AI Won’t Replace Accountants, It Will Change Where They Create Value
Accounting has a tech problem, and it is not what most people think. In this conversation, Cos Nicolaescu, Co-founder and CEO at Accrual, breaks down why accounting has lagged behind, where AI can actually create leverage, and why the future of the profession is likely more human, not less.
This episode gets into the real constraints inside accounting workflows, the difference between deterministic work and judgment based work, and why trust, context, and client knowledge still matter more than most AI narratives admit.
What stands out
• Accounting has not been slow to adopt tech because…
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