Does AI bookkeeping replace my accountant?
No — AI bookkeeping takes the intake work off your plate, not the accountant off your payroll. Entering and filing supplier invoices the day they arrive is what an AI employee like Nika does, from $0.40 per processed invoice. Keeping the books, filing taxes and advising stay with your accountant — who now gets complete, same-day records instead of a pile of unread mail.
Think of it as the difference between typing and deciding. AI bookkeeping does the typing: extract supplier, date, number, amount and VAT; file the document; flag what does not match. It never guesses, and it does not interpret — anything unusual stops in the approval queue. Nika is built exactly this way.
The judgment work — how to treat an unusual transaction, tax planning, filing — needs context and responsibility that an AI employee deliberately does not take on. The what is an AI employee guide and the why page both make this boundary explicit. Your accountant keeps every decision; AI just makes sure the raw material arrives on time.
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Will AI bookkeeping make my accountant cheaper?
Possibly — because your accountant no longer spends hours typing invoices from your inbox, the monthly close is faster. What they charge for their time is their call; the AI side is charged per finished invoice only.
Does my accountant need to do anything different?
No. They receive the same records, entered on the same day the invoices arrived instead of whenever someone found the time. The approval queue keeps them in the loop on anything unusual.