UiPath, a business orchestration and automation platform provider, and BDO USA, an accounting and advisory firm, expanded their collaboration to develop artificial intelligence software for corporate finance departments. The initiative focuses on creating software agents to manage risk management and enterprise compliance functions related to the Office of the CFO.
The partnership introduces the Agentic Internal Audit Solution Accelerators, a set of proprietary tools designed to modernize IT Application Controls and IT General Controls. These systems replace manual testing cycles with agent-driven execution and professional review procedures to safeguard sensitive workflows. The software operates across enterprise resource planning systems and cloud computing environments. It performs continuous monitoring while collecting evidence and flagging exceptions for human review.
"Our relationship with UiPath goes beyond a traditional technology partnership,” said Eskander Yavar, National Managing Principal, Advisory for BDO. “We are a customer, a consultant, and a go-to-market partner, and we are investing together because our clients need something the market has yet to give them: a path from point-in-time, labor-intensive control activities to a continuous, intelligent control environment. The accelerators combine the UiPath platform with BDO's controls and risk consulting experience. Together, we are helping clients harness the power of AI, business orchestration, and automation to redefine what is possible.”
The joint software addresses the full lifecycle of internal controls. For access management, the platform validates user provisioning and monitors the segregation of duties across connected systems. The technology automates evidence collection for change management workflows and deployment procedures. In daily operations, the software agents test backup protocols and incident management controls. During application testing, the system executes control test scripts and packages the resulting evidence with direct mapping to internal audit objectives. The platform then generates evidence trails and exception reports to support stakeholder review and regulatory defensibility.
“Controls monitoring, testing, and compliance activities represent some of the most consequential — and most manually intensive — domains in the enterprise. Partnering with BDO to bring business orchestration and automation to ITAC and ITGC testing means organizations can expand control coverage, improve consistency, and reduce manual effort across complex application environments. The UiPath and BDO Agentic IA Solution Accelerators are designed to help clients move toward continuous, intelligent control monitoring without the unsustainable workload that has defined traditional approaches for decades,” said Andrada Morar, Senior Vice President, Customer Experience for UiPath.
