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AI tools will help to transform practices over the next few years, but what exactly will the impact be and how can you get started?

A large majority of finance leaders have been tasked with new responsibilities in 2024. Not surprisingly, many of those responsibilities revolve around technology.

This year’s report takes a look at how tax departments and their leaders are overcoming various disruptions like legislative and regulatory change, an uncertain talent market, generative AI and more, fostering trust across the organization. Key report findings from 500 CFOs, CEOs and Chief Tax Officers – 25% of which are in the Northeast region, indicate...

Accountants have pretty much always used technology — what else do you call an abacus or a slide rule or an adding machine? — but it is increasingly obvious that, as the world moves through its digital revolution, it has slowly become a technology-driven profession, where powerful software solutions are not enhancements but true necessities for all but the most basic of jobs. This has led to a veritable galaxy of specialized accounting applications, and a veritable universe of other apps that, while not specific to the profession, are nonetheless invaluable to their work.

Data privacy and FP&A top CFOs’ priorities for the coming year, according to a new survey report from Protiviti.

The new EU Artificial Intelligence Act raises many questions and should put AI on every business’s agenda sooner rather than later.

With IT security and data protection being such important factors, accountants and bookkeepers need to ensure they have considered how they set rules and guidelines for themselves and their teams.

Adoption of finance AI — artificial intelligence that aids in the finance function — is on the rise.

Leadership’s patience around getting returns on technology investments is thinning, according to new data from IBM.

As trusted custodians of sensitive client data, accountants and bookkeepers need to exercise caution about what AI tools they adopt and what access they give these tools to data. This feature forms part of our special editorial report on the subject, in association with Sage.

As the cost-benefits of generative AI for businesses come into question, new data from KPMG suggest the largest companies have a timeline to ROI.

Brian May, CFO of food service company Nicholas and Company, offers a unique CFO perspective on the lessons he learned during a major digital overhaul.

As data thieves get more cunning, the Internal Revenue Service and its partners in the Security Summit have laid out half a dozen steps for practitioners to take to begin protecting themselves as data thieves get more cunning.

As artificial intelligence quietly transforms the accounting industry, we look at how it has evolved and the changes it has brought to everyday tasks, with this feature forming part of our special editorial report on the subject, in association with Sage.

C-suite leaders in a global survey say generative AI has influenced their business models, improved customer relationships, and cut business costs.

The most recent draft of the form that brokers will use to report certain 2025 transactions involving the sale or exchange of digital assets reflects the final regulations (T.D. 10000) for custodial broker reporting that the IRS released in June.

Half of surveyed organizations don’t know how often they’re hit by fraudulent payment schemes or what the cost is.

Governor Ned Lamont today joined state agency leaders and law enforcement officials at a news conference to highlight steps Connecticut is taking to combat a rise in credit, debit, and EBT card skimmers targeting consumers. This includes the launch of an education campaign to help people learn the signs of skimmers and fraud, police investigations, and increased efforts by the Connecticut Food Association to train frontline staff in stores and place security tape over point-of sale devices to make skimmers easier to recognize.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Security Summit partners remind tax professionals that using multi-factor authentication is now more than an important protection for their businesses and their clients – it’s now a federal requirement.

Although lots of resources and hype have gone towards digital transformations, few have used the technology to overhaul finance yet, according to McKinsey.