AI USE CASES YOU CAN REUSE.English edition · Individuals, independents, small businesses
INDUSTRY · 17 SPOTTED CASES

AI and accounting: invoices, entries, payroll and control

This page brings together the publicly described uses of AI in corporate accounting and finance: accounting firms, supplier invoice control, billing and payroll, procurement, financial management and management control. Each case refers to its source; the figures are those of the source, and the editor did not test these uses.

For a TPE or an independent, three practical cases written by the editor, with a prompting to repeat, complete the selection. Tax rules and deadlines are verified on impots.gouv.fr or with your accountant, never in the answer of an AI.

This selection has 17 spotted cases. 12 concern an organisation in France or the French-speaking world. Proof levels: 9 « Testimony published by an identified source » and 8 « Statement by the tool’s publisher ». Most cited tools: Gemini (3), Claude (3) and ChatGPT (2).

IN THE DIRECTORY

Recurring caveats

  • 6 cards out of 17 mention human rereading or validation.
  • 4 cards out of 17 mention verification of figures, sources or extracts.
  • 3 cards out of 17 mention a legal, tax or compliance framework.
  • 2 cards out of 17 mention what the tool can send or create on its own.
  • 2 cards out of 17 mention personal data, a trade secret or the.

Count taken from the “vigilance” field of the cards on this page, without rephrasing the caveats.

WITH THEIR SOURCE

17 spotted cases

Accounting firms and tax networks

Supplier invoices: read, control, reconcile

Facturation clients, virements et paie

Procurement and compliance

  • Entrust officers with small order management and procurement compliance controlsTestimony published by an identified source · Agents IA (Dataiku) · Source checked on 10 November 2026

    Alstom has put procurement and finance agents in production: order management of low-cost components, assistance to the financial services centre and compliance check between purchase request and purchase order.

  • Automatically check purchase requests beyond a thresholdStatement by the tool’s publisher · Codex · Source checked on 10 November 2026

    At Cars24, a team finances using Codex to reread applications and purchase orders above a threshold: the tool reports anomalies and can approve files without warning on its own.

Financial Directorate, Management Control and Procedures

  • Structure management control meetings and archive data that arrive in staggeredStatement by the tool’s publisher · Microsoft 365 · Source checked on 10 November 2026

    Cécile Billon, manager at Nancy's CHRU, chats with Copilot to advance his thinking, relies on Microsoft Loop for meeting pages that enrich from one session to the next, and automated data archiving at the reception.

  • Reform e-mails, synthesize files and prepare presentations to Finance BranchStatement by the tool’s publisher · Microsoft 365 Copilot · Source checked on 10 November 2026

    At Nancy's CHRU, Justine Paté-Madesclaire uses Microsoft 365 Copilot daily in Outlook, Word and PowerPoint, and estimates that it will earn between one and three hours a week depending on the topics; The experiment has increased from 50 to 300 users, excluding medical data.

  • Train new entrants of financial services faster with a chatbot on proceduresTestimony published by an identified source · Prisme.ai · Source checked on 10 November 2026

    Air Liquide has put online, as the first product of its Hub LLM, a multilingual chatbot that answers questions from employees of its shared financial services about their processes and procedures.

  • Answer 24/7 travel policy questions, in French and English, without saturating the finance boxStatement by the tool’s publisher · Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat / Copilot Studio · Source checked on 10 November 2026

    The Public Service Commission of Canada has commissioned an agent Copilot Studio: -90 per cent of e-mails to the travel box, complex issues from 5 days to 10–30 seconds, approximately CAD $120,000 in avoided mail.

Expenditure and justification

WRITTEN BY THE DESK

Practical cases (3)

Scenarios for the French context, not testimonies.

SKILLS

Official skills for spreadsheets and PDFs.

Summarised in English from their SKILL.md; licence and installation on each card.

The whole library
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Create and analyze Excel spreadsheets

xlsx

Serves as soon as a spreadsheet file is the main deliverable: open, read, edit or correct a `.xlsx`, `.xlsm`, `.xltx`, `.csv` or `.tsv` (columns, formulas, formatting, graphics, cleaning), create a binder, or convert between tabular formats.

Demonstration
Tools: Claude Code, Claude.ai, API ClaudeLevel: Beginnerupdated 06/11/2026
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Everything with PDFs

pdf

Covers most operations on PDFs: extract text and tables, merge, cut, rotate, watermark, create, fill out forms, encrypt or decipher, extract images and make a scan searchable by OCR.

Demonstration
Tools: Claude Code, Claude.ai, API ClaudeLevel: Beginnerupdated 06/11/2026
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