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Accounting Technology Funding Report: September 2026

Accounting and finance software companies raised US$340m across 8 rounds in September. Jeeves raised the largest round, US$110m led by CoinFund, and Insight Partners led two rounds, Numeral and Confido.

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Full article: https://t.co/niT7DFk3wU

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Kerstin Lopatta resigned as chair of EFRAG’s Sustainability Reporting Board on 30 September, five months into a three-year term. EFRAG’s General Assembly appointed Kristian Koktvedgaard as acting chair. Revised ESRS enter into force on 10 November and apply from 1 January 2027.

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@cohnreznick acquired Aldrich, a Top 75 firm, in a deal expected to close in mid-December. The transaction adds more than $108m in revenue to the Top 25 firm.

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@ifac have introduced a Client Classification Tool for small and medium-sized accounting practices.

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Full article: https://t.co/r9i5Dzy2ue

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BlackLine ended 2025 with 4,394 customers and moved to platform pricing based on finance function size and complexity. FloQast lists no per-user fees. Numeric prices by transaction volume and seats. BlackLine, FloQast, Numeric and Trintech publish no list prices.

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@iaasb_news have introduced an interactive digital version of its Technology Catalog.

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Full article: https://t.co/eOypXdaaF7

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Medius surveyed 2,386 senior finance professionals in the US, UK, Sweden and France. Some 87% had ignored a small expense, reimbursement or claim they believed was fraudulent. Medius calls the small, low-tech dishonesty “shallowfakes”.

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AI accounting software for firms now divides into five task categories: bookkeeping, extraction, close, tax and advisory drafting. Published entry prices run from £24.17 a month for Dext to $1,498 a year per user for Blue J.

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38.2% of internal audit professionals selected planning and risk assessment as the area where AI could create the most value for their teams.

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Only 24% of organisations maintain CPA-only requirements. Others are automating work, broadening hiring to non-traditional backgrounds or sourcing accounting talent externally.

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@ManCity Full article: https://t.co/hhObbwmzKI

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A Premier League commission found @ManCity filed misstated accounts and concealed its true finances from auditors from 2009/10 to 2017/18. City has appealed. City’s reports list BDO LLP as auditor for the years ended June 2018 to June 2025.

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Jeeves raised US$110m in a funding round led by CoinFund.

Expense and Spend Management.

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Certos surveyed 230 senior finance executives. AI-generated or AI-enhanced content appeared in attempted fraud at 81% of their companies in the past year. Only half were very or extremely confident they could identify an AI fraud attempt before money left.

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@Wolters_Kluwer Full article: https://t.co/lCILCuFter

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@Wolters_Kluwer added agentic tax preparation to TaxWise. The software organises client documents, maps tax data, flags issues and drafts review-ready returns. Preparers review, edit, validate and approve each return before filing.