AI Is Reshaping Accounting Jobs by Doing the “Boring” Stuff - CEO North America

AI Is Reshaping Accounting Jobs by Doing the “Boring” Stuff - CEO North America

Accountants have long been seen as easy targets for automation. Accounting often tops lists of the most automatable jobs, owing to its reliance on routine tasks like data entry and reconciliation: exactly the kind of work computers — and now, artificial intelligence — are built to handle. But a new study by Jung Ho Choi, an assistant professor of accounting at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Chloe Xie, PhD ’20, of MIT Sloan School of M…