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AI for Accountants - Fundamentals
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AI for Accountants - Fundamentals

Learning AI for Accountants at all levels using Claude AI.
Created byShafraz Rashad
Last updated 7/2026
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What you'll learn

  • Write effective prompts that produce accurate, reliable outputs for finance professionals.
  • Prepare financial statements (P&L, Balance Sheet Cash Flows), FP&A analysis, prepare board backs using Claude AI
  • Use AI tools to automate routine accounting tasks — summarizing financial documents and performing variance analysis
  • Enhance thinking on how to use AI better for everyday finance tasks

Course content

3 sections • 8 lectures • 33m total length

  • Introduction to AI in Accounting Using Claude3:03

    Sets the scene: why AI is no longer optional for accountants, what you'll be able to do by the end, and the three things that make Claude a strong starting point — it reads long documents, it reasons, and it can act.

  • Structure of the Course1:36

    A roadmap of the full month-end cycle the course follows — trial balance, financial statements, FP&A, board packs, everyday tasks — plus the 50 free prompts you'll receive at the end.

  • How to Prompt in Claude3:46

    The prompt framework —  the prompt-design method used in every lesson. Learn to write prompts that produce reliable, review-ready finance output.

  • Month-End Close Using Claude7:23

    Walk through a structured month-end close: accruals, journals, and the sequence of close tasks — with Claude preparing and validating while you stay in control of what gets posted.

  • Prepare Financial Statements Using Claude4:20

    Convert a raw trial balance into a complete set of statements — P&L, balance sheet, equity, and cash flow statement — with figures that tie arithmetically and the logic laid out for review.

  • FP&A in Action: Actual vs Budget Analysis Using Claude6:04

    FP&A in action: Claude flags the variances, identifies the drivers, and drafts clear variance commentary you can take straight into a review meeting.

  • Preparing Board Packs Using Claude6:03

    Turn the numbers into a board-ready report — KPIs, charts, and an executive summary written in the language leadership actually wants to read.

Requirements

  • No pre-requisite. It is for Finance professionals at all levels.

Description

This is an AI for Accountants course, built by a fully qualified Chartered Accountant with 15+ years of real-world experience in finance and transformation.

It is for Accountants and finance professionals who wants to use AI on everyday tasks with no coding or data science background.

We start from the ground up: why AI matters for accountants specifically, and how to get genuinely useful results instead of vague, generic answers. You'll learn frameworks to better Prompt in AI tools that turns a rough request into clear, review-ready output — the single most important skill for working with AI well.

From there, you'll put it to work on real accounting tasks. You'll use Claude to

· help with the month-end close,

· prepare and explain financial statements,

· draft clear commentary and summaries, and;

· speed up the routine, repetitive work that eats your time — all while keeping a human eye on every number.

The guiding principle throughout is simple: the AI helps you prepare and draft; you stay in control and review everything before it counts.

By the end, you'll be comfortable using Claude confidently in your finance workflow, you'll know exactly how to prompt it for reliable results, and you'll have a solid foundation to build on. It's the essential first step before moving into more advanced automation and AI agents.


Who this course is for:

  • All levels of finance professionals who wants to learn AI from a qualified Chartered Accountant who has applied AI in complex real world scenarios
  • Accountants and finance professionals who want to automate month-end work — financial statements, variance analysis, and board packs — instead of grinding through it manually
  • Management accountants and FP&A analysts who spend hours on budget-vs-actual commentary and want AI to spot the variances, explain the drivers, and draft the narrative
  • Financial controllers and finance managers who need to turn a raw trial balance into a full P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow, and produce reports their CFO actually wants to read
  • Auditors and analysts who regularly wade through hundreds of pages of annual reports, contracts, or PDFs and want to summarise and analyse them in minutes
  • Excel-heavy finance users who want AI to write their formulas — and fix the broken ones.
  • Qualified and part-qualified accountants (CA, ACCA, CIMA, ACA, CPA) and finance students who want a practical, real-world edge that most textbooks and colleagues don't yet have
  • Anyone in a finance function who is curious about agentic AI and wants to see, with hands-on accounting use cases, how AI agents will reshape the way finance teams work

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