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How to tackle your first external audit, before it tackles you.

Airbase

Kelly Hicks and Robin Sharma share advice after Airbase successfully completes its first external audit. Few milestones in a company’s lifecycle demand a more focused response from finance and accounting than the first external audit. When is the right time for a company’s first audit? The lead-up: Choosing auditors and timing.

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Choosing the Right Accounting Tools for your Franchise

MineralTree

In addition, multi-entity consolidations can be time-consuming and complex, requiring significant efforts to reconcile financial statements across various locations. This often delays reporting and creates disorganized financial statements. It also provides a better audit trail than manual methods.

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Accounts payable automation: the ultimate game changer for accounting firms

Accounting Insight

Accounts payable automation, also known as AP automation or invoicing automation, is the process of automating accounts payable processes and activities while collecting the critical data required to make smart decisions, improve efficiency, and grow your business. 88% reported facing problems with their payments system.

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ChatGPT Can Pass the CPA Exam But Here’s What It Can’t Do (Yet)

Going Concern

This foundational work does require accuracy, and your job may change to auditing AI-entered data to ensure it’s accurate, and to look for non-routine data that AI is unsure about how to handle or code. Humans will also be able to perform an audit role here to ensure invoices are legitimate and not a scam. What about one-off vendors?

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