AI can make a weak financial process look impressively finished. It can organize transactions, summarize a variance, draft an owner explanation, and identify a pattern in seconds. If the ledger underneath that work is wrong, the output can still sound certain. AI on a messy ledger just makes confident mistakes. The solution is not to reject automation. It is to design the workflow so speed never outruns control. Start by dividing the work into two categories. AI is useful for
