Will AI Replace Accountants? It May Already Be Happening…
The takeover has started...
The top stories this week:
AI is bringing about the end of month-end
A new report explores how AI is transforming traditional month-end workflows, reducing manual reconciliation and compressing reporting cycles from weeks to minutes. This marks a major step toward real-time accounting as the new industry norm.
Read more on Accountancy Age
Sage unveils AI-powered task automation with waves of agents
Sage has introduced its AI agent platform, designed to automate core accounting tasks like reconciliation, coding and chasing. The launch underscores Sage’s push to lead in intelligent automation across mid-market accounting.
Read more on AccountingWEB
Intuit reveals AI agents coming to QuickBooks
QuickBooks is set to roll out AI agents to handle categorisation, reminders, and customer interactions across its product suite. These updates mark Intuit’s next step toward embedded intelligence at the core of small business accounting.
Read more on QuickBooks
Other news
Sage previews Copilot capabilities for X3 platform
Thomson Reuters launches Agentic AI for tax and accounting
Karbon launches end-to-end tax workflows, AI tools, and practice intelligence
UK influencers arrested in multi-million pound tax fraud case
Accounting Excellence Awards 2025 finalists announced
What next?
Catch the Digi-Tools in Accrual World podcast on Monday morning, where we’ll break down these stories and give our takes.
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