Can AI do bookkeeping?
Yes — AI can reliably do the intake side of bookkeeping today: watching the mailbox for supplier invoices, entering supplier, date, number, amount and VAT, and filing each document the same day it arrives. It does not keep the books, file taxes or give advice — that stays with your accountant.
The useful way to answer is to split bookkeeping into intake and judgment. Intake is the mechanical part: invoices arrive, someone extracts the fields, enters them, and files the document. That is repetitive, rule-following work, and it is exactly the part an AI employee like Nika does — from $0.40 per processed invoice, paid only for finished units.
The judgment side is different. Deciding how to treat an unusual transaction, filing taxes, and advising on structure all require context and responsibility. Nika does not do those. She sends anything unclear to you before it touches the books, and your accountant keeps the decisions. The what is an AI employee guide explains the boundary in detail.
Related questions
Can AI replace my accountant?
No. AI bookkeeping handles the intake — entering and filing invoices the day they arrive. Your accountant keeps the books, files taxes and advises; AI hands them complete, same-day records instead of a pile of unread mail.
Is AI bookkeeping accurate?
The accuracy comes from not guessing: anything unclear goes to a human approval queue before it reaches the records, and finished work is checked against the source document. Reported mistakes are corrected free and refunded within a monthly cap.