IRS leveraging AI for audits amid layoffs
Accounting Today
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The Internal Revenue Service is expected to lean more heavily on artificial intelligence technology to select cases as it carries out widespread layoffs.
Accounting Today
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The Internal Revenue Service is expected to lean more heavily on artificial intelligence technology to select cases as it carries out widespread layoffs.
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*In case it isn’t abundantly clear, she didn’t actually tell you to get CPA tattooed on your forehead as that would be ridiculous. Obviously. Susan S. Coffey, CPA, CGMA, CEOPublic Accounting at the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants has penned a little something for Journal of Accountancy worth our full attention.
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