By Australian Financial Review
Publication Date: 2026-05-12 22:55:00
This cyclical model determines how many SMBs experience compliance – reactive, time-bound and detached from the daily activity that generates the underlying data. Artificial intelligence is beginning to change this by moving compliance from a periodic task to a continuous process embedded in the workflow itself.
Paul Robson, Managing Director of MYOB.
“One of the big things we’re doing is making it an always-on feature,” says Robson. “Because the software needs information from your head, it asks you for it.”
In practice, this means that tasks like BAS preparation can move from a regular exercise to something that is created in the background as transactions take place. Instead of reconstructing information after the fact, systems can prompt for input at the point of activity.
MYOB’s AI BAS support agent is an example of applying this approach. It uses transaction data and user input to prepare a position that is ready for review at the end of a reporting…
