So instead of continuing to manage the divide, we realized the better path was to build one team…...
The AI skills gap in accounting is structural, not technical
1+ week, 3+ day ago (408+ words) Since generative AI entered mainstream conversation, disruption has dominated the headlines. Will automation eliminate accounting jobs? Will finance teams get leaner, smaller and further removed from the strategic table? For many of us, AI has stopped being an isolated pilot…...
False info, real problems: Can accountants tame AI hallucinations?
1+ week, 4+ day ago (693+ words) Despite the rise of stringent governance and rigorous control structures, the infamous tendency of artificial intelligence to occasionally generate false information, also known as "hallucinations," remains stubbornly untamed by even the world's largest accounting firms. What becomes clear then is…...
False info, real problems: The human in the AI loop
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1104+ words) In our first article, we explored how AI-generated false information, also known as hallucinations, have increasingly been making their way into firm work products. Here we explore how some firms control specifically for this risk. Accountants tend to view hallucination…...
Using AI to decode client behavior
1+ week, 4+ day ago (813+ words) AI bots like ChatGPT are already widely used for drafting personalized emails, engagement letters, proposals and other client-facing content. But when used strategically, they can help CPA firms analyze client feedback, identify recurring concerns, understand changing expectations and spot patterns…...
Ship versus swarm
2+ week, 3+ day ago (737+ words) An advisory firm owner told me something a few weeks ago that has been stuck in my mind ever since: "Kyle, most firms are aircraft carriers. They're too slow. We're more of a pirate ship." He was joking, mostly. It…...