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Microsoft 365 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Accounting skills

Streamline corporate accounting work New accounting capabilities in Excel and Cowork help accountants spend less time on repetitive, manual tasks in the places they already work, including: • Reconcile accounts with confidence: Compare balances and transactions, identify discrepancies, and prepare reconciling items for review. • Prepare journal entries faster: Draft accruals, reclassifications, allocations, reversals, and recurring entries, with checks for required inputs and balanced entries. • Turn results into clear reporting: Analyze financial performance against plan, identify key drivers, and prepare reporting that explains what changed and why. Additional capabilities span audit, tax, FP&A, compliance, and training. Learn more about the full set of accounting capabilities here. Accountants are already putting these capabilities to work. In seven days of limited Insiders availability, more than 8,000 unique users invoked accounting skills over 44,000 times across more than 18,000 Copilot conversations. Across Excel and Cowork, finance professionals will also have the option to start an audit trail whenever they invoke an accounting capability. If selected, this will create a…

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Roadmap ID
578864
Status
In development
General availability target
November CY2026
Preview target
October CY2026
Products
Excel, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
Clouds
Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Release phases
General Availability, Preview
Platforms
Desktop, Mac, Web
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5 Nov 2026 23:59 UTC
Last changed
5 Nov 2026 23:59 UTC

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  1. 6 Nov 2026 · 07:02:05 UTC Link: Microsoft 365 Message Center Archive by Merill Fernandohttps://mc.merill.net/message/RM578864
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