CEO and Co-Founder
Accrual
Cosmin Nicolaescu is the CEO and Co-Founder of Accrual, an AI-powered accounting platform. Accrual automates complex workflows, centralizes client data, and helps firms scale high-quality tax and assurance work without adding operational burden. Previously, Cosmin was CTO at Brex, where he helped scale the company from 40 to over 1,000 employees and hundreds of millions in annual revenue. Prior to his leadership at Brex, Cosmin was an early engineer and manager at Stripe, building global payments infrastructure and launching Stripe Terminal. He began his career at Microsoft, working on early versions of Azure and Office 365.
As accounting firms face mounting capacity constraints, increasing return complexity, and pressure to deliver faster turnaround times, many are looking to AI for answers. But moving from experimentation to real-world deployment raises important questions around trust, workflow integration, and maintaining professional standards.
In this case study, leaders from Armanino, a Top 20 accounting firm, will share how they partnered with Accrual to introduce AI directly into live tax operations.