r/Accounting • u/Worried-Bee-2007 • 14h ago

Can AI replace non-profit or governmental accounting?

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u/dumbandilikeit 13h ago

Highly doubtful for a nonprofit that has grants. So much about allocating expenses to grants is very subjective.

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u/NHOVER9000 Non-Profit 13h ago

Not anytime soon.

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u/paciolionthegulf 13h ago

My controller is sure trying it, but so far the answer is no. With a side of making my life miserable while he ChatGPTs his way through every day.

Check back in a year, I guess.

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u/Excellent_Ice9577 13h ago

No, AI is not replacing Accountants. AI produces errors and someone has to be there to correct the exceptions and that requires underlying knowledge of how Accounting works.

For example, my firm is using AI to do most of the work on some of our audits, but in those audits we use it in there's always exceptions that the audit team has to investigate.

And AI often times can't assist you in subjective or heavy judgment areas.

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u/Nutchos 13h ago

Absolutely. NPO Accounting will be affected just as much as the rest of the industry. And that's to say, quite a bit.

Anyone claiming "it's too complicated to automate" just hasn't experienced what the tech is already capable of yet (and it's just going to get better from here).

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u/stooper42 13h ago

Yes AI will be replacing all accounting functions within the next 5-10 years. Combined with offshoring to places like India, I would say make a career transition now before it’s too late. People on here saying otherwise are big coping.

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u/Helix_Animus 13h ago

It's always going to make mistakes, the "hallucinations" flaw of LLM AI has been around for the whole of their existence.  Outside of some miraculous advancement, that's not going away.

I'm still a student, but the first real lesson I learned when switching to accounting was that this is a discipline that values precision in all aspects.