FinBen: Benchmarking LLMs Across 36 Financial Tasks — Implications for Accounting AI
FinBen evaluates 15 LLMs across 36 financial datasets at NeurIPS 2024, finding GPT-4 reaches 0.63 Exact Match on numerical QA and 0.54 on stock movement forecasting — near chance. Here is what those numbers mean for building a reliable accounting agent on a Beancount ledger.