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Recently, Accounting Today hosted an in-depth panel discussion featuring Tom Koehler (Intapp) and Stuart Ferguson (Pointe Advisory), moderated by Michael Green (Accounting Today). The session explored findings from Accounting Today’s latest research survey and examined how private equity (PE), capital strategy, and AI adoption are transforming the accounting industry.

This recap summarizes the research objectives,

Audit quality failures don’t only lead to regulatory fines — they also destroy client relationships, damage firm reputations, and cost millions in revenue loss. And yet, some accounting firms are still using outdated systems to manage audit engagements, putting them and their clients at risk.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) reported finding deficiencies

AI is no longer a boardroom buzzword — it’s here and it’s moving fast. Executives across industries are looking to innovations in AI to improve and accelerate their firms’ efficiency, performance, and growth.

But without the right foundations in place, AI initiatives will falter or fail. According to McKinsey, 88% of organizations now use

DealCloud’s AI-driven deal and pipeline management capabilities recognized forexcellence among service providers in the private equity market

Palo Alto, Calif., November 7, 2025 — Intapp (NASDAQ: INTA), a leading global provider of AI-powered solutions for professionals at advisory, capital markets, and legal firms, announced today that Intapp DealCloud was named Deal Origination Solution of the

Recently, the LP Tech Summit brought together leaders from across private markets; LPs, GPs, data vendors, and infrastructure providers to talk about how technology is reshaping the way capital moves.

This year’s theme was clear: AI isn’t the advantage, adoption is.

Below are some key insights I took away from the different sessions and conversations

Every day, timekeepers lose billable hours they’ll never recover. Not because they didn’t do the work, but because their timekeeping systems make it too difficult to capture it accurately and quickly.
  • A partner logs time from memory at the end of a 12-hour day, forgetting half the client calls.
  • An associate abandons a time entry

Law firms can spend countless hours on a critical but time-intensive process: identifying and cataloging client requirements during new business intake.

That’s why, way back in 2017, Intapp introduced an AI feature in Intapp Terms that identified and categorized terms of business. It helped document reviewers easily access and validate those terms, as well as