Draft talk:AI in financial close

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Submission note for reviewer

Thank you for reviewing the draft of "Artificial Intelligence in Financial Close." This article covers the growing application of AI in financial close processes, a topic increasingly relevant in academic, audit, and enterprise finance contexts.

In response to reviewer feedback, the following issues have been addressed:

• Promotional tone and editorializing
• Vague or speculative statements
• Essay-like writing
• Hallucinations and non-existent references
• Close paraphrasing

The article now uses inline citations consistently, with a balanced mix of academic and industry sources, all meeting WP:RS and WP:V.

If any further concerns or improvements are needed, I’m happy to make additional adjustments. Please provide specific feedback to help finalize the article for mainspace. Herohcreatives (talk) 10:51, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Addition of McKinsey 2023 source

Hi, I’ve expanded the article to strengthen sourcing and address earlier concerns about notability. In particular, I added McKinsey’s State of AI in 2023 report, which shows that one-third of organizations were already using generative AI in at least one business function. This helps establish the adoption baseline before the 2024 and 2025 reports, creating a clearer timeline of how AI in financial close has developed.

I hope this addition clarifies the progression of coverage and supports the topic’s standing as a distinct area of AI in finance. Herohcreatives (talk) 16:44, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Notability clarification

Hi Caleb Stanford, thanks for the feedback. I understand the concern around notability, but I’d like to point out that AI in financial close is receiving direct and growing coverage from independent and reliable sources. This is not just a general mention of “AI in finance", multiple reports and studies specifically address the financial close process as a distinct area of AI application.

For example:

• McKinsey surveys in 2023 and 2024 documented the rapid rise of generative AI adoption, with finance functions like corporate finance highlighted among the leading use cases.
• Deloitte (2024) and KPMG (2025) both released reports focused on how generative and agent-based AI are reshaping financial close workflows.
• The World Economic Forum (2025) identified financial close as one of the financial services processes with the highest automation potential.
• Gartner (2025) reported measurable reductions in close cycle times due to AI-enabled methods.
• Peer-reviewed studies, such as Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (2025), have systematically reviewed AI’s integration in financial services, including close and reconciliation.

While the field is still emerging, the presence of consistent coverage across consulting firms, academic journals, and global organizations shows that “AI in financial close” is being recognized as a distinct area of practice. For these reasons, I believe the topic meets Wikipedia’s notability threshold as an emerging subfield. Herohcreatives (talk) 16:57, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Herohcreatives: The topic is not notable in my estimation. If you are using AI to generate talk page messages, please note that this is against Wikipedia's rules. Caleb Stanford (talk) 18:45, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I want to clarify that I am not using AI to generate my talk page message, I write them myself. The reason it took me sometimes to reply to your message is because I had to go back and do more research on the topic and check each reference to ensure each claim is properly backed up.

That said, I will appreciate we keep the discussion on the notability issue and the article content. If you fell the topic is not notable, kindly point out the specific source gap or policy-base reason so they can be addressed directly. I am open to your suggestion. Thank you Herohcreatives (talk) 01:38, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]