Analyze financial information and prepare financial reports to determine or maintain record of assets, liabilities, profit and loss, tax liability, or other financial activities within an organization.
U.S. Workers
1,448,290
Median Salary
$81,680
10-Year Growth
+4.6%
Annual Openings
124,200
Typical entry: Bachelor's degree
17 of 17 tasks have some AI capability
Exposure Trend
This score reflects estimated AI technical capability for tasks in this occupation. It does not predict employment changes, and it does not account for company-specific constraints, regulation, or adoption barriers.
Develop, maintain, and analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.
AI: Fully automatable - Budget creation, maintenance, variance analysis, and periodic reporting can be fully automated by modern accounting and analytics tools augmented with AI.
Prepare adjusting journal entries.
AI: Fully automatable - Many adjusting journal entries (accruals, amortization, allocations) can be generated and posted automatically by accounting systems and AI rules engines.
Review accounts for discrepancies and reconcile differences.
AI: Fully automatable - Account reconciliation and discrepancy detection are routine, rule‑based tasks that contemporary accounting systems and AI matching algorithms can fully automate.
Establish tables of accounts and assign entries to proper accounts.
AI: Fully automatable - By 2025 automated accounting systems and ML-based classifiers can establish charts of accounts and correctly assign routine entries with high accuracy.
Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting, or other tax requirements.
AI: Fully automatable - Tax computation and return preparation are largely automated by modern software and AI tools that handle forms, calculations, and many compliance checks.
Report to management regarding the finances of establishment.
AI: Fully automatable - Generating management financial reports, dashboards, and explanatory narratives is routine and can be fully automated given access to the data.
Maintain or examine the records of government agencies.
AI: Partial - Routine maintenance and automated examination of government records can be automated, yet compliance interpretation, legal constraints, and sensitive audits still need human review.
Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
AI: Partial - AI can prepare and analyze records and flag conformity issues at scale, but final assessment, professional judgment, and attestation for compliance often require human accountants.
Advise clients in areas such as compensation, employee health care benefits, the design of accounting or data processing systems, or long-range tax or estate plans.
AI: Partial - AI can generate recommendations on compensation, benefits design, systems, and long‑range plans, but individualized, regulatory, and fiduciary advice still requires human advisers.
Represent clients before taxing authorities and provide support during litigation involving financial issues.
AI: Partial - AI can prepare documentation, analyses, and negotiation strategies for tax disputes and litigation support, but formal representation and courtroom advocacy remain human responsibilities.
Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
AI: Partial - AI can analyze trends and produce forecasts and scenario analyses but still relies on human judgment for strategic interpretation, unusual events, and validating assumptions.
Develop, implement, modify, and document recordkeeping and accounting systems, making use of current computer technology.
AI: Partial - AI can design, implement, modify, and document many technical components and configurations, but complex system architecture, governance, and integration decisions require human oversight.
Provide internal and external auditing services for businesses or individuals.
AI: Partial - AI automates many audit procedures—data analytics, sampling, anomaly detection—but professional judgment, interviews, and final assurance opinions require human auditors.
Advise management about issues such as resource utilization, tax strategies, and the assumptions underlying budget forecasts.
AI: Partial - AI can produce resource‑use analyses, tax strategy options, and test budget assumptions, but tailored advice requires human experience, judgment, and responsibility for risk decisions.
Prepare forms and manuals for accounting and bookkeeping personnel and direct their work activities.
AI: Partial - AI can draft forms, manuals, and standardized procedures and suggest task assignments, but cannot fully replace the human leadership and judgment required to direct personnel and manage people issues.
Appraise, evaluate, and inventory real property and equipment, recording information such as the description, value, and location of property.
AI: Partial - AI can maintain inventories, record descriptions/locations, and estimate values from data, but accurate appraisal of real property and equipment typically requires on-site inspection and professional human judgment.
Survey operations to ascertain accounting needs and to recommend, develop, or maintain solutions to business and financial problems.
AI: Partial - AI can analyze operations, identify accounting needs, and propose solutions, but recommending, developing, and maintaining business-level changes requires human stakeholder engagement and contextual judgment.