AI for Accounting and Finance Blog

• Industry: Accounting
• HQ: San Francisco, California
• Employees: 100 - 150
• Accounting / Finance Systems: Bill.com, Expensify, and NetSuite (Countsy is NetSuite’s 2019 BPO Partner of the Year)

In addition to addressing your redundant tasks, your customer communications requirements, and future changes in technology, the AI (artificial intelligence) platform that you select needs to be able to process and understand your clients' documents.

A huge part of your success in automating outsourced accounting has to do with the mix of clients. These are the kinds of clients that you work with. Will your accounting practice change the mix of clients it has?

When you're thinking about how to select the right AI platform, you should first clarify why you're investing in AI. For most accounting, CPA, or outsourced bookkeeping firms, the goal is to find an AI-based accounting platform that will genuinely work for you. It should streamline time-consuming, mundane tasks.

How do AI and machine learning impact how you build a team that will run your accounting practice?

The battleground has moved, and competitive battles will no longer be fought with the ordinary tools and software that accountants have depended on for decades.

Your firm’s ability to recruit top talent and win the best clients going forward will depend on how well it adapts to AI and machine learning.

We’re entering a new era of accounting driven by artificial intelligence or AI. While the benefits of AI in regards to everyday productivity and efficiency are pretty extreme, the real upside will be with the new era of business success.

Accountants ask themselves questions tens, if not hundreds of times each day. What types of questions do they ask themselves? Keep in mind, these are excellent questions for artificial intelligence or AI.

About 80% of us have used systems that are based on artificial intelligence or AI technology. But most of us are not aware of that. 

A huge amount of venture capital is being invested in the development of intelligence systems. And that shift is happening very fast. 

What does it mean when we use the word artificial intelligence or AI?

Accountants know that it’s tough to change software—both the software that they use internally to run their firms and the related software that their clients use to interact with them.