Chris Gaetano is the technology editor for Accounting Today. He brings with him more than a decade of experience covering the accounting profession as part of the NYSSCPA's Trusted Professional. Prior to that, he was a local news reporter at Greater Media Newspapers in New Jersey. He graduated from Rowan University, in Glassboro, NJ.
Amid cost pressures, more than a third of finance leaders have paused at least some capital spending and cut costs in virtually all areas except for AI.
Plus, Sage launches Tap to Pay feature; UHY offers CCMP accelerator courses; and other accounting technology news and updates.
Deloitte said its auditors will now have enhanced agentic AI capacities within Omnia, the firm's global cloud-based audit and assurance platform.
Thomson Reuters debuted two agentic AI offerings that are aimed at improving tax and advisory workflows: Ready to Advise and Ready to Review.
Wolters Kluwer announced a version of CCH Validate that is now entirely in the cloud.
The VeritShield service offering is designed to help firms actively build and maintain a Written Information Security Program as required by the IRS.
Plus, Abacus announces $6.6 million seed funding for agentic AI assistants; and other news and updates from the accounting tech arena.
Ramp released of its first set of AI agents, "built and trained to think like your sharpest controller and work like a thousand of them—around the clock."
A joint report by the AICPA and Chartered Professional Accountants Canada said the rapid rise of AI opens up opportunities to provide independent assurance.
Tax solutions provider Avalara released its newest AI offering, Avi for Tax Research, a generative AI-based solution embedded in Avalara Tax Research.
