AI for Accountants — Newsletter Archive

May 12, 2026

Your AI does math wrong — here's what the research says

A new University of Chicago paper shows AI models struggle with numerical reasoning far more than benchmark scores suggest. Meanwhile, Grant Thornton rolled out its own audit AI platform — and Digits just moved accrual schedules out of Excel and into the ledger. Let’s dive in.

May 8, 2026

The AI workpaper tool that never leaves Excel

AI moved from pitch decks to workpapers this week — Suralink put AI inside Excel, PwC and OpenAI are building CFO‐level agents, and a new report shows most firms still don't have the people to execute any of it.

May 5, 2026

The AI tax platform 40% of top firms trusted first just opened its doors

Black Ore's enterprise AI tax prep tool just opened to all firms after two years behind closed doors — and Intuit dropped a full AI firm management suite in the same week. If you're evaluating AI tools for next season, this is a good week to pay attention. Let's dive in.

May 1, 2026

Your clients can now run TurboTax inside Claude

Tax season may be winding down, but the AI news isn't. This week: Intuit plugged QuickBooks and TurboTax directly into Claude, the AICPA launched its first real AI training program with CPE credits attached, and a new report shows most firms still can't measure what their AI investments are actually doing. Let's dive in.

Apr 28, 2026

Your firm has no benchmark. This fixes that.

Extension season is here, and the AI story is shifting — from promises to proof. This week: a real cleanup case study, Xero's full AI rebuild, and a free benchmarking tool that finally shows where your firm stands. Let's dive in.

Apr 24, 2026

Your client meeting notes just filed themselves

Extension season is underway, and this week the AI news shifted from research to reality — Digits just made your financial data queryable inside Claude and ChatGPT, Canopy launched a notetaker that files client meeting summaries automatically, and KPMG built an AI assistant for the month-end close that's already running at Big Four scale. Let's dive in.

Apr 21, 2026

Stanford just proved AI makes accountants faster — here's the data

Tax season is closed and the receipts are finally coming in — a Stanford/MIT field study just confirmed AI adopters handle 55% more client work per week, PwC finds 81% of firms still can't measure what they're spending on AI, and a new platform called Omni is quietly solving the problem nobody talks about: the manual work between your tools, not the tools themselves. Let's dive in.

Apr 17, 2026

Tax AI finally has receipts — real results from the firms using it

Tax season is closing, and this issue lands with actual proof — a Colorado bookkeeping firm reporting 20% immediate time savings with an AI-native platform, Thomson Reuters data showing 82% of firms still can't measure the AI they're already deploying, and BlackLine betting its entire platform on making AI auditable enough for CFOs to trust. Let's dive in.

Apr 14, 2026

KPMG just removed humans from audit testing

With April 15 landing tomorrow, this week delivered the clearest signal yet that AI is rewiring the tax and audit stack — not gradually, but now. A CPA‐built startup raised $12M to automate 90% of return prep, KPMG announced it's pulling humans out of routine audit testing this summer, and a new Grant Thornton survey shows most firms can't govern the AI they've already deployed.