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The AI Squeeze — How Automation Is Compressing the Bottom and Expanding the Top of the Profession

The AI Squeeze — How Automation Is Compressing the Bottom and Expanding the Top of the Profession

Update: 2025-11-06
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AI isn’t killing accounting. It’s reorganizing it.

In this episode, Lee Reams II and Rebekah Barton dig into how automation is reshaping the profession... compressing the repetitive, low-value work at the bottom and expanding opportunities at the top where strategy, storytelling, and human relationships live.

This isn’t about fear. It’s about leverage. The smartest firms are using AI to scale faster, deepen client connections, and free up time for higher-value work.

You’ll also hear how CountingWorks PRO is leading the shift with AI-driven systems that personalize client experiences, automate proposals, and help five-person firms perform like twenty.

What You’ll Learn:

  • Why the traditional accounting pyramid is flipping and what’s next
  • What tasks AI can handle today and where humans still need to lead
  • How to “trust but verify” your AI workflows
  • The four biggest risks firms need to manage
  • Why the next two years are for scale, not survival
  • How AI is changing the path for young professionals

Favorite Quotes:

  • “AI isn’t replacing people... it’s replacing inefficiency.”
  • “AI doesn’t make you less human... it gives you time to be more human.”
  • “The real disruption won’t come from AI... it’ll come from the firms who learn how to lead with it.”

Listen if you want to:

  • Understand what’s really happening with AI in accounting
  • Combine automation and expertise for smarter growth
  • Build a modern firm that thrives on change

👉 Learn more: CountingWorks PRO


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The AI Squeeze — How Automation Is Compressing the Bottom and Expanding the Top of the Profession

The AI Squeeze — How Automation Is Compressing the Bottom and Expanding the Top of the Profession

Lee Reams II from CountingWorks PRO