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The use of AI continues to grow in accountancy as practices use it to speed up tasks, draft advisory reports, automate workflows or take meeting minutes. However, delegates at Mercia's Tax Technology Conference were reminded that no matter how sophisticated the tool, the responsibility for the work produced stays with the practitioner.

Chris Whiting of Academy Advisory opened Mercia's Academies Update Conference with a live case study in how a trust unravels.

It’s been a hectic first week for the new PM. A series of announcements at 6am each morning, alongside numerous questions about how the policies are going to be paid for. We try and explain some of the announcements below.

This month’s developments are centred on two themes that are likely to remain high on the profession’s agenda for some time: changes to anti-money laundering regulation and the growing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across accounting, audit and corporate reporting.

June’s tax highlights

Monthly Audit and Accountancy round‑up: Monitoring insights and new filing requirements on the horizon.