Artificial Intelligence: AI for Accounting and Finance

Course Overview

AI for Accounting and Finance introduces you to smart tools reshaping the world of finance. You’ll explore how artificial intelligence is changing accounting, from analyzing large data sets quickly to building dashboards and spotting errors in seconds. This practical, beginner-friendly guide shows you how AI can boost your productivity, improve accuracy, and help you stand out at work.

You’ll learn to extract data from receipts and PDFs, create AI-powered visuals in Excel, and use tools like ChatGPT for smarter financial insights. The course also covers fraud detection, risk analysis, and using natural language to ask questions and get answers from your data.

By the end, you'll have hands-on skills to use AI tools in real-world accounting tasks. Whether you're reviewing transactions or supporting management with smarter reports, you’ll be ready to apply AI confidently and work more efficiently in today’s evolving finance world.

Learning Objectives:

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Use AI tools to quickly analyze large financial data sets.
• Extract numbers and text from receipts and documents using OCR.
• Create dashboards and charts in Excel using AI-powered features.
• Write effective prompts for natural language queries in AI tools.
• Detect unusual transactions and errors using AI for fraud detection.
• Use ChatGPT to understand financial risks and business policies.
• Convert handwritten financial data into editable digital content.
• Build a basic risk register to help quantify and manage risks.