Bo Li

Other people with similar names: Bo Li (Tsinghua, Baidu), Bo Li, Bo Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Bo Li, Bo Li (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Bo Li (Hebei), Bo Li (BeiHang), Bo Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Bo Li (NUS, Google), Bo Li (Vanderbilt, UIUC)

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2026

Financial management is high-stakes, where small errors can propagate into reporting deviations and costly downstream decisions, yet real-world workflows remain labor-intensive and fragmented, and existing automation supports only isolated steps rather than complete workflows. Large language models (LLMs) show promise in automating financial workflows, but current benchmarks lack domain-specific data, realistic workflow-level task design, and standardized workflow-level evaluation. To address these gaps, we present **FinMaster**, a benchmark for evaluating large language models on full financial management workflows spanning financial literacy, accounting, auditing, and consulting. **FinMaster** comprises three modules: *FinSim* generates synthetic datasets compliant with real-world accounting standards for diverse company types, enabling realistic evaluation without relying on proprietary financial records. *FinSuite* offers 183 tasks across core financial domains. *FinEval* provides a unified evaluation framework. Extensive experiments on state-of-the-art models including GPT-4o-mini, Claude-3.7-Sonnet, and DeepSeek-V3 reveal critical capability gaps in financial reasoning, with accuracy dropping from over 90% on basic tasks to 40% on complex scenarios requiring multi-step reasoning. This degradation reflects error propagation, where accuracy reaches 58% for single-metric calculations but decreases to 37% in multi-metric settings. **FinMaster** provides scalable and reproducible benchmarking for realistic end-to-end financial workflows, helping advance reliable deployment of LLMs in financial practice.