Collect year-end documents from the client
Sending a checklist and chasing missing items is routine. An agent can track what has arrived and remind the client.
AI for Accounting Firms
Accounting Firm
Provides bookkeeping, payroll, tax preparation, compliance reporting, and financial advice for clients across industries, while managing deadlines and regulatory filings.
What should stay human.
Keep and amplify
Prepare annual accounts and tax returns for the business
Review the client's ledger for miscoded transactions
Research tax treatment for an unusual transaction
Automate
Collect year-end documents from the client
Schedule the annual planning meeting
Send engagement letters and fee estimates
Tasks, by type of work.
Each task has an experience tag (CX, SX or BX), a verdict, and example agents that often help with this kind of work. Agent suggestions come from our editorial scores, not vendor claims.
Inbox
Bookings & calendar
Schedule the annual planning meeting
Finding a time and sending the agenda is simple to automate.
Spreadsheets & data
Review the client's ledger for miscoded transactions
An agent can flag likely errors and duplicates. The accountant decides the correct treatment.
Produce quarterly management reports for the client
An agent can build the report and charts. The firm's commentary on what to do next is the valuable part.
Documents
Prepare annual accounts and tax returns for the business
Much of the preparation is data assembly that software and agents speed up. Sign-off and advice remain the firm's professional work.
Prepare payroll and BAS or sales tax reporting
Figures flow from the accounting file, so an agent can prefill returns. A registered agent reviews and lodges.
Send engagement letters and fee estimates
Standard engagement documents can be generated from the client record and sent for e-signature.
Research
Research tax treatment for an unusual transaction
An agent can gather official rulings and guidance fast. The firm still has to form and stand behind the view.
Customer chat
Advise the owner on business structure or a major purchase
This is judgement about the owner's situation and risk appetite. It should stay a human conversation.
Admin
Track lodgement deadlines across the client's obligations
Due dates are known in advance. An agent can keep the list and warn early.
Time freed, and where it goes.
Work an agent can take on
What comes off the desk.
- Collect year-end documents from the client
- Schedule the annual planning meeting
- Send engagement letters and fee estimates
- Track lodgement deadlines across the client's obligations
Where those hours should go
Back into people, and the business.
- CX — Advise the owner on business structure or a major purchase
- SX — Staff experience: more time for the work that needs a person
- BX — Prepare annual accounts and tax returns for the business
- BX — Review the client's ledger for miscoded transactions
- BX — Research tax treatment for an unusual transaction
- BX — Prepare payroll and BAS or sales tax reporting
- BX — Produce quarterly management reports for the client
Seen at
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