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Accountant: will AI take this job?

70%High exposure
Excel was the first warning. You ignored it.

Why

Bookkeeping and payroll are highly automatable. Advice, judgement and dealing with the tax office in person much less so.

Where to look next

  1. Tax advisor for small businesses
  2. Financial controller / business partner
  3. Forensic accountant (catching fraud, including AI-assisted fraud)

What AI already does

  • Booking invoices
  • Reconciliations and reports
  • Payroll calculations

What stays human

  • Tax strategy and advice
  • Talking to the tax office
  • Judgement in grey areas

Skills worth learning — Finance & law

  • Advisory and client relationships
  • Data and AI literacy
  • Regulation of AI and new tech

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For fun, not a forecast. Scores are our rough estimates of how much of a job’s tasks AI can already help with, based on the ILO (2025) and Microsoft Research (2025) studies. Exposure usually means the job changes, not that it disappears — the ILO puts about 1 in 4 jobs worldwide in exposed occupations, but only 3.3% in the highest category.