Microsoft has added 25 new finance skills to Copilot, its AI assistant, and they connect to QuickBooks, Xero and Zoho Books. If you’ve wondered whether AI will start doing your bookkeeping, here’s the honest picture: it’s becoming a powerful tool for bookkeepers, not a substitute for one. What the new tools can do The new Copilot features are built for routine monthly work: Reconciliations: comparing your ledger with bank statements and vendor records, and flagging missing or

Most of what slows my practice down isn't the big decisions. It's the dozens of small hand-offs between tools and tasks every single day. Running a cloud-based bookkeeping practice means a lot of my week goes to moving work between apps. That's why I'm watching the updates in Intuit Accountant Suite, backed by Intuit Intelligence. Three things stand out as I bring AI into my work: • Automations that flag what needs attention across my whole client portfolio, before I go looki

Last month I attended Accountex London 2026 at ExCeL London, the UK's largest event for accounting and finance professionals, bringing together over 16,000 attendees and 300+ exhibitors from across the industry. This was my third year attending, and it's become a bit of a ritual at this point: two days walking the floor, sitting in on sessions, and talking to people building the next generation of accounting and bookkeeping technology. Honestly, this gap is part of why I keep