The SoftCo AI in Finance 2026 CFO guide explains how AI and automation are becoming essential to modern finance functions by boosting accounts payable (AP) efficiency, ensuring compliance, and transforming routine workflows into strategic value drivers. It highlights that finance leaders must automate manual, error-prone tasks—like invoice capture, matching, approvals, and reconciliations—to cut costs, speed cycle times, and strengthen audit readiness, compliance, and fraud detection. AP automation powered by AI enables touchless processing, full invoice visibility, and real-time controls that reduce cycle times, improve working capital management, and free finance teams to focus on forecasting, analysis, and strategic planning. The guide also stresses the importance of reducing fragmented

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