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Business & Finance · Updated Aug 2026

Accountant

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.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
67/100
High

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
61/100
High

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence80/100
Task coverage82%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Supervise auditing of establishments, and determine scope of investigation required.High
71
Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.High
71
Report to management regarding the finances of establishment.High
72
Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.High
61
Establish tables of accounts and assign entries to proper accounts.High
73
Develop, implement, modify, and document recordkeeping and accounting systems, making use of current computer technology.Medium
70
Collect and analyze data to detect deficient controls, duplicated effort, extravagance, fraud, or non-compliance with laws, regulations, and management policies.High
63
Inspect account books and accounting systems for efficiency, effectiveness, and use of accepted accounting procedures to record transactions.High
58
Direct activities of personnel engaged in filing, recording, compiling, and transmitting financial records.Medium
73
Report to management about asset utilization and audit results, and recommend changes in operations and financial activities.High
72
Confer with company officials about financial and regulatory matters.High
72
Examine records and interview workers to ensure recording of transactions and compliance with laws and regulations.High
54
Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting, or other tax requirements.High
75
Examine and evaluate financial and information systems, recommending controls to ensure system reliability and data integrity.High
61
Evaluate taxpayer finances to determine tax liability, using knowledge of interest and discount rates, annuities, valuation of stocks and bonds, and amortization valuation of depletable assets.Medium
70
Review taxpayer accounts, and conduct audits on-site, by correspondence, or by summoning taxpayer to office.High
73
Inspect cash on hand, notes receivable and payable, negotiable securities, and canceled checks to confirm records are accurate.High
55
Examine whether the organization's objectives are reflected in its management activities, and whether employees understand the objectives.Medium
55
Audit payroll and personnel records to determine unemployment insurance premiums, workers' compensation coverage, liabilities, and compliance with tax laws.Medium
75
Conduct pre-implementation audits to determine if systems and programs under development will work as planned.Medium
71
Advise clients in areas such as compensation, employee health care benefits, the design of accounting or data processing systems, or long-range tax or estate plans.High
66
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting, or other tax requirements.75
  2. Audit payroll and personnel records to determine unemployment insurance premiums, workers' compensation coverage, liabilities, and compliance with tax laws.75
  3. Establish tables of accounts and assign entries to proper accounts.73
  4. Direct activities of personnel engaged in filing, recording, compiling, and transmitting financial records.73
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Supervise auditing of establishments, and determine scope of investigation required.01
  2. Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.02
  3. Report to management regarding the finances of establishment.03
  4. Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.04
  5. Establish tables of accounts and assign entries to proper accounts.05
Where else this work leads

Related occupations

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency72
Physical dependency18
Adoption pressure71
Labour-market resilience53
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence80/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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