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Last Day ITR Checklist: 8 Things You Must Check Before Submitting Today
1+ week, 6+ day ago (558+ words) Before submitting the return, verify your PAN, Aadhaar details, name, date of birth, mobile number and email ID. Any mismatch in these details can create problems during ITR processing or verification. Also make sure you have selected the correct assessment year…...
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…...
Rogue agents: when AI won't listen
3+ week, 6+ day ago (187+ words) But they also demonstrate that while agents can certainly go awry, they can also be corrected and set back on the right path. We asked AI specialists throughout the accounting world to share their personal experiences when an AI agent…...
How to teach ownership
4+ day, 48+ min ago (518+ words) How do you get an employee to go from task-doer to accomplished-completer? How are firms conveying the importance of ownership to their staff and showing them how to go about it? Leaders want team members to see a project through…...
Can AI ruin professional education?
2+ week, 4+ day ago (459+ words) Artificial intelligence is defined as the capability of computer systems or algorithms to imitate intelligent human behavior — the key word being "intelligent." AI is quickly changing the way in which students consume educational content, revise and practice questions. The benefits…...
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, 3+ 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…...
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…...
What successful M&A looks like
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1162+ words) Acquiring another accounting firm may seem like a quick and easy way to boost growth — particularly when compared to the slow slog of building up business organically — but it's really neither quick nor easy. For many of this year's Fastest-Growing…...
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…...