Productivity · News · 🇧🇷 Brazil
60-year-old accounting firm uses AI to review financial statements and a bot for FGTS
Gomide Contabilidade (Brasília) is testing AI that cross-checks the trial balance, income statement and balance sheet; an RPA bot cut FGTS control from 10 to 15 days to about 36 minutes.
- Profession
- Accountant
- Tools
- RPA, Python
- Source
- contabeis.com.br ↗
- Country
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Report date
- October 26, 2026
- Verified on
- November 1, 2026
See more: AI for accountants
What they did
Gomide Contabilidade, in Taguatinga (Federal District, Brazil), has its own technology department that turns bottlenecks in the daily routine into internal tools. A robotic process automation (RPA) bot handles FGTS (severance fund) control for about 800 companies, a Python automation tracks licenses for about 900 companies at the commercial registry, and owner payroll for 600 companies is processed in batch. The next step is AI in accounting review: the firm is already testing and using in operations an AI system that cross-checks the trial balance, income statement and balance sheet and flags inconsistencies against Brazilian accounting standards (CPC) before they reach the client.
How it went
According to the article, FGTS control, which took 10 to 15 days, now runs in about 36 minutes. That gain came from the RPA bot, not from AI. The source gives no figures for the AI review.
Good to know
RPA repeats fixed steps; AI comes in where interpretation is needed, such as finding inconsistencies between statements. The firm itself says a system alone does not solve it: the value lies in combining technology, process and technical interpretation.
The prompt
I will paste the trial balance, income statement and balance sheet of [fictitious company] for [period]. Cross-check the three and list inconsistencies: balances that do not match across statements, accounts with an inverted sign, unusual variations and points that need checking against [applicable standard]. For each item, say where to look. Do not fix anything, just build the list for me to review.
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