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Generative AI Essentials for Finance and Accounting

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Overview

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This program explores Generative AI in Finance, equipping analysts, FP&A professionals, accountants, and finance leaders with the skills to automate workflows, generate deeper insights, and build AI-powered financial planning and reporting solutions. You’ll begin by mastering the foundations of Generative AI, prompt engineering basics, and advanced prompting techniques for financial analysis, structured outputs, and role-based financial scenarios, using tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Google AI Studio. You’ll then advance to AI-powered Financial Data Analysis and Reporting, applying Miro AI for FP&A workflow design, Notion AI for automated reporting and variance summaries, and NotebookLM for extracting insights, commentary, and analytical storylines from financial documents. Next, you’ll explore AI-driven Budgeting, Forecasting, and Scenario Planning, using ChatGPT and Excel AI plugins to build financial models, and Gamma AI to create dynamic, presentation-ready financial narratives. By the end of this program, you will be able to: - Define Generative AI fundamentals and how it applies to modern finance. - Use ChatGPT, Claude, and Google AI Studio to automate analysis and reporting. - Craft and refine prompts for structured outputs, forecasting, and scenario insights. - Build FP&A workflows, reports, and commentary with Miro AI, Notion AI, and NotebookLM. - Create AI-driven budgets, financial models, and scenarios using ChatGPT and Excel AI plugins. - Produce executive-ready financial presentations with Gamma AI. - Implement AI-driven financial operations for greater accuracy, speed, and strategic impact. This program is designed for FP&A analysts, finance managers, accountants, and business leaders aiming to integrate Generative AI into financial operations, planning, and reporting. A foundation in financial analysis, Excel, and business reporting will help maximize your learning experience. Learners require a reliable internet connection, a modern web browser, and access to commonly used AI and productivity tools; no specialized hardware or software installation is necessary. Join us to unlock the full potential of Generative AI in Finance, and transform the way you analyze data, build models, and deliver insights with next-generation AI systems.

Syllabus

  • Foundations of Generative AI for Finance and Accounting
    • Explore how AI enhances financial analysis, streamlines reporting, and reduces manual bottlenecks across accounting and FP&A tasks. Build a strong foundation in prompt engineering for finance and accounting using the SMART framework, learning how to craft effective prompts, structure financial outputs, and apply advanced techniques like chain-of-thought, role-based, and iterative prompting using ChatGPT, Claude, and Google AI Studio.
  • AI-Powered Financial and Accounting Data Analysis & Reporting
    • Learn to clean, normalize, and structure financial datasets for AI-assisted analysis. Use tools like Notion AI and NotebookLM to generate financial summaries, automate variance analysis, and create clear insights from complex numbers. Gain hands-on experience designing FP&A workflows visually in Miro AI, enabling faster, more accurate reporting and decision-ready deliverables.
  • AI-Driven Budgeting, Forecasting, and Financial Planning
    • Explore how Generative AI produces budget templates, adjusts assumptions dynamically, and identifies trends in financial performance. Use tools like Gamma AI and ChatGPT to build financial models, produce forecasts, analyze risk, and simulate stress scenarios. Develop the skills to design AI-powered planning systems that enhance accuracy, speed, and strategic decision-making across finance teams.
  • Course Wrap-Up and Assessment
    • This module is designed to assess an individual on the various concepts and teachings covered in this course. Evaluate your knowledge with a comprehensive graded quiz.

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