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AI-Assisted Multi-GAAP Reconciliation Frameworks: A Paradigm Shift in Global Financial Practices

Anjali Kale
Ennov – Solutions Inc, USA
DOI Crossref DOI 10.37547/tajas/Volume07Issue07-07
tajas 2025
VOL. 7 / NO. 07 JULY
FULL TEXT PP. 67-77
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VOLUME 7
ISSUE 07
YEAR 2025
PAGES 67-77
RESEARCH OVERVIEW

Abstract

Multinational corporations face a trend of an even more globalized business environment in which they are obliged to report consolidated financial statements using various accounting regulations, including US GAAP, IFRS and local statutory GAAPs within a few days of quarter-end. This process of financial reporting reconciliation among different regulatory regimes and accounting standards has become more complex and expensive at times often involving thousands of labor hours and has a high probability of introducing a human error. Manual entry of ledger and chart of account and disclosure into different forms is not only a tedious business, but is subject to inaccuracies which may lead to accounting reports and financial misstatement, regulatory fine and loss of stakeholder’s confidence.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) which previously was left to automate simple processes provides a scalable and transformative answer to this multidimensional problem. Enhancements of advanced rule-based mapping engines by machine-learning models allow detecting patterns in financial data, detecting anomalies, and even creating adjusting journal entries automatically. This research article leads to a multifaced structure of AI-enabled multi-GAAP reconciliation, it explores regulatory incentives, taxonomy distinctions, data-model designs, algorithmic strategies, and control demands. The framework also describes the real world opportunities and constraints of these systems providing the opportunity to draw a balanced view as exposed by the analysis of pros and cons and roadmap of implementation. In practice-oriented case studies of a fortune 200 tech giant, a European unicorn, and a Latin American energy conglomerate, the real-world results are shown as cycling-time decreases by as much as 65% and a 40% reduction of audit results. The paper ends in a practical AI governance checklist consistent with the principles of COSO internal controls and NIST AI risk management, as well as new digital-reporting guidelines, published by the IASB.

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Multi-GAAP Reconciliation Financial Consolidation Cross-GAAP Adjustments Accounting Automation

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