Are accounting and finance roles fundamentally changing in

Are they going away? At times, I'm a parrot of this information, so I'm constantly listening to what private equity firms are doing with accounting in particular.

There's a large private equity firm on the tech side that we work with.

And let's say two and a half, three years ago, everything I heard from them was offshoring and outsourcing.

I'll say operational accounting, shared services functions, things like ARAP, fixed assets, payroll.

When I spoke to them more recently, what they were telling me was that they put some of these offshore entities on maybe, let's say, year to year or month to month arrangements with a little more optionality or flexibility.

At the same time, what they're trying to do is anything that's some level of a repeatable process, seeking to utilize AI to automate those functions, to then in turn have smaller teams led by people that are using AI to do things more efficiently.

The systems that you did use, did it accelerate even slightly before you got to the point where, okay, now I've had a conversation and I've picked up on verbally and cues that I'm like, this might not be the right person.