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Chartered Accountants Ireland calls for AI-ready infrastructure
Key takeaways
- Chartered Accountants Ireland calls for AI-ready infrastructure.
- The paper emphasises that in an AI-led economy, accountants will remain central as trusted business advisers, providing governance, ethical oversight and assurance to underpin accountable decision-making.
- It rejects claims that AI will displace accountants, instead depicting the profession as adapting to work alongside new tools.
Chartered Accountants Ireland calls for AI-ready infrastructure. The position paper notes that AI is already in use across audit · The Accountant Ellichipuram Umesh Thu, May 21, 2026 at 9:47 PM GMT+7 2 min read Chartered Accountants Ireland has released a position paper on the future of AI and accountancy.
The institute, which has 40,000 members, called on the government for investment in “AI-ready” infrastructure, targeted assistance to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) adopt AI and the integration of AI skills in education.
The paper emphasises that in an AI-led economy, accountants will remain central as trusted business advisers, providing governance, ethical oversight and assurance to underpin accountable decision-making.
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