Forward-Looking Statements
Finance & Accounting Forecast
Explore insights from 99 U.S.-based finance and accounting professionals surveyed on their priorities and how they predict AI will impact the industry most in 2025.
What matters most in 2025
When asked about top priorities, the themes of 2025 for finance and accounting leaders triangulate around three main areas: strategy, storytelling and spend optimization.
0 %
Improve metrics, insights, and storytelling
0 %
Evaluate or improve the finance/accounting function’s strategy and design
0 %
Optimize costs
Isn’t AI also
top of mind?
top of mind?
From priorities to pain points – everyone’s talking about the AI elephant in the room.
Top pain points AI could solve
Identify key data points or discrepancies in vast datasets
Generate
automated insights
Facilitate
complex tasks
Query
structured data
Improve the quality
of reporting or audits
Enhance
operations
Identify key data points or discrepancies in vast datasets
Generate
automated insights
Facilitate
complex tasks
Query
structured data
Improve the quality
of reporting or audits
Enhance
operations
FP&...AI?
Respondents predict AI’s greatest benefits in forecasting and planning, with AP/AR automation and risk management close behind. As organizations adopt AI, leaders expect these functions to see significant efficiency and accuracy gains.
60 %
Believe AI will greatly reduce manual workloads
Manual makeovers, powered by AI
AI is expected to reduce manual workloads, allowing accounting and finance teams to focus on more strategic work.
Big expectations;
long way to go
long way to go
AI adoption in accounting and finance is more complex than in many other industries, primarily due to the heightened stakes of data security.
While many (59%) of those surveyed say they are currently exploring basic AI use cases–like ChatGPT–only 17% have implemented pilot programs or begun to scale AI across their organizations.
Not yet considering AI
Early exploration
Official pilot projects launched
Scaling AI initiatives across departments
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