Opinion ·
Generative AI in corporate finance: could the remedy make the problem worse?
Original title, in French: “IA générative en finance d'entreprise : le remède qui pourrait aggraver le mal ?”
- Publication
- Journal du Net (France)
- Author
- Eric Vidal
- Published on
- 16 September 2026 · read in the page structured data
Summary
The article explains that administrative and finance departments (DAFs), faced with a skills shortage and a loss of business knowledge as staff retire, are urgently adopting consumer generative AI tools. According to the text, these tools, which lack business context (accounting rules, local taxation, governance), can produce systemic, invisible errors that conventional internal control mechanisms do not detect. It cites that in France nearly one DAF in two sees the skills shortage as a major obstacle, that three quarters of companies struggled to recruit in 2023, and that more than half of French executives already suffer the consequences of erroneous financial data. The article recommends moving to specialised, governed and traceable industry-specific AI rather than generic tools.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
Read the article on Journal du Net →Figures cited
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50 %
share of French DAFs who see the lack of in-house skills as a major obstacle
DAFs, France
« En France, près d'un DAF sur deux perçoit le manque de compétences internes comme l'un des principaux freins à la modernisation technologique de sa fonction. »
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75 %
share of companies with recruitment difficulties in 2023
companies, 2023
« trois quarts des entreprises éprouvaient déjà d'immenses difficultés à recruter au cours de l'année 2023 »
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50 %
share of French executives suffering the consequences of erroneous financial data
executives, France
« plus de la moitié des dirigeants français subissent déjà les conséquences stratégiques de données financières erronées »
Classification
- Country
- France
- Company size
- All sizes
- Industries
- Banking, insurance, asset management, finance departments
- Keywords
- finance department, talent shortage, generative AI, internal control, data governance, business knowledge
Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Journal du Net and its author. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.