AI-Driven Financial Management for SMEs
AI-Driven Financial Management for SMEs
Abstract- To function in today's society, people need access outgoing. As a result, effective financial management is
to information technology for every aspect of their lives, from crucial for businesses of all sizes, with tasks ranging from
personal interactions to the creation of goods and services. As deciding whether or not to increase production capacity to
the Internet and the In tandem with the expansion of the determining the best form of debt instrument to use to fund
country's information industry, an increasing number of
the investment. Financial management is responsible for a
businesses are opting to use an Automation of Financial Data
Management with AI. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a new wide range of tasks, including setting policies for the
technological science that aims to mimic, extend, and increase company's credit, stock, and cash levels, analysing potential
human intellect via the study and development of ideas, mergers, and allocating the yearly profit between
methodologies, technologies, and application systems. Artificial reinvestment and dividends. Due to the fact that all businesses
intelligence (AI), which may be seen as a method of teaching have finite funds to work with, financial management is the
computers to replicate and simulate human thinking patterns process of planning and overseeing how those funds are
and behaviours, has been the primary focus of data processing spent. Adequate financial practise must be implemented
in recent years. To better grasp the complexity of many guaranteeing the organization's resource efficiency and the
challenges in the financial services industry, AI has become a
desired outcomes are achieved. Cash flow management,
significant solution for creating accuracy and accountability.
This paper begins with a discussion of basic technology's profitability analysis, and risk management exhibit the
blueprint and shape, optimises it, investigates the real-world characteristics of kinds of things that are included in the
requirements of SMEs in terms of financial management, umbrella of "financial management."
concludes with system architecture and development
architecture, and finally concludes with performing Management of a company's finances entails budgeting,
hypothetical tests testing the system's functional performance. forecasting, allocating, monitoring, and reporting. Project
The test results show that the system accomplishes its intended financing entails not only the acquisition and doling out of
purposes and performs its primary operations, but that it still cash, but also the application of broad ideas and techniques
needs some tweaks and additions. Because of this, it is very
to the management of a project's financial resources and the
important that all the information used in managing money is
exact, correct, and reliable. valuation of its returns. Because of budgeting and other
methods to plan for and manage the company's future cash
Keywords: Small-Medium Enterprises, Financial flow so that it can meet its objectives. Wealth creation,
Management, Artificial Intelligence. revenue generation, and adequate return on investment are the
cornerstones of sound financial management.
I. INTRODUCTION
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financing of terrorism, identification of fraudulent activity, perception of risk has a negative impact on financial AI
and tracking of financial transactions are all areas where more services, with trust and influencer endorsement as
complex models are on the horizon, as is the implementation moderators. Businesses can learn from this research how to
of machine learning and AI to replace traditional approaches make financial technology services, like business intelligence
to solving the stochastic differential equations required for applications, seem less intimidating to potential
pricing and/or valuing derivatives. In addition to its success customers.[4]
in risk management, the same sort of model has proven useful
The incorporation of The incorporation of ideas and
in a variety of other contexts, sales optimization, CLV
technologies like the Internet of Things, cloud computing,
calculations, robo-advising, and other similar technologies.
and big data into everyday life has accelerated the
The study cites a variety of recent publications by the Federal
development of big data technology. better able to process
Reserve and other central banks, financial regulators and
corporate financial data. Additionally, Due to the increased
supervisors, and other relevant organisations and groups. Its
importance of financial crisis warning in corporate
goal is to provide actionable guidance for developing a risk-
management, investors and businesses have paid more
based governance and testing framework for the
attention to the role it plays. competitiveness between
aforementioned model types, and it examines the utilisation
businesses. This investigation selected a variety of financial
of cutting-edge technologies, methodologies, and platforms
metrics using techniques from big data mining in the IoT. All
to usher in accountable, dependable, explainable, auditable,
financial indicators were analysed, and principles were
and managed AI and ML. in the real world. We also see some
discovered that may be used to choose more accurate
relevance for this study Besides the Banking industry, in
indications of financial risk. Lastly, Using the FCM (fuzzy
particular where "high risk" in light of the most recent EU
cluster method), parallel rules, and the parallel mining
publication on AI, also known as the EU Artificial
algorithm, we were able to select the most frequent fuzzy
Intelligence Act, models according to the aforementioned EU
association rules that also meet the minimum fuzzy
survey are worried.[2]
credibility option set. Finally, the proposed technique in the
work was validated by selecting appropriate data from listed
The phenomenal potential of AI (artificial intelligence)
businesses to examine corporate financial risks. [5]
has made it a hot topic in the IT world. This study analyses
the impact of supervised AI methods, i.e., machine learning Evidence is crucial in the field of visual forensics. If a
methods, on Pakistani non-financial firms as its primary picture is evidence, then authenticating it is the most
subject. real-world implementation of AI methods for the important part of visual forensics. Copy-Move Forgery is a
precise forecasting in business, which will ultimately result popular kind of digital image fraud in which a small portion
in the mechanisation of corporate risk management. In this of a picture is copied and pasted somewhere inside the same
research, we built machine learning algorithms employing image. counterfeit dance steps There is a need for detection
four different methods— To analyse financial ratios for in forensics, law enforcement, and other fields. The suggested
accurate risk assessment and the automation of corporate risk technique begins with dividing a grayscale picture into
management, various machine learning algorithms (such as overlapping pieces. Every overlapping unit yields stable
random forest, decision tree, naive Bayes, and KNN) have under exponential growth and rotation Qualities of the Polar
been developed. This study will employ a secondary method Complex Transform. Histogram of Gradient Directional
of data collection. We did this by collecting yearly data on Patterns is then used to further decrease the dimensionality of
nonfinancial enterprises in Pakistan from 2006 to 2020 and the retrieved features. The rows of the histogram feature
then analysing and testing this data using Python. Our matrix are compared for similarities. Through the use of
findings demonstrate that AI methods can reliably estimate windowing and morphological operators, we may get rid of
risk with small error bars, with the random forest method spurious matches. The effectiveness of the strategy is
performing the best of all the methods we tested.[3] measured by using recall rate, precision, and F1 score.
Outstanding results are achieved even when the tested image
As the banking and finance industries have developed, so has been subjected to post-processing attacks. All other
too has the ability to automate a wide variety of services. performance metrics are also excellent, and the recall rate is
With AI's use in investment management on the rise, it's clear the best reported in the literature. [6]
that more and more people will be opting for services that are
III. METHODOLOGY
entirely digital in the near future. The purpose of this research
was to determine if there was a moderating effect between 3.1 System Analysis
risk perception and the use of financial AI services and, if so,
what that effect was. Three hundred customers in Jordan who It's undeniable that as the world's economy and
have used financial AI services were recruited via a technological capabilities advance, people will become
questionnaire distribution and a subsequent purposive increasingly reliant on computers and the Internet to provide
sampling process. Data from 220 completed surveys were the contemporary lifestyle they seek. However, a robust
analysed using structural equation modelling implemented in computer system is required to actually achieve excellent
partial least squares (PLS 3.3.6). The findings reveal that the network administration. After doing extensive research on the
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specific What small and medium-sized businesses need from authenticated, he will have access to the system's many
their financial managers, this article develops a novel features. Layers of display for views, models, controllers, and
approach to this important field. The system makes use of other components make up much of an MVC framework.
conventional computers and their fast processing capabilities indicates user input and is accountable for implementing the
to standardise management by inputting information and UI of the system. Business data is mostly processed at the
monetary data into them during actual work, adhering to the model layer. All requests from the user are handled by the
idea of pragmatism. Management of master data, vouchers, control layer, which then makes a call to a system's model
and sensitive information issues like Authentication of users layer's processing interface to get an appropriate response.
and delegation of administrative privileges within a system Figure 3.1 displays the overarching The monetary
have been resolved thanks to an in-depth study and research management system of the organisation is functionally
into the real scenario[10]-[12]. structured in this work. Figure 3.1 depicts how Spring is
utilised in the architecture design of the system to coordinate
3.2 Data speed and conveniences the many levels of processing and business logic. The
system's functional components are described in technical
The robust daily processing query feature of the basic depth by the Struts presentation layer, which is then separated
information system allows users to do simple queries, fuzzy by Spring. A session factory is used in the Hibernate
queries, and print reports. We found the report to be practical architecture for unified database operations. Data exchanges
and simple to implement. Financial managers' statistics needs and manipulations that are particularly complicated can be
can be met by the system if it is configured properly. System handled using Hibernate's transaction processing system.
performance requirements relate to the needs for
dependability and scalability of system functionality and From Analysis perception,
complement system functional requirements, which have a
more profound impact on the use environment and business ∑ = (1)
specifications of the system.
Presence of analysis Layer,
3.3 Responsive Capacity
–( )
Although this paper's proposed management system ∑ = (2)
( )
covers just a limited spectrum of administration, it
encompasses a wide variety of commodities. The necessity
for a fast-response database and server becomes more ∑ = ( )× (3)
pressing when several users are simultaneously using the
system. Moreover, the system must regulate reaction times The goal is to carry out and finish different activities of
within a suitable range because of the constant flow of monetary administration software of SMEs through the
business data. services of web services, in accordance with the concept of
philosophy of service oriented architecture (SOA) and object-
3.4 Proposed Design oriented design (OOP).
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