• Artificial Intelligence

    Excel Just Got Smarter

    April 1, 2026

    How to Add Claude to Your Spreadsheet Workflow This article highlights a video resource showing how to add Claude to Excel and start using AI directly inside a familiar spreadsheet environment. The topic is especially relevant for professionals who want faster ways to summarize data, generate formulas, organize information, and reduce repetitive spreadsheet tasks. The video’s core promise is that users can bring the benefits of Claude’s AI model into Excel, opening the door to a more efficient workflow for analysis and reporting. Excel has long been one of the most widely used tools in business, but AI is changing…

  • Artificial Intelligence

    Build Smarter Dashboards

    February 25, 2026

    Turning Raw Data into Real-Time Insights with ChatGPT This article explains how professionals can use ChatGPT to create custom dashboards from virtually any dataset—without needing advanced programming skills. It walks through how AI can assist with structuring raw data, identifying key performance indicators, generating visualizations, and even producing dashboard-ready code that you can view immediately. The piece highlights how AI reduces development time, improves insight discovery, and allows consultants and advisors to rapidly prototype and deploy decision-support tools for clients. A companion video resource demonstrates the full process step-by-step. Data is everywhere—but insight is not. Consultants, valuation professionals, and financial…

  • Financial Forensics - QuickRead Top Story

    AI Fraud Detection and Forensic Accounting

    January 7, 2026

    Embracing Innovation to Combat Financial Crime Fraud and financial crime have become increasingly complex and create pervasive issues for organizations of all sizes and specialties. As a result, advanced technology and AI have emerged as invaluable tools in the fight against such issues. This article focuses on how advances in AI and machine learning can aid forensic investigation procedures and further bring the detection of fraud and other financial crimes into the digital age. Introduction In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, fraud and financial crime have become increasingly complex and create pervasive issues for organizations of all sizes and specialties.…

  • QuickPress

    Empowering the Human Element in Automation

    September 25, 2018

    At Flint Hills Resources, robotic process automation is supercharging, not eliminating, finance professionals.  The Koch Industries subsidiary shows us how. To read the full article in Financial Management, click: Empowering the Human Element in Automation.

  • QuickPress

    CPAs Should Shift to Niche Services as Automation Takes Over

    November 8, 2017

    Accountants should focus on providing niche areas of service such as business valuation and retirement planning and move away from tasks including bookkeeping and financial reporting because automation and technological advances will take over much of their work.  Dominic Diongson, deputy editor for AccountingWEB, explains. To read the full article in AccountingWEB, click:  CPAs Should Shift to Niche Services as Automation Takes Over.

  • QuickPress

    Six Traits of Leading Finance Functions

    September 20, 2017

    CFOs are eager to make the finance function more efficient and useful.  Samantha White, CGMA Magazine senior editor, explains what leading finance functions have in common. To read the full article in CGMA Magazine, click: Six Traits of Leading Finance Functions.

  • QuickPress

    What will the Labor Force of the Future Look Like?

    November 4, 2015

    Automation anxieties concerning the impact of technology on the labor force go back to the Industrial Revolution.  More recent technological advancements have helped to decrease the separation between work and home life.  However, it seems unlikely technology will lead to widespread unemployment.  Irving Wladawsky-Berger, contributor to CIO Journal, discusses the angst driven by continual automation improvements and what the future may hold for the human workforce. To find out more on The Wall Street Journal article, click: The Future of Jobs: Lessons from History.