Insight on financial management, product updates and news from Capassa, gathered in one place.
“We need someone who has fallen flat on their face”
A veteran board colleague said something I've never forgotten: we need someone who has truly failed. It changed not just how I judge other leaders, but how I see my own hardest chapters.
Shadow AI: one in three use AI outside the firm's control
Everyone reads the new AI numbers as a growth curve. We read them as a governance curve pointing the wrong way: usage has outrun approval, which makes shadow AI a standardisation problem for accounting firms – not a technology problem.
Trust Is Not a Business Model – Accounting's 2027 Choice
The Norwegian accounting profession enjoys a stable, strong reputation and rising pride among its own people. Capassa reads the new survey as unused capital with an expiry date – because clients' AI use is growing faster than firms' service catalogues.
The accounting industry is sitting on a gold mine. Are you digging?
Most accounting firms agree advisory work is becoming more important. Few know how much of today's revenue actually comes from it. That paradox is worth understanding.
AI use has doubled: who gets paid for the time firms save?
More than half of Norwegian businesses now use AI, and the main benefit is time saved. In an hourly accounting model, saved time is simply a smaller invoice — unless that time is given a price of its own.
“You're way too aggressive on AI”
A comment from a colleague stopped me in my tracks. I took it as a compliment, not because the goal is to use as much AI as possible, but because I think the biggest risk right now is learning too slowly.
Do you know how strong your business really is?
Capassa Score gives you a simple picture of your company's financial strength, and you can now test your score for free with only the company name.
Capassa launches GRFS as part of the workflow
Capassa is launching GRFS functionality as an integrated part of the workflow, helping accountants collect documentation, follow up quality work and see what needs attention without having to remember everything.
Pride is rising faster than recognition: 88 versus 67
The Norwegian accounting industry's own pride climbs to 88 points, while its reputation among the public sits still at 67. The gap is not a communication problem — it is that advisory impact never becomes visible in the client's own numbers, and therefore never gets priced.
When everything is important, what do you do first?
The to-do list never ends, and AI is only making it longer. When everything feels important, how do you know what to actually do first?
Your budget isn't lying. But is it still telling the truth?
We spend a lot of time building budgets, but few of us ask the question halfway through the year: if you built it again today, would it look the same? A personal reflection on moving from a static budget to a rolling forecast.
Client numbers are falling for the first time. The growth mechanics are breaking.
Across the industry, Regnskap Norge's figures are being read as an AI story. Capassa reads them as something more fundamental: the budget mechanics that have funded Norwegian accounting firms for decades have lost their most important driver.
We haven't just launched a new website. We've clarified what we believe.
Over the summer we have built a new website for Capassa. It isn't about a prettier design, it's about becoming clearer on what we actually believe.
AI does not make your business smarter. Your decisions do.
A recent research paper points to something important: AI does not produce better results because it automates more, but because it enables the business to make better decisions.
55% use AI – but the gains don't show up in the accounts
AI adoption in Norwegian business has more than doubled in two years, yet the effects still cannot be traced in the accounts. That makes the accounting firm the only party able to determine whether the gains exist at all.
Digitalisation cuts hours – wage growth eats the gain
Norges Bank's latest business survey shows digital solutions are only just beginning to ease staffing needs – while wage expectations have been revised upwards. The outcome is settled in three metrics most companies review only once a year.
55% use AI – only 10% have integrated it into operations
More than half of Norwegian companies use artificial intelligence, but only one in ten say it is well integrated. That gap explains why the gains rarely show up in the accounts – and which figures actually capture them.
73% of CFOs believe AI will improve the business. But what does ‘improve’ actually mean?
A new Deloitte survey shows that 73 per cent of UK CFOs believe AI will improve business performance, up from 39 per cent two years ago. But what does ‘improve’ actually mean?
When did the report become more important than the decision?
A few weeks ago I was in a discussion with several accountants about how AI will change the profession. When I asked how many of the reports they send are actually used to take a decision, the room went quiet.
The best companies do not work faster. They work earlier.
It is easy to assume that growth is about pace. But among the companies I meet that succeed best, it is about something else: seeing what is about to happen, before it happens.
Everyone is buying accounting firms right now. But how will they actually make them more efficient?
Consolidation in the accounting sector does not sort itself out simply because more firms end up under the same umbrella. It takes something more.
3 signs your accountant is ready to become an adviser
Accounting matters, but in 2026 it is no longer enough. Here are three signs that you, or your accountant, are already on the way to becoming an adviser, without anyone having called it that yet.
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Financial control is the most underrated form of sustainability
When we talk about sustainability, most people think of climate and the environment. But the most common reason good workplaces disappear is far closer to home: businesses that lose control of their finances.
New integration: Azets Complete Regnskap
Capassa now connects to Azets Complete Regnskap. The system is built on the Unimicro engine, which Capassa already integrates with.
New integration: Eika Regnskap
Capassa now connects to Eika Regnskap. The system is built on the Unimicro engine, which Capassa already integrates with.
New integration: DNB Regnskap
Capassa now connects to DNB Regnskap. The system is built on the Unimicro engine, which Capassa already integrates with.
New integration: SpareBank 1 Regnskap
Capassa now connects to SpareBank 1 Regnskap. The system is built on the Unimicro engine, which Capassa already integrates with.
New integration: Unimicro
Capassa now connects to Unimicro, the accounting engine behind the systems of SpareBank 1, DNB, Eika and Azets, among others.
