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The fastest way to waste money on AI in an accounting firm is to buy a tool that looks great in a demo and quietly dies in the trenches. We’ve all seen it: licenses get activated, dashboards look shiny, and then busy season hits and everyone goes back to the old way because the workflow doesn’t fit, the rollout is fuzzy, and the team is exhausted by yet another “game-changing” system.

We talk with Peter McCarroll, CPA and AI advisor, about what actually makes AI adoption stick in bookkeeping, tax preparation, and client advisory services. Peter reframes AI as a thinking partner and makes a blunt point: buying software isn’t transformation. The real work starts with leadership, clear problems to solve, and pilots that prove we can work the software, not just that the software works. We dig into cultural resistance, staff fear, and the hidden ways “we’ve always done it this way” can signal a firm that’s about to fall behind.

From there we get tactical: how to avoid shelfware with small pilot groups, why “AI and the gaps” is the best place to start (especially when platforms like QuickBooks and desktop tax tools limit integration), and how to measure success beyond time saved by looking at whose time you’re saving. We also explore where tax automation is moving fastest right now around the tax binder and document intake, plus how AI can expand your advisory scope into profitability drivers like sales, marketing, and operations.

If you feel the clock ticking, you’re not imagining it. Peter argues firms have one busy season, maybe two, to get moving. Listen, share this with a firm owner who needs it, and subscribe so you don’t miss what’s next.

Peter McCarroll LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petermccarroll/

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