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AI for Accountants

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Examine, analyze, and interpret accounting records to prepare financial statements, give advice, or audit and evaluate statements prepared by others. Install or advise on systems of recording costs or other financial and budgetary data.

Accountants and Auditors · O*NET 13-2011.00 · Job Zone 4 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

29 of 40tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

AI you can use for this job

125 matched to the tools accountants and auditors use. Showing 24.

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The tools this job actually uses

237 documented for this occupation. Showing 40, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Adobe Acrobathot
  • Alteryx softwarehot
  • Epic Systemshot
  • Google Docshot
  • Google Sheetshot
  • IBM SPSS Statisticshot
  • Intuit QuickBookshot
  • Intuit TurboTaxhot
  • MEDITECH softwarehot
  • Microsoft Accesshot
  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Outlookhot
  • Microsoft PowerPointhot
  • Microsoft Projecthot
  • Microsoft SharePointhot
  • Microsoft SQL Serverhot
  • Microsoft Visiohot
  • Microsoft Visual Basichot
  • Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications VBAhot
  • Microsoft Windowshot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • Oracle Databasehot
  • Oracle PeopleSofthot
  • Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Managementhot
  • Rhot
  • Salesforce softwarehot
  • SAP Concurhot
  • SAP softwarehot
  • SAShot
  • Structured query language SQLhot
  • Swifthot
  • Tableauhot
  • Teradata Databasehot
  • UNIXhot
  • Workday softwarehot
  • Yardi softwarehot
  • 1099 ProsSoftware
  • Abacus Tax
  • Accountants Templates JAZZ-It!

What this job involves

29 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 24.

  1. Prepare detailed reports on audit findings.
  2. Report to management about asset utilization and audit results, and recommend changes in operations and financial activities.
  3. Collect and analyze data to detect deficient controls, duplicated effort, extravagance, fraud, or non-compliance with laws, regulations, and management policies.
  4. Inspect account books and accounting systems for efficiency, effectiveness, and use of accepted accounting procedures to record transactions.
  5. Supervise auditing of establishments, and determine scope of investigation required.
  6. Confer with company officials about financial and regulatory matters.
  7. Examine and evaluate financial and information systems, recommending controls to ensure system reliability and data integrity.
  8. Inspect cash on hand, notes receivable and payable, negotiable securities, and canceled checks to confirm records are accurate.
  9. Examine records and interview workers to ensure recording of transactions and compliance with laws and regulations.
  10. Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
  11. Prepare adjusting journal entries.
  12. Review accounts for discrepancies and reconcile differences.
  13. Review taxpayer accounts, and conduct audits on-site, by correspondence, or by summoning taxpayer to office.
  14. Establish tables of accounts and assign entries to proper accounts.
  15. Examine inventory to verify journal and ledger entries.
  16. Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting, or other tax requirements.
  17. Advise clients in areas such as compensation, employee health care benefits, the design of accounting or data processing systems, or long-range tax or estate plans.
  18. Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
  19. Report to management regarding the finances of establishment.
  20. Develop, implement, modify, and document recordkeeping and accounting systems, making use of current computer technology.
  21. Evaluate taxpayer finances to determine tax liability, using knowledge of interest and discount rates, annuities, valuation of stocks and bonds, and amortization valuation of depletable assets.
  22. Direct activities of personnel engaged in filing, recording, compiling, and transmitting financial records.
  23. Examine whether the organization's objectives are reflected in its management activities, and whether employees understand the objectives.
  24. Conduct pre-implementation audits to determine if systems and programs under development will work as planned.