Artificial intelligence and the future of accountancy

Artificial intelligence and the future of accountancy

Do you want to streamline your invoice management process? Do you wish to expedite your account closing procedure? Are you looking for an efficient system for expense management? Do you intend to make your audit process more accurate, efficient, and secured? If you answered ‘Yes’ to any of those questions, we have the answer for you – Artificial Intelligence (AI).


Similar to other industries, artificial intelligence is making its impact in the accounting world as well, specifically making it more competitive. Although accounting is a traditional industry, accounting has been automated. AI’s impact on accounting adds new vigour to it by transforming the repetitive, standardized tasks to the generation of insights that can drive strategic decisions for businesses.


Artificial intelligence is defined as the simulation of human intelligence in machines so that they think like humans and imitate their actions. Machines or bots learn to read data, interpret the
information, tune it for better analysis, and perform the required tasks.


It combines other technologies and innovative concepts such as computer vision, deep learning,
natural language processing, machine learning, and reasoning to improve the strategic importance of the accounting function.

Artificial intelligence for the future of accountancy

AI and accounting walk hand in hand. What started with the automation of basic accounting tasks has shifted gears to more intelligent, results-driven, strategic insights. The three primary ways in
which we see the use of artificial intelligence in accounting and finance are:

Efficiency in repetitive tasks

AI has the strength to collect and collate data from various sources in any format – structure or unstructured. Artificial intelligence in accounting information systems allows accountants to sort and visualize the data in multiple formats.

AI-based invoice management systems automate the invoice processing to eliminate errors, improve the recording of invoices, increase the number of invoices recorded, and manage relationships with suppliers. AI-based auditing process removes the requirement for auditors to go through the entire process of creating tests, writing scripts, and applying all rules.

Furthermore, artificial intelligence enables the execution of repetitive and standardized tasks earlier performed by accountants, thereby providing them more time to focus on understanding the data generated.

Reduction in frauds and errors

With the rise in online activities, there is a surge in online payments, online banking, and other online financial transactions.

However, in such transactions, the chances of financial crime such as fraud also surge higher. This is where the role of artificial intelligence in accounting and auditing becomes pertinent.

AI enables the correct matching of expenses with the appropriate categories so that expense management is possible without any errors. AI also facilitates the detection of errors such as duplicate entries, incomplete invoicing leading to fraud situations, or some objectionable payments.

These benefits of AI enable accountants to make the right payments and remain compliant with statutory requirements, thereby achieving full compliance and protecting the client’s finances from any frauds.

Drawing insights for better decision-making

We know that AI can detect anomalies in data and can analyze data efficiently and effectively. These data may refer to the invoices from suppliers, sales made to customers, demographics of customers, or any other data.

Such clean, analysed data can lead to better insights for the decision-makers who can base their next strategies on these insightful data. With the use of artificial intelligence in accounting, accountants can do budgeting, cash flow forecasting and financial planning to ensure they do not face any uncertain losses.

Decision-makers can use such actionable insights generated from AI-based accounting to adjust their expenses or make changes to the processes to reduce business expenditure and thus deal with financial challenges more efficiently.

The hey can leverage the use of AI in accounting and finance to understand the right time of targeting customers with marketing efforts to generate sales and understand customer behavior for future advertising strategies.

Impact of artificial intelligence on the accounting profession

With all these benefits and many more benefits being explored in the future, many people will safely assume that artificial intelligence will replace accountants. No, that is not and will never be the case. It requires the right combination and collaboration of the human mind and advanced technology to make the most of the benefits to businesses.

The impact of artificial intelligence on accounting will keep on increasing, but human intelligence will have its role to play in this setup. AI technology will replace the repetitive tasks of humans and make financial transactions error-free and faster, but human intelligence is required to run this technology.

Accountants’ insights-generating competency is essential to assess the large amounts of error-free, clean data that can help businesses in key decisions.

Therefore, AI will not replace accountants; AI will assist accountants in the conduct of accounting services with more efficiency, effectiveness, and more value. However, accountants have to develop more skills to make the right use of AI in finance and accounting to generate benefits for businesses and the economy as a whole.

AI will collect data from multiple sources and perform calculations, but accountants will be required to analyze the information and draw conclusions. Accountants must have the following skills:
  • They must have the curiosity to use new technology and implement automation in accounting processes to increase efficiency and decrease costs
  • They must have core data processing skills and knowledge in probability, statistics, and predictive modelling to generate insightful data from AI-based accounting processes
  • They must have the storytelling ability to use data and analytics to share conclusions and recommendations with the business decision-makers for better growth
  • They must have the abilities of critical thinking, problem-solving, deeper understanding, innovativeness, adaptive thinking, and future forecasting to make sense of the data and information on hand
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KMS accounting services include basic bookkeeping services, cash flow forecasting services, business
valuation and restructuring, account reconciliation services, and updating of backlog accounts.

Our team boasts of expert accountants with extensive experience in varied industries who not only
provide accounting services, but also make it easier for organizations to take strategic decisions.

Our accounting services facilitate smart budget preparation, proper accounting record-keeping,
tracking of malpractices, and effective decision-making.

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frequently asked questions(faqs)

No, AI will transform the accounting industry, but accountants are very much needed.
Yes, AI can make most of the accounting tasks faster, error-free, and timely.
The educational requirements may not reduce, but may add up with additional courses in developing skills such as data analytics, business modelling, statistics, and others.

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