Will AI replace Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks?

Many of your tasks are within reach of AI. The role will change, so it pays to act now.

Task exposure to today's AI

56/100

High exposure

This is the occupation's typical task mix. Your own score can be up to 30 points higher or lower depending on how you work: routine share, people contact, judgment and how much you already use AI.

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Will AI replace Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks?

Not entirely. Today's AI tools can take on about 56% of the typical work in this occupation, mostly: classify, record, and summarize numerical and financial data to compile and keep financial records, using journals and ledgers or computers. The parts that stay human include: Operate computers programmed with accounting software to record, store, and analyze information.; Check figures, postings, and documents for correct entry, mathematical accuracy, and proper codes.; Prepare and process payroll information..

People who learn to use AI for the automatable parts keep the edge. The 3-phase plan below shows where to start.

Which tasks AI can take on

The largest tasks in this occupation, their share of the working week, and how much of each today's AI tools can do.

TaskAutomatable

Classify, record, and summarize numerical and financial data to compile and keep financial records, using journals and ledgers or computers.AI already used 72%

Perform general office duties, such as filing, answering telephones, and handling routine correspondence. 68%

Reconcile or note and report discrepancies found in records. 62%

Operate computers programmed with accounting software to record, store, and analyze information.AI already used 50%

Check figures, postings, and documents for correct entry, mathematical accuracy, and proper codes. 50%

Prepare and process payroll information. 47%

+ 22 more tasks (55% of the week) in the full test.

Your human edge

Operate computers programmed with accounting software to record, store, and analyze information.
Check figures, postings, and documents for correct entry, mathematical accuracy, and proper codes.
Prepare and process payroll information.

AI tools to try

Microsoft 365 Copilot or Google Gemini for WorkspaceChatGPT / Claude for emails and documentsAutomation tools (Power Automate, Zapier, Make)

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A 3-phase AI learning plan

Phase 1

Automate the routine

Emails, letters and documents from templates with AI.
Data entry and extraction from forms and PDFs.
Spreadsheet work with AI help.

Project

Use AI to extract line items from 50 scanned supplier invoices into a coded spreadsheet, then compare keying time and error count against your manual baseline.

Phase 2

Workflows across tools

Connect email, forms and spreadsheets with no-code automations.
Checks and controls on automated steps.
Document how each workflow works.

Project

Build a no-code workflow that pulls emailed receipts into a shared sheet, flags missing codes or duplicate amounts for review, and document it in a one-page runbook.

Phase 3

From doing to coordinating

Become the person who maintains the team's automations.
Train colleagues.
Look at roles in operations, coordination or process improvement.

Project

Take ownership of three team automations, write a maintenance checklist, and train two colleagues in a 60-minute session, tracking hours saved per month after handover.

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