'Plenty of AI tools claim to be built for finance; Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel is proving it in practice': Microsoft is fuelling up Excel with lots more AI tools for finance workers
THE SO WHAT
When Microsoft ships domain-specific Copilot features directly into Excel for finance, the default ‘system of record’ for many teams quietly becomes an AI environment. Finance leaders should stop evaluating AI as a separate tool and instead write guardrails, review flows, and training assuming core workbooks are now partially machine-authored.
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