How Accounting and Bookkeeping Firms Use AI in 2026
Two Cents Magazine exists to celebrate, educate, and inspire bookkeeping, accounting, and tax professionals across North America. We publish new issues quarterly and make them available online free of charge.
Almost every firm has tried AI. Only 1 in 5 can prove it’s working. This issue gets into why — with survey data from nearly 500 accounting and bookkeeping professionals, and honest conversations with the firm owners who’ve actually made it pay off.
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What’s inside this issue:
Almost everyone in accounting has at least tried AI, but few are leveraging it to the fullest. This issue looks at where the profession actually stands with AI—and what’s standing in the way of getting more out of it.
- Data from nearly 500 of your peers on the tools they are using and what’s working
- Honest AI perspectives from real accounting and bookkeeping professionals
- Advice from the industry’s top AI voices
Soundbites from Issue #2
A sampling of quotes from our featured firm owners.
“When we first started [with AI], our biggest terms were ‘trust but verify.’ You can’t let it drive. It still needs someone to lead it and to verify the output.”
“You have to be really careful about those smaller things and not relying on everything the AI gives you.”
“Only us old folks are going to be left to actually explain things to people, because the preparers are going to have no way of learning.”