By Jason Bramwell
Publication Date: 2026-10-30 16:48:00
Microsoft announced Thursday it’s expanding Copilot for finance with more than 25 new finance skills and partner-built plugins, including new accounting capabilities in Excel and new finance and capital markets plugins for Cowork.
The new capabilities follow the finance skills that Microsoft introduced in Excel in June.
“Excel has long been central to how finance professionals analyze, model, and manage their work. But with Copilot, you don’t have to start in Excel. You can work directly in the Copilot app to manage broader finance workflows, bringing in the full power of Excel whenever you need it,” Brian Jones, corporate vice president of the Excel Product Group at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post on Oct. 29.
He says the new accounting capabilities, available in Frontier for Copilot in Excel and Cowork, help accountants spend less time on repetitive, manual tasks in the places they already work, including:
- Reconcile…
