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Ready for change: The automation upskilling imperative

In our latest blog series, we are revealing insights and exploring industry findings from our Are Friends Electric? survey analyzing attitudes toward financial automation among 500 finance and accounting professionals in the US, UK, France, and Germany. You can find the first three parts of our series here:   Part 1: Automation: threat or opportunity... Read more »

Could financial automation replace your line manager?

In our latest blog series, we are revealing insights and exploring industry findings from our Are Friends Electric? Survey analyzing attitudes toward financial automation among 500 finance and accounting professionals in the US, UK, France, and Germany. You can find the first two parts of this series here: Part 1: Automation: Threat or opportunity? Part... Read more »

The Upside of AP Automation

In our latest blog series, we are revealing insights and exploring the industry findings from our Are Friends Electric? Survey analyzing attitudes toward automation among 500 finance and accounting professionals in the US, UK, France, and German. You can find the first part of this series in Automation: Threat or opportunity?  As we explored in... Read more »

AP Automation: Threat or Opportunity?

Digital technology and the rise of automation have transformed society and the modern workplace. It was digitalization that made it possible for an army of workers to work from home when the world went into lockdown. Now,  it’s started a debate over whether or not we ever really needed to go into the office to... Read more »

Adventures in modern accounting: what all cutting edge finance teams do

It would be an understatement to say that processes among financial teams have changed quite a bit over the last few years. It makes sense: turmoil warrants necessitated change, which ushers in a technological revolution. How many organizations do you know still use the same old, outdated tech stack that’s been around since the early... Read more »

Our Q2 Index of Global Health shows inflation is more than a passing phase

By Christian Lanng, Founder and CEO, Tradeshift Data from Tradeshift’s Q1 Index showed the steepest decline in quarterly activity since the beginning of the pandemic. In Q2 we saw more evidence of a looming recession, with global transaction volumes dropping by a further 6 points against our forecast range. What’s striking about this quarter’s Index... Read more »

How finance professionals really feel about automation

How finance professionals really feel about automation For all the obvious benefits of automation, some frontline accounting and finance workers are understandably nervous about what the future holds for them when machines have become adept at an increasing array of tasks. In April 2022, Tradeshift commissioned research in the US, UK, France and Germany to... Read more »