KPMG Introduces Prism as Its New Learning Platform

KPMG LLP has launched Prism, a free mobile app that gives US accountants NASBA-accredited continuing professional education and podcasts on AI, SEC matters and accounting updates, according to the firm’s Prism page as of November 13, 2026.

The app runs on iOS and Android. KPMG describes the offer as full, open access to KPMG-curated learning and CPE credits at zero cost, which makes it a direct addition to the free training market that accounting firms and professional bodies compete in.

For finance professionals the practical point is the price. CPE is usually a line in a firm’s training budget, and a Big Four firm now supplies accredited hours without a fee or a sales call. Many CPAs face year-end CPE deadlines, and Prism arrives in the weeks when they start counting hours.

KPMG has not published a launch date, user numbers, a course total or an investment figure for the app. It has not said whether Prism uses AI to personalise learning. Artificial intelligence appears on the page as a course topic only.

What KPMG Prism offers accountants

Prism carries self-study courses and audio content that KPMG says practising KPMG professionals developed. The courses are eligible for CPE and are built in line with standards set by NASBA and state boards of accountancy.

The launch topics are accounting updates, SEC matters and artificial intelligence. KPMG said it will refresh and expand the content regularly. The app also gives access to KPMG thought leadership and technical resources.

Setup is short. Users download the app from the Apple App Store or Google Play, create a profile and start a course. No firm licence or client relationship is needed.

Who the Prism learning app is for

KPMG aims Prism at US-based CPAs, CFOs, controllers, accounting and tax teams and financial analysts. It also names KPMG alumni and other professionals who need to maintain credentials.

That audience reaches well beyond KPMG’s own staff. The firm sells audit, tax and advisory services to the same CFOs and controllers who can now use the app, so Prism also works as a way for clients and prospects to meet KPMG’s technical content.

The offer is for the US. KPMG’s page refers to NASBA and state boards, which have no standing for accountants in the UK or the EU. Practitioners outside the US should not expect the credits to count towards their own bodies’ requirements.

AI in audit KPMG is already training for

Prism lands after a year in which KPMG has put more of its AI work in front of clients. In April 2026 the firm began a pilot of next-generation audit agents alongside the launch of KPMG Private, an AI-enabled audit and advisory offering for private companies built on its Clara audit platform.

KPMG’s internal data from that pilot showed a 35% fall in hours spent on vouching and workpaper assembly. Its agents analysed 100% of revenue and expense line items, against the 5% to 10% that sampling typically covers. Those figures are KPMG’s own.

The firm’s AI in audit work matters to the people Prism targets. A controller whose auditor tests every line item faces different questions at year end from one whose auditor samples. The AICPA has set out what auditors will ask about client AI use, and finance teams need to be able to answer.

The wider Big Four field is moving the same way. Deloitte has given 85,000 auditors a network of agents through Omnia, and KPMG’s AI in audit KPMG clients now meet is a product they pay for, not a training topic.

How Prism fits KPMG’s training push

Prism is not KPMG’s first AI training product for finance staff. On February 3, 2026, the firm announced a Tax AI Accelerator Program for corporate tax departments, with more than a dozen participating companies, including Duke Energy.

The accelerator teaches prompt engineering, agent development and responsible AI use through CPE-eligible workshops. Each participant gets a custom deployment of KPMG’s Digital Gateway platform, built on Microsoft Azure OpenAI, which provides a private sandbox for testing AI tools without exposing sensitive data.

Rema Serafi, Vice Chair, Tax at KPMG LLP, said at the time that “technology alone isn’t enough”. The accelerator is a paid, tailored programme for a small group of companies. Prism is free, open to anyone and delivered on a phone.

The two products differ in reach and depth. The accelerator works inside a client’s tax function with its own data and tools. Prism offers short courses and podcasts to a mass audience and does not touch client systems.

The same holds for the profession’s other training efforts. ICAEW and Microsoft launched AI training for accountants earlier, and firms of every size now compete to teach the same skills. KPMG is giving its version away.

What finance teams should check before they download

Finance teams need to check three things. First, whether their licensing body accepts NASBA-accredited credits in the form Prism delivers them. Second, whether the AI courses go deep enough to change how a team works with AI accounting agents. Third, whether a free course from a firm that also sells audit work raises any independence question for a company’s own auditor relationship.

The content library is the open question. KPMG has listed three topic areas and promised more, but has not said how many courses or CPE hours the app holds. A thin catalogue would serve a CPA with a few hours left to complete. It would not serve a team looking for a full year of training.

The app is also a small piece of a larger commercial position. KPMG’s AI in audit KPMG offer, its tax accelerator and now a free learning app all point at the same buyer: the finance leader deciding how much of the close, the audit and the tax return to hand to software.

KPMG said it will add courses to Prism over time. Subscribers should watch whether it extends the topic list beyond accounting updates, SEC matters and AI to cover the audit agents it began piloting in April, and whether it publishes usage figures once the year-end CPE rush is over.