AIW-204Applied AI at Work

Practical Application of AI in Finance

Forecasts, variance commentary and board packs can come together in hours instead of days. Get there with AI and still defend every number.

10 lessons About 3 hours 4 ALCs Certificate on completion

What you'll be able to do

  • Build AI-assisted forecasts with assumptions you can explain line by line
  • Draft management reporting faster while keeping the numbers traceable to source
  • Keep inside information and cash controls safe when AI tools are involved
  • Validate AI models and outputs before you rely on them
You finish with

Your team's AI finance playbook

What's in it. Approved tools and data classes including where inside information may go, then one row per use case with prompt rules, checks, benchmark, failure modes and owner, plus the forecast assumptions register.

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

FP&A analysts, finance managers, treasury staff and CFOs.

What's inside

  1. 1Where the requirement comes from 18 min
  2. 2How small teams and enterprises meet it 16 min
  3. 3Forecasting you can defend 22 min
  4. 4Analysis and management reporting 22 min
  5. 5Treasury, cash and payments 20 min
  6. 6Inside information and outside audiences 24 min
  7. 7Models, validation and tools 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 analyst and a CFO, so an assumptions tab with owners, hand-tested formulas and every figure checked before investors or lenders see it.
EnterpriseListed-company rules, so approved tools for inside information, central KPI definitions, forecast accuracy by unit and model validation for anything behind guidance.

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 your team's AI finance playbook?10 lessons, about 3 hours. Start whenever you're ready.
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