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July 2025

“Mera Naya Article Clerk Ek Algorithm Hai” (By A CA Who Misses Paper Vouchers But Loves AI Sarcasm)

By C. N. Vaze, Chartered Accountant
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When our office WhatsApp group lit up with the message “We are going digital!”, I thought we were finally done printing 148-page audit reports just to courier them two buildings away. Little did I know this digital leap meant I’d be sharing my cabin with a machine that doesn’t drink chai, doesn’t gossip, and finishes bank reconciliations faster than I can find my spectacles.

Ladies and Gentlemen, meet RoboCFO – my new article assistant. Technically, HR wants us to call him “AI Assistant (Beta),” but if it balances a trial balance in less time than it takes my human article to log into Traces, it gets a name. Period.

THE ARRIVAL OF THE MACHINE: AAPKA IT ASSISTANT ONLINE HAI

Now, I’ve worked with all kinds of articles—hardworking ones, sleepy ones, the ones who vanish mysteriously at 1:03 PM daily, and of course, the ones who “go on study leave” right before audit season and resurface only after Diwali sweets arrive. But nothing prepared me for RoboCFO.

First day on the job, I asked it to vouch 4,000 purchase invoices.

TIME TAKEN: 4 MINUTES, 18 SECONDS.

Human article Raj watched in horror—like a calculator seeing Excel for the first time.

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