CFO Technology Stack: The AI Tools Finance Leaders Are Actually Deploying
Nearly every finance leader now uses AI somewhere in the CFO technology stack. Almost none of them are ready to...
Howard Locke
Howard Locke covers AI, audit technology, and enterprise software for Accountio, reporting on how large firms and finance teams are adopting machine learning, automation, and data analytics to reshape traditional accounting workflows.
How to Automate Month End Close: What CFOs Actually Prioritise First
Only 18% of finance teams close their books in three days or fewer. The median sits at six business days,...
AI Audit Software Compared: DataSnipper, Inflo, CoCounsel, MindBridge and Caseware
Practice leaders evaluating AI audit software face a market that has split into three distinct categories. Evidence automation tools, full-population...
AI indirect tax compliance tools are accelerating, but most tax teams are not ready to use them
Corporate tax departments say they want AI. The tooling vendors say it is ready. The workforce data says neither side...
Deloitte Omnia Agentic Intelligence: 85,000 Auditors Get a Network of AI Agents That Talk to Each Other
The new Deloitte Omnia agentic intelligence network stitches together multiple AI agents into a single co-ordinated system across the firm's...
DualEntry: The Two-Year-Old Startup Valued at $415M
Nobody enjoys buying an ERP. Implementation takes a year or longer. The upfront bill runs six figures before the software...
Karbon Launches Kai as AI Coworker for Accounting Firms in Practice Management Push
Karbon, the practice management software provider backed by Tidemark and Five Elms Capital, has introduced Kai as AI coworker built...
PwC and OpenAI Launch AI-driven CFO Office Transformation
PwC and OpenAI have expanded their collaboration to build what they are calling the first AI-native finance operation at enterprise...
Agentic AI in Accounting: Capabilities, Limitations, and the Path to Adoption
Countsy, a California-based firm that provides outsourced accounting and CFO services to hundreds of venture-backed start-ups, processes up to 3,500...
KPMG AI in Auditing: Pilot of Next-Generation Audit Agents Begins
KPMG launched an AI-enabled audit and advisory offering for private companies last week, the firm's latest move in a multi-billion-dollar...
