I get nervous when an AI business case begins with “everyone will save time.” Maybe they will. But time savings have become the AI version of synergy in an acquisition deck. They appear everywhere, sound financially responsible, and get surprisingly vague when I ask when the cash shows up. If Finance is going to support […]
I suspect a surprising number of finance teams already have an AI policy. It is just unwritten and different for every employee. One person will not put a customer name into anything. Another has uploaded half a forecast model because the tool promised to make the formulas nicer. Someone else is using an approved enterprise […]
There is a version of AI adoption I find much more convincing than the demo where a chatbot becomes your CFO before the coffee gets cold. It is somebody in Accounting not spending forty minutes looking for support that should have been attached to a reconciliation. Month-end close is not glamorous. That is part of […]
There is a meaningful difference between AI helping with Finance and AI doing Finance. We are crossing it. Until fairly recently, most of my conversations about AI in Finance sounded something like this: Can it write the variance commentary? Can it summarize this report? Can it help with the forecast? Can it analyze this file? […]
Every company seems to be saving thousands of hours with AI. I would like to know where everyone is keeping them. Because apparently AI wrote the email, summarized the meeting, analyzed the data, drafted the presentation and saved Brenda six hours on Tuesday. Fantastic. What happened Wednesday? I ask because companies are getting very good […]
I wouldn’t have written this article a few years ago. Mostly because nobody was asking me whether I trusted the financial forecast built by a robot. Finance has changed. Now AI can analyze historical results, identify patterns, generate baseline forecasts, flag anomalies, help build scenarios and explain variances. Some newer systems are moving toward something […]
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