On May 21, the launch ceremony of "Zhihui"—the first digital-intelligent accounting education platform—was held at the Liulin Campus of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE). The event also introduced the vertical-field large language model AccMind for accounting education and the AccEval evaluation suite for finance, accounting, and auditing LLMs. Over 100 attendees, including leaders and experts from the Sichuan Provincial Education Examination Authority, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Gaodun Education, iFlytek, as well as faculty and student representatives, witnessed this milestone. Liu Xiaobin, Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Accounting, presided over the ceremony.
At the opening ceremony, Ma Yongqiang, Vice President of SWUFE and member of the university’s Party Standing Committee, delivered a speech highlighting the institution’s recent achievements in reform and development, as well as the progress of its accounting discipline. He emphasized that the "Zhihui" platform represents a landmark achievement in interdisciplinary integration and digital-intelligent empowerment, showcasing SWUFE’s pioneering efforts in advancing AI-driven accounting education.
Developed jointly by SWUFE’s School of Accounting and School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, the Zhihui platform leverages the university’s academic strengths and faculty expertise. Built on the AccMind model, it features an integrated framework covering the full cycle of “teaching-learning-practice-assessment” and introduces three AI-powered teaching assistants: critical reasoning support, personalized error analysis, and learning behavior analytics. The platform provides 24/7 “AI Teaching Assistant” services for educators and generates customized learning plans for students, enabling closed-loop management of classroom instruction, practical training, and performance evaluation.
Professor Tang Xuesong, Dean of the School of Accounting, delivered a keynote titled “AI Empowering Accounting Education”, analyzing the opportunities and challenges of accounting education in the digital-intelligent era and outlining the platform’s mission. He explained that AccMind, refined through secondary pre-training based on the Qwen2.5-7B model, integrates 90,000 authoritative resources (approximately 620 million tokens) and 20,000 curated practice questions. Optimized via a training pipeline of secondary pre-training + supervised fine-tuning + reasoning capability distillation, AccMind outperformed leading commercial and open-source models in the AccEval benchmark, a specialized test suite comprising over 1,000 domain-specific questions.
Yang Xin, Associate Dean of the School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, detailed the platform’s technical development and core innovations. He highlighted that the AccEval suite fills a critical gap in evaluating accounting-focused LLMs, establishing a quantifiable benchmark for future model iterations and industry applications.
During a panel discussion on “Generative AI and Accounting Talent Development”, experts from academia and industry agreed that generative AI will reshape accounting education. Universities must accelerate reforms in curriculum design and pedagogical approaches, while enterprises should collaborate closely with institutions to drive innovation in nurturing digital-intelligent accounting professionals.
Coinciding with SWUFE’s centennial anniversary, the launch of Zhihui underscores the university’s disciplinary strengths and commitment to digital education innovation, marking a pivotal step in accounting education’s AI transformation. Moving forward, SWUFE plans to deepen collaboration with global institutions and industries, fostering convergence between financial education and cutting-edge technology to deliver the “SWUFE Solution” for digital-intelligent education.
