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Accountants and Auditors
Examine, analyze, and interpret accounting records to prepare financial statements, give advice, or audit and evaluate statements prepared by others. Install or advise on systems of recording costs or other financial and budgetary data.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Process invoices for payment.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Review accounts for discrepancies and reconcile differences.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting, or other tax requirements.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Prepare adjusting journal entries.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Inspect account books and accounting systems for efficiency, effectiveness, and use of accepted accounting procedures to record transactions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Prepare detailed reports on audit findings.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Prepare, analyze, or verify annual reports, financial statements, and other records, using accepted accounting and statistical procedures to assess financial condition and facilitate financial planning.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Collect and analyze data to detect deficient controls, duplicated effort, extravagance, fraud, or non-compliance with laws, regulations, and management policies.People already use AI for this at work
- 10Review data about material assets, net worth, liabilities, capital stock, surplus, income, or expenditures.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss35%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
56%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 66% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 31% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.