Job page · SOC 13-2011

Accountants and auditors

aidoom.ai editorial team · Data as of August 2026 · Updated 15 Oct 2026

Not on current projections. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment of accountants and auditors to grow 5% from 2025 to 2035, with about 115,300 openings a year. The work itself is highly exposed: in the GPTs are GPTs study (2023), human raters judged that a language model, alone or inside other software, could halve the time needed for 26 of the job's 30 O*NET tasks, a score in the top third of 923 occupations. Exposure means the tasks could change, not that the job disappears.

AI exposureHigh

LowMediumHigh

Score 0.52 (26 of 30 tasks exposed)

Projected change, 2025 to 2035+5.0%

Openings each year115,300

How the exposure level is set

Main tasks and their AI exposure

E1 · LLM aloneE2 · With added softwareE0 · Not exposed

Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.E2 · With added software

Process invoices for payment.E2 · With added software

Review accounts for discrepancies and reconcile differences.E0 · Not exposed

Prepare adjusting journal entries.E2 · With added software

Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting, or other tax requirements.E2 · With added software

Inspect account books and accounting systems for efficiency, effectiveness, and use of accepted accounting procedures to record transactions.E2 · With added software

Prepare detailed reports on audit findings.E1 · LLM alone

Prepare, analyze, or verify annual reports, financial statements, and other records, using accepted accounting and statistical procedures to assess financial condition and facilitate financial planning.E2 · With added software

Collect and analyze data to detect deficient controls, duplicated effort, extravagance, fraud, or non-compliance with laws, regulations, and management policies.E2 · With added software

Review data about material assets, net worth, liabilities, capital stock, surplus, income, or expenditures.E2 · With added software

The 10 most important tasks for this job in O*NET 31.0. Labels are the human ratings from the GPTs are GPTs study (2023): E1, a language model alone could halve the time the task takes; E2, it could with extra software built on a language model; E0, neither. They measure what the technology could do, not what employers have adopted.

Related roles with a lower exposure score

Occupations O*NET lists as closely related to this one.

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks

ExposureMedium

O*NET related occupation (SOC 43-3031). Exposure score 0.31. BLS projects a 6% decline from 2025 to 2035, with about 144,100 openings a year.

Treasurers and controllers

ExposureMedium

O*NET related occupation (O*NET-SOC 11-3031.01, part of financial managers). Exposure score 0.41.

Financial managers

ExposureHigh

O*NET related occupation (SOC 11-3031). Exposure score 0.43. BLS projects 10% growth from 2025 to 2035, with about 65,600 openings a year.

Data sources and method

Projections and openingsUS Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025-35, Table 1.2 Occupational Outlook Handbook: Accountants and auditorsReleased August 27, 2026

Tasks and related rolesO*NET 31.0 Database, USDOL/ETA, used under CC BY 4.0O*NET-SOC 13-2011.00 · August 2026

ExposureEloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, GPTs are GPTs (arXiv preprint, 2023); occupation and task data (MIT licence)Human-rated beta score

How the level is set: the study's human raters labelled each O*NET task by whether a language model could cut the time it takes by half or more. The score is the share of tasks rated exposed, with tasks that need extra software counted at half weight (the paper's main measure). We do not rate jobs ourselves. We only split the 923 occupations in the study into thirds: Low below 0.160, Medium from 0.160 to below 0.413, High from 0.413. The ratings date from 2023 and used O*NET 27.2 task lists, so they do not reflect newer AI tools. Exposure is not a forecast of job losses; the BLS projections are a separate source.

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