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Why AI needs to show its work
Understanding where an answer comes from ensures you’re ready when a partner, a client, or an examiner asks how you made a judgment call.
How firms make AI adoption work for them
Firms seeing the greatest success with AI are building a strong technology foundation rather than simply adding more tools.
Sales tax doesn’t have to be this hard
AI now assists with product classification to tax categories, certificate capture and validation, address cleansing, monitoring statute and rule changes, anomaly detection, notice triage, and forecasting nexus risk, which reduces manual effort and cycle time while improving consistency.
Turning member insights into policy
From IRS notices to AI attestation, AICPA advocacy relies on member experience to push for practical policy solutions that serve CPAs, taxpayers, and businesses.
AI raises the stakes for auditor judgment
CPAs must understand AI’s limits, test its outputs, and keep professional skepticism firmly in human hands.
How CPAs are putting AI to work in audits
Four firms share examples of using artificial intelligence to assess risk, prepare data, and flag anomalies in ways that save time and money.
Find and fix bad workbook links
Excel’s Workbook Links pane can help you identify source workbooks, refresh linked values, locate cells that contain links, change the source when a file has been moved or renamed, and remove links that are no longer needed.
The trust imperative in the age of AI
Mark Koziel, CPA, CGMA, president and CEO of the AICPA and CEO of the Association of Certified International Professional Accountants, discusses how CPAs have an opportunity to help organizations, investors, regulators, and the public know that they can trust what AI producing.
AI changes how accountants work, not what they do
Three years after tax professionals attended the AICPA National Tax Conference’s first session on generative AI, a speaker from the 2023 conference and a speaker at this year’s conference say the technology is changing how accountants work, not replacing them. They also say AI’s growing role in practice requires safeguards, oversight, and experienced professionals.
AICPA partners on new offering that assures AI systems and agents
The first-of-its-kind assurance certification, developed with the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, is in a piloting phase and is expected to fully launch in early 2027.
A Raven’s-eye view on interest rates, jobs, and the U.S. economy
Ahead of appearances at two AICPA conferences, a Baltimore-based economist shares his outlook on interest rates, jobs, AI, and the broader economy. He also explains why economic trends often look different depending on where you’re standing.
AI and the audit: AICPA publishes practice aid to assist auditors
A new practice aid covers the impact of organizations’ use of artificial intelligence in financial reporting and the impact of audit firms’ use of AI in audit engagements.
Recasting retirement: 3 ways AI is changing client-adviser conversations
What questions should financial advisers expect to hear from clients newly armed with artificial intelligence tools, and how can they answer the call to strengthen their position as essential experts?
New checklist helps CPAs manage AI cyber risks
Finance departments and firms can use an accountant-developed self-evaluation tool to identify gaps and strengthen cybersecurity fundamentals.
Using Excel to automatically flag unusual transactions
By adding a few formulas to an accounts payable export and using Excel’s FILTER function, users can create a reusable report that automatically displays only the transactions meeting one or more exception rules.
The No. 1 cybersecurity tip for sole practitioners
The AICPA’s small firm advocate shares cybersecurity tips and guidance on how to improve client services without hiring staff.
Using an Excel agent to clean, validate, and reconcile data
Follow step-by-step how an agentic AI tool prepares 59,157 rows of general ledger data for audit use in about 10 minutes.
AICPA, former IRS commissioner to lead initiative on AI in tax
Participants in the Council on AI Risk in Tax, led by the AICPA and former IRS commissioner Danny Werfel, include leaders from all areas of the tax world who will work together to promote the responsible use of AI in tax administration and practice.
IRS cyber weaknesses put taxpayer data at risk again, TIGTA says
For the second consecutive year, a government watchdog found the IRS’s cybersecurity program ineffective. TIGTA warned that taxpayer data could be vulnerable if security weaknesses are not addressed.
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