Copilot for finance expands accounting skills in Excel
By Steven Van ·
Microsoft expanded finance skills on October 29. Accounting work in Excel is on Frontier, and a wider set of finance skills is generally available.
On October 29, Microsoft Copilot posted new accounting skills in Excel: match transactions, flag exceptions, and trace calculations back to their sources, with a person making the final call. The blog the post links is a wider finance announcement.
Microsoft says it is expanding Copilot for finance with more than 25 new finance skills and partner-built plugins. The blog describes reconciling accounts by comparing balances and transactions, identifying discrepancies, and tracing what changed in a workbook's history. It does not use the X post's exact phrases for every step.
On the blog's get-started list, accounting in Excel and Cowork is on Frontier, and finance skills in Excel are generally available. Capital markets and finance plugins in Cowork are generally available. A Dynamics 365 ERP plugin and partner plugins are beginning to roll out. The post does not list a price.