Beyond the AI Hype: How Accountants Are Actually Using AI

A practical conversation on turning AI into better workflows, greater capacity and a more efficient accounting practice

How Accounting Firms Are Turning AI Into Real Capacity

No technical knowledge required. No AI hype. Just a practical conversation about what is actually working.

Three Perspectives. One Practical Conversation.

Mark Telford

Founder, Telfords Accountants

Mark is an accountant, practice owner and coach to accounting firms.

Rather than simply talking about AI, Mark has started building it into the way his own practice operates. He'll share the practitioner's perspective — including his recent work developing a year-end workflow using Claude and integrating it with the Corient team supporting his practice.

Punit Jain

Co-founder, Corient

Punit brings over two decades of experience in outsourcing and offshoring and has helped more than 200 UK accounting practices develop their outsourcing strategies.

He'll explore what Corient is seeing across the profession and why the next stage of outsourcing isn't simply about people offshore — it's about combining people, processes and AI to create better capacity and efficiency.

Michael Vaughan

Director of Growth and Strategy, Corient

Michael has spent his career helping UK accounting firms rethink how delivery work gets done, and has seen first-hand which AI and outsourcing initiatives actually stick versus which stall after the pilot stage.

Michael will moderate the conversation, challenging Mark and Punit on the questions accounting firm owners are asking:

Where does AI really work? What should firms be doing now? And what could an AI-enabled accounting practice look like over the next few years?

What You will Walk Away With

By the end of the session, you'll have a clearer understanding of:

Where to start with AI
Identify practical areas where AI can support your firm's existing workflows.
How to move beyond experimentation
Turn individual AI use into repeatable processes across the team.
How AI and outsourcing can work together
See how technology and external teams can become part of one integrated workflow.
What the future accounting team could look like
Consider how the combination of accountants, offshore talent and AI could reshape capacity and productivity.

AI Won't Replace Your Accounting Firm.

But firms that learn how to use it effectively may operate very differently from those that don't.

Join Mark Telford, Punit Jain and Michael Vaughan for a practical conversation about moving AI from something accountants talk about to something accounting firms actually use.

Can’t attend live? Register anyway and we’ll email you the recording afterwards.

All attendees get Mark's year-end workflow template, or a free outsourcing capacity audit