Getting AI to produce a useful number is the easy part. Proving how it got there is where finance teams stall. One financial analyst builds something that works, then three people build three versions of it, none of them tie, and a figure reaches the close file with nothing traceable behind it.
That is the gap between one person’s spreadsheet and a process the department can rely on. AI widens it in both directions. The useful stuff gets done faster, and so does the result nobody can explain when the auditor asks.