Microsoft Copilot adds accounting skills to Excel for transaction matching

Microsoft Copilot announces new accounting skills in Copilot in Excel that match transactions, flag exceptions, and trace calculations to their sources.

The company says the user's judgment guides the final decision. The skills are part of more than 25 new finance skills and plugins Microsoft is bringing to Copilot, according to a separate post that shows the Excel accounting skills in a demo video. Microsoft says the tools are meant to reduce the time finance professionals spend assembling work so they can spend more time applying their expertise.