AIW-203Applied AI at Work

Practical Application of AI in Accounting

AI can match invoices, draft reconciliations and research accounting questions. Learn where it's safe to use in the close, and how to keep your controls and your auditors comfortable.

10 lessons About 3 hours 4 ALCs Certificate on completion

What you'll be able to do

  • Use AI in payables, reconciliations and the close with a person approving what matters
  • Spot invoice and payment fraud that AI makes more convincing
  • Keep journal entries and internal controls auditable when AI drafts the work
  • Check AI accounting and tax research before it reaches a memo
You finish with

An AI controls register for your finance team

What's in it. The approved tools and data classes, then one row per use case with what the tool does, what a person approves, the control and its evidence, ICFR relevance, the benchmark, how it fails and the owner.

You build it lesson by lesson, using your own organization, and submit it for your certificate. It's yours to keep and adapt.

Who it's for

Controllers, accountants, AP and AR teams, and finance leads at smaller companies who close the books.

What's inside

  1. 1Where the requirement comes from 18 min
  2. 2How small teams and enterprises meet it 16 min
  3. 3Payables, invoices and payment fraud 22 min
  4. 4Reconciliations and the close 22 min
  5. 5Journal entries and internal control 24 min
  6. 6Accounting research, memos and tax 22 min
  7. 7Data, tools and numbers 20 min
  8. 8Hands-on lab: small team choose one 22 min
  9. 9Hands-on lab: enterprise choose one 24 min
  10. 10Finish and submit your deliverable 20 min

Built for your size

The requirement is the same everywhere. How you meet it depends on who you have. You pick the lab that matches your organization.

Small team or early-stageSmall organization: one accountant and software with built-in AI, so a second reviewer for anything that moves money, callbacks on bank changes and a monthly look at learned rules.
EnterpriseAI tools inside SOX-tested controls, so separation of duties for entries, change management for model updates, evidence auditors can test and SOC 1 reports.

How you earn the certificate

Submit your finished deliverable, which is scored against a published rubric, and pass a short scenario quiz. Your certificate goes to your wallet and can be checked by anyone on the public register.

Ready to build an AI controls register for your finance team?10 lessons, about 3 hours. Start whenever you're ready.
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